Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving

Contributors

277 Contributors Dick Allen is a poet whose numerous poetry collections include Present Vanish: Poems (2008) and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (1997). Until his retirement he was Director of Creative Writing and Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport (CT). In 2010 he was named poet laureate of Connecticut and will serve in that position through 2015. Chana Bloch is a poet and translator of works in Hebrew. Her collections of poems are The Secrets of the Tribe (1981), The Past Keeps Changing (1992), Mrs. Dumpty (1998), and Blood Honey (2009). She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College. Anne Brashler was a short story writer and poet. Her stories are collected in Getting Jesus in the Mood (1991) and her poems in The Talking Poems (1994). She was one of two artists who conducted a residency at Bell Elementary School in Chicago in 1990 through the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-in-­ Education Artist Residency Program. Brashler died in 2013. Rosellen Brown has written novels, short stories, and poetry. Among her novels are Tender Mercies (1978), Civil Wars (1984), and Half a Heart (2000). Her novel Before and After (1992) was made into a film of the same name in 1996. A collection of stories, Street Games, was published in 1991. She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Ethan Canin is a writer and physician. Among his novels are America, America (2008), and For Kings and Planets (2010). His story collections include Emperor of the Air (1998) and The Palace Thief (1994). He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. Raymond Carver was a major American short-story writer and poet. His most famous story is “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” The poem in this volume is from his collection Ultramarine, published in 1986. Carver died in 1988. Eugenia Collier is an African-American writer and educator. She taught English at colleges and universities in the Baltimore-Washington area until her retirement in 1996. With Richard A. Long, she co-edited 278 Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving Afro-American Writing (1992), and she is the author of Breeder and Other Stories (1993). In 2010 she published a novel, Beyond the Crossroads. Sarah Day has published several collections of poems, most recently Grass Notes (2009). Her poems have been set to music by British composer Anthony Gilbert. She was poetry editor of Island Magazine for seven years, teaches English and Creative Writing, and has been a council member of the Literature Board of the Australia. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania. James Dickey was a poet from Georgia who served in the US Air Force in World War II. From 1996–1998 he was the Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a position that later became Poet Laureate. His bestselling novel Deliverance (1970) was made into a movie. Among his poetry collections are Buckdancer’s Choice (1965) and The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1945–1992 (1992). Dickey died in 1997. Mark Doty is a poet and Professor/Writer in Residence at Rutgers University . His book Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. He has published eight books of poems and four volumes of nonfiction prose. His most recent work is A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (2013), an illustrated bestiary with Darren Waterston. Tereze Glück is the author of May You Live in Interesting Times (1995), a collection of stories. She is now a goldsmith and jewelry designer in New York. Allegra Goodman is a novelist and short-story writer who grew up in Hawaii and now lives in Cambridge, MA. Her novels include The Family Markowitz (1996), Kaaterskill Falls (1998), Paradise Park (2001), and Intuition (2006). Her most recent novel is The Cookbook Collector (2010). She has also written a science fiction book for young readers, The Other Side of the Island (2008). Mary Gordon has written novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays about religion. Among her novels are Final Payment (1978), The Other Side (1989), Pearl (2005), and The Love of My Youth (2011). Her story collections include Temporary Shelter (1987) and The Stories of Mary Gordon (2006). Her memoirs include The Shadow Man: A Daughter Searches for her Father (1996) and Circling My Mother (2007). She is a...