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  • Notes on Contributors

Miriam Berkley is best-known as a literary photographer . She has an extensive archive of international author portraits, is widely published, and has been the portrait photographer for the Sewanee Writers Conference since its inception. For the last five years she has been photographing her hometown of New York City and exhibiting her urban images in a variety of venues.

Paula Bonnell's most recent poetry collection is Airs & Voices. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Review, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Mitchell Breitwieser is professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature.

Ward Briggs is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. His edition of the complete poems of James Dickey will appear in Spring 2013.

Jack L. B. Gohn, when not practicing law in Baltimore, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and ocasional book reviewer. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The National Catholic Reporter, and on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra website.

John Meredith Hill lives with cultural anthropologist Ann Maxwell Hill in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. He teaches at the University of Scranton.

Jefferson Hunter, The Hopkins Review's film critic, is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.

William H. Irwin is Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto.

Stephen Kampa has poems in River Styx, Subtropics, Poetry Northwest, and Birmingham Review. His first book of poems is entitled Cracks in the Invisible.

Mela Kirkpatrick teaches English and creative writing at the Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina. [End Page 299]

William Logan's edition of the forgotten poem Guy Vernon, by John Townsend Trowbridge, will be published this spring by the University of Minnesota Press, and a volume of new poems, Madame X, by Penguin next fall.

Jay Rogoff, The Hopkins Review's dance critic, published The Art of Gravity, his book of dance-related poems in 2011. His new poetry collection, Venera, will appear from the LSU Press next year. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he teaches at Skidmore College and covers the New York City ballet season for The Saratogian newspaper and Ballet Review.

Daniel Saalfeld's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southwest Review, The Seattle Review, The New York Quarterly, Gargoyle, and Poet Lore. A Fulbright Scholar recipient, he has lectured in Russia on American poetry.

Danielle Sellers is the author of a poetry collection, Bone Key Elegies, and her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Mississippi.

Floyd Skloot's most recent books are the poetry collection The Snow's Music (LSU Press, 2008), the short story collection Cream of Kohlrabi (Tupelo Press, 2011), and the memoir The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

William Jay Smith is a former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress 1968-1970. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, children's verses, criticism, translations, and memoirs. His latest memoir, My Friend Tom, The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (from which his essay in the present issue is taken), was published earlier this year by the University Press of Mississippi.

Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is King's Dream (2009).

George Williams's Stories and essays have appeared in Boulevard and Gulf Coast among others. He has published a novel, Degenerate, and a collection of stories, Gardens of Earthly Delight. In 2011 he was a recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. He teaches at the Savannah College of Art and Design. [End Page 300]

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