Notes on Contributors
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Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the author, editor, or co-editor of a number of books about modern American literary figures, among them Conversations with Thornton Wilder (1992), The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder (2008), and Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives (2013).
Susan de Sola’s poems have appeared in American Arts Quarterly, Measure, Ambit (U.K.), and River Styx, among others. She is a David Reid Poetry Translation Prize winner, and her photos have been published in a photography/poetry chapbook, Little Blue Man, in collaboration with Clive Watkins (Seabiscuit Press).
Susanna Heller was born in Manhattan, grew up in Montreal, Canada, and has been living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn since 1981. Among her awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, and her work is included in many public and private collections. She is represented by Magnan Metz Gallery in New York, and Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto
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, and his most recent project is a series of hour-long videos on the art of film.
Mary Jones’s fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Indiana Review, Santa Monica Review, Median, Epiphany, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity. She hold an MFA from Bennington College and lives in Los Angeles where she teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension.
Lynn Levin’s latest collection of poems is Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Press, 2013). She is also the co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Texture Press, 2013). She teaches at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Mariani is the author of biographies of William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is completing a biography of Wallace Stevens for Simon & Schuster. His latest book of poetry is Epitaphs for the Journey (2012). [End Page 143]
Jean McGarry is the author of eight works of fiction, most recently Ocean State, a story collection. She is co-chair of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Ronald Paulson is Professor Emeritus of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Luc Phinney has worked as a carpenter, contractor, site engineer, landscape architect, architect, poetry lecturer, and parks worker. His designs for buildings and landscapes have been completed in Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Wyoming. While living in Montana he designed and built, with his architect-wife, a house made from the boles of firs, steel, and travertine. His first book of poems, Compass, received the T. S. Eliot Prize and is forthcoming from Truman State University Press.
Jay Rogoff’s new book of poems, Venera, which includes “No Dream” will appear this spring from the LSU Press. His previous books include The Art of Gravity (2011) and The Long Fault (2008). The Hopkins Review’s dance critic, Rogoff lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, and teaches at Skidmore College.
Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, most recently The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction. Her story collection, Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, AGNI, and The Harvard Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, and elsewhere. She live in Corvallis, Oregon, where she teaches at the Oregon State University.
Callie Siskel teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Criterion, Able Muse, Passages North, and Tar River Poetry.
Floyd Skloot will publish two new books in 2014–Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press) and Close Reading, a collection of poems from Eyewear Publishers in the U.K.
Rose Styron is working on a new book of poems that “are an elegy for a marriage (mine!).”
Karen Wilkin is an...
