Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process

List of Contributors

contributors ix RENÉE ASHLEY, MA, is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry), The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist ’s Dream, and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. A contributing editor to the Literary Review, she is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. The latest two books of poems by david budbill, mdiv, are While We’ve Still Got Feet (2005) and Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse (1999). Boxholder Records released Songs for a Suffering World: A Prayer for Peace, a Protest against War, with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake in 2003, and Zen Mountains–Zen Streets: A Duet for Poet and Improvised Bass, with the music of William Parker, in 1999. Also in 1999, Chelsea Green Publishing Company republished a revised, expanded version of Judevine, Budbill’s collected poems. jack coulehan, md, is a professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Stony Brook University, where he directs the medical humanities and bioethics program. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently Medicine Stone (2002), and written or edited several other books, notably The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice (5th ed., 2006) and Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians (2006). Coulehan’s honors and awards include National Endowment for the Humanities and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, the American College of Physicians Award for Poetry, the American Nurses’ Association Book Award, the Merck Award at Yaddo, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Humanities Award. The most recent books by denise duhamel, mfa, are Two and Two (2005), Mille et un sentiments (2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (2001). Her work has been anthologized widely, including in six editions of Best American Poetry. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she teaches creative writing at Florida International University in Miami. Living in Jacksonville, Florida, caterina eppolito, ma, mfa, is a poet and licensed psychotherapist who earned a Herbert Fellowship in creative writing from the University of Florida and was a professor of clinical psychology at St. Michael’s College, Vermont. She was a semifinalist in the Nation’s poetry contest, and in the following year her poem “Bedlam Nursery Rhyme” appeared in the Nation. She is working on a book about eating disorders entitled Through the Looking Glass and Back. Poems by vanessa haley, mfa, msw, have appeared in Reading Poetry: An Anthology of Poems (1988) and in literary journals such as Poetry, the Gettysburg Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Robert Pinsky recently selected one of her poems for the 2006 Poetry Prize (Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose), and she was the first recipient of the John Haines Poetry Award from Ice-Floe: International Poetry of the Far North (2001). Her book of poems, The Logic of Wings (http://www.cherry-grove.com/haley.html), was published ten years after she left a tenured associate professorship in English to become a psychotherapist. andrew hudgins, mfa, is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University. He has published six books of poetry and one book of literary criticism, and his essays have appeared in the American Scholar, the Washington Post Magazine, the Hudson Review , and many others. He was recently made a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. thomas krampf is the author of four collections of poetry. He has read his work both nationally and internationally, including on National Public Radio and at the 2006 Printemps des Poetes festival in La contributors x Rochelle, France, with leading poets from France and Iran. His fifth book, Poems to My Wife and Other Women, is scheduled for publication in fall 2007. barbara f. lefcowitz, phd, has published nine books of poetry as well as poems, stories, and more than five hundred essays in journals. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Also a visual artist, she lives in Bethesda , Maryland. gwyneth lewis, dphil, was the first National Poet of Wales. An award-winning poet, she has published six books of...