Contributors

C o n t r ib u t o r s A u t h o r s Susan Kollin is Assistant Professor of English at Montana State University. Her articles on gender, ecology, and the Western have appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies and The Canadian Review of American Studies. She is completing a book titled Nature’s State: Alaska and the Ecobgies ofNation­ alism, which will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Andrew Wingfield is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at George Mason University. His work has appeared in the Antioch Review and So to Speak and is forthcoming in Pleiades. His recently completed first novel, Hear Him Roar, is currently in search of a publisher. A r t i s t s Robert Dawson and writer Gray Brechin won the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in 1992 for a proposal to look at California thirty years after the publication of Ray Dasmann’s classic of the conservation movement, The Destruction of California. The result, Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream (University of California Press 1999), examines the close relationship between California’s environmental and social history, exploring the destruction of California’s environment through economic development while focusing on individuals and organizations attempting to deal with environmental issues on a grassroots level. A photographic exhibition from the project was displayed at the Oakland Museum early in 1999. Tom Killion began making woodcuts as a teen, when he first combined his love for Japanese landscape prints with his eye for the coastal forms of his native California. He studied fine printing at UC Santa Cruz and holds a Ph.D. in African history from Stanford. Via his Quail Press in Santa Cruz, he has published several illustrated books, including 28 Views ofMt. Tamalpais and The Coast of California. Currently teaching at San Francisco State Univer­ sity, he is completing a hand-printed book, The High Sierra ofCalifornia, includ­ ing excerpts from the Sierra journals of Gary Snyder. Edgar A. Payne (1883-1947) was part of California Impressionism, also called California plein-air painting, a movement that lasted roughly from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Great Depression. The unique lighting conditions on the California coast provided much inspiration. After World War I, less romantic styles emerged. Edgar Payne’s legacy became the mission of his widow, Elsie Palmer Payne, who was a distin­ guished painter herself (and featured in WAL 33.4). ...