Notes on Contributors
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Robert Bagg has published several books of poetry, most recently The Tandem Ride and Other Excursions: Poems 1955-2010 (Spiritus Mundi Press, 2010) and translations of plays by Sophocles and Euripides. He is currently writing a critical biography of Richard Wilbur.
Phyllis Berger is the creator and administrator of the John Hopkins University Photography Program and is also an instructor in the Maryland Institute College of Art School of Continuing Studies. She says of her Irish photographs, "In Ireland I think about the geometry of space as I walk in the footsteps of an ancient civilization . . . In the lunar landscape of the Burren, . . . nature is the sculptor of a fantastic stone pavement . . . I am profoundly influenced by the pictorial tradition of photography, and in my work I seek to emphasize the painterly qualities inherent within that genre."
Siobhan Campbell's third full collection of poems is Cross-Talk published by Seren Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, Magma, and Agenda. Founder of the Military Writing Network, she works with veteran writers as well as distance students in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Kingston University. She lives in Washington, D. C.
Peter Cooley is Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. Carnegie Mellon University Press will release his ninth book Night Bus to the Afterlife in 2014.
R. L. Friedman is a freelance writer living in New York City and an advisory editor of The Hopkins Review.
Jack L. B. Gohn, when not practicing law, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and an occasional book reviewer.
Jefferson Hunter, The Hopkins Review's film critic, is the Helen and Laura Sledd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.
Stephen Kampa works as a musician in eastern Florida. His first book of poems, Cracks in the Invisible, received the 2011 gold medal from the Florida Book Awards. [End Page 588]
X. J. Kennedy has two recent books from the Johns Hopkins University Press: In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems and a translation, The Bestiary of Guillaume Apollonaire.
Stanley Plumly's most recent book is Orphan Hours (W. W. Norton, 2012). He is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Jay Rogoff writes about dance for The Hopkins Review and Ballet Review. He has published four books of poems, most recently, The Art of Gravity (LSU 2011). LSU will bring out his new collection, Venera, 2014. He teaches at Skidmore College and spent fall 2012 in London, where he's been reporting on the dance scene for The Hopkins Review.
Paul Ruffin is Distinguished Professor of English and Texas State University System Regents Professor at Sam Houston State University, where he edits The Texas Review and directs the Texas Review Press. He is the author of two novels, five collections of short stories, four books of essays, and seven collections of poetry.
David Wagoner has published twenty books of poems, most recently After the Point of No Return, (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). He has also published ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Ruth Lilly Prize in 1991, six yearly prizes from Poetry, two yearly prizes from Prairie Schooner, and the Arthur Rense Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for twenty-three years. He edited Poetry Northwest from 1966 to 2002, and he is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington. He teaches at the low-residency MFA program of the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop.
Baron Wormser is the author or coauthor of a dozen books, mostly of poetry. [End Page 589]
