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from the University of Baroda in English and ancient Indian culture. She is currently professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. Among her publications are The Holder 0/ the World, Jasmine, and The Tiger's Daughter, and two collections of stories, Darkness and The Middleman and other Stories, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1988. She has also been the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim, and a Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship. William Cotter Murray was born in County Clare, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1949. He studied at St. Flannan's College and took his B.A. at Southern Connecticut State in 1956. He attended the Writers' Workshop in 1956 and received his M.A. in English in 1961. He taught in the fiction workshop from 1965 to 1969 and in the English department of the University of Iowa from 1958 until his retirement in 1992. He is the author of two novels, the Meredith Award-winning Michael Joe and A Long Wayfrom Home. His most recent work is the collection of stories, Irish Fictions. Philip F. O'Connor was educated at San Francisco University and San Francisco State College. He took his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1963. He taught for more than thirty years in the creative writing program at Bowling Green University in Ohio. His first collection of stories, Old Morals, Small Continents, Darker Times, won the Iowa School of Letters Award in Short Fiction in 1971 and was recently reissued in a third printing. His first novel, Stealing Home, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and an American Book Award nominee for best first novel. Two other novels, Difending Civilization and Finding Brendan, were Pulitzer Prize nominees. He has three times been a member of the Pulitzer Prize Fiction Jury and was chair in 1994. Steven D. Salinger was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has a B.S. from Cornell University, 1963, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, 1965. He lived for seventeen years in St. Thomas and for five years taught English at the College of the Virgin Islands. Subsequently he launched two tourist magazines and founded a jewelry business. Moving to New York in 1982, he established The Physicians' Travel & Meeting Guide, a maga288 NOT E SON CON T RIB U TOR S zine for doctors. Warner Books has just published his first novel, Behold the Fire. W. D. Snodgrass served in the U.S. Navy before coming to the Writers ' Workshop in 1946. Before leaving in 1955, he earned a B.A., an M.A., and an M.F.A. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his first book of poems, Heart's Needle. He has also received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Poetry Society of America citation, a Guinness Award (U.K.), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Centennial Medal of Romania. Among his other works are After Experience, The Fuhrer Bunker, and Selected Poems I957-I987. He has taught at Cornell University, Wayne State University, the University of Rochester, Syracuse, and the University of Delaware. Richard Stern attended the Writers' Workshop from 1952 to 1954, when he received his Ph.D. He has taught at the University of Chicago since 1956. His seventeen books include the novels Golk, Other Men's Daughters, and Shares, A Novel in Ten Parts. Noble Rot: Stories I949-88 was the 1989 Chicago Sun-Times Book of the Year in fiction, and A Sistermony won the 1995 Heartland Award for Non-Fiction Book ofthe Year. In 1985 Stern was given the Award of Merit for the Novel by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Lewis Turco founded and was the director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY-Oswego. Turco retired in 1996 after thirty-five years of teaching and is now the proprietor of the antiquarian Mathom Bookshop in Dresden, Maine. He is the 1997 winner with his Italian translator, Joseph Alessia, of the Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize for his collection A Book o/"Fears. His books include The Shifting Web: New and Selected Poems and The Public Poet: Five Lectures on the Art and Craft 0/"Poetry. He attended the Writers' Workshop in 1959-1960, and received his M.A. in 1962. Constance Urdang was born in New York City and moved to St. Louis in 1960...

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