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319 , author of The Green Suit and Judge, worked at The New Yorker for ten years after receiving his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His stories have been published in Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South, among other publications. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. was born in Detroit in 1975, attended the University of Michigan, and then earned his M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was published in 2005. He is currently the executive director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. ’s prize-winning stories have been published in Zoetrope: All Story, The Georgia Review, The Antioch Review, and elsewhere . She has received a Pushcart nomination, and in 2003 was given a Wisconsin Arts Board grant for fiction. Benbow is presently working on a novel, Boy into Panther. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, and numerous other magazines and anthologies, including Western Wind and Poetry Daily Anthology. Her collection Stalking Joy won the Walt McDonald First Book Award. Benbow has just completed a second book of poems, Believing Your Eyes. grew up in Superior, Wisconsin. He teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in the port city where his Polish emigré grandparents settled. The author of four story collections, Time between Trains, Polonaise, Children of Strangers, and Twelve Below Zero, he has been awarded the Creative Arts Award from the Polish American Historical Association and has twice won the Anne Powers BookLength Fiction Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. In 2002 he was named the R. V. Cassill Fellow in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. ’s most recent books are We Can Still Be Friends, a novel, and History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry. Her collection The Society of Friends, from which “As It Is in Heaven” is taken, received the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for a j Contributors Distinguished Volume of Short Stories in 2000. Her fiction has been represented in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South. She also holds the Hanes Prize in poetry. She is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and sometimes serves as the Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Humanities Center of the University of Alabama–Huntsville. lives in Madison and writes for Isthmus. Her poetry book, Madame Deluxe, was winner of the National Poetry Series . She has been previously published in the Atlanta Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Southern Poetry Review. Her work also appears in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Her first novel, Maybe Baby, was published in 2004. is the author of Lambda Literary Award–nominated Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture. His work has also appeared in the anthologies Obsessed and Wonderlands. His first novel is scheduled to be published in 2005. He now lives in Pennsylvania. lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper’s magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, also a selection of the Oprah Book Club, was an international bestseller. Her novel The Short History of a Prince was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, won the Heartland Prize for Fiction, and was short-listed for Britain’s Orange Prize. Her most recent novel is Disobedience. is professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of two books, Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family and Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon. His work has been anthologized in Best American Sport Writing 1999, American Nature Writing 1997, The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska, and The River Reader. His articles and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Audubon, Manoa, Outside, and The Missouri Review. He is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship , the BANTA Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, and the Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professorship. 320 Contributors 321 Contributors was born in France and raised in Florida. She is the...
