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  • Contributors

THIERRY ALET, who studied at the internationally known SERMAC in Martinique, was born in Guadeloupe. He has also studied at Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Fort-de-France, and Paris. Currently he lives in New York City.

NUAR ALSADIR, a 1995–96 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, has published in Agni, Phoebe, and Fine Madness. She is currently studying for a doctorate in English at New York University.

MÁRCIO BARBOSA, who is also a journalist, is author of Paixões crioulas, a novel. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

VERA BEATTY, a member of the Dark Room Collective, received the M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn.

CALVIN BEDIENT is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Architects of the Self: George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster (1972), Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R.S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W.S. Graham (1974), In the Heart's Last Kingdom: Robert Penn Warren's Major Poetry (1984), and He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist (1986).

JOANNE BRAXTON is author of Sometimes I Think of Maryland (poems) and Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition; and editor of The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

WESLEY BROWN is author of two novels, Tragic Magic and Darktown Strutters; two plays, Boogie Woogie and Booker T and Life During Wartime; co-editor of a collection of short fiction, Imagining America; and an autobiographical collection, Visions of America. He is editor of The Teachers and Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass. He teaches creative writing and literature at Rutgers University.

ALESSANDRO CESAR (Alessandro César Pereira dos Santos) was born in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where he now lives and works. His work has been exhibited at various museums and galleries in Brazil and Germany. In 1989 he graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Bahia, where he is now a substitute professor of drawing and engraving.

CARROL F. COATES, an associate editor of Callaloo, was recently named Editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies (the official organ of the Association of Haitian Studies). He has published translations of two Haitian novels—René Depestre's The Festival of the Greasy Pole (1990) and Paul Anvers's Of Rice and Blood (1994)—and exile memories of Jean-Bertran Aristide, Dignity (1996). He teaches French grammar and stylistics, Francophone literature, and translation at the State University of New York in Binghamton, and is the series editor of “CARAF Books” (literary translations from African and Caribbean literature in French).

WANDA COLEMAN, poet and journalist, is author of Imagoes, Heavy Daughter Blues, A War of Eyes and Other Stories, Hand Dance, American Sonnets (1–24), and Native in a Strange Land. She has also published in such periodicals as Another Chicago Magazine, Caliban, River City, Phoebe, Prosodia, and Volt. She lives in Los Angeles.

NEHASSAIU DE GANNES, a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, received the M.A. degree from Temple University. Currently, she teaches English at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island. During the 1996 fall term, she will enter the Creative Writing Program at Brown University. Her poems in this issue of Callaloo are her first print publications. A member of the Dark Room Collective, she was born in Trinidad.

MADHU DUBEY is an assistant professor of English and African-American Studies at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on the novelist Gayl Jones. Her doctoral thesis focused on the fiction of African-American women published during the 1970s. Dubey earned her PhD from the University of Illinois. Her book Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic was published in 1994.

CARLA DU PREE received a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, where she is currently a part-time lecturer in the graduate writing program. Co-founding fiction editor of Shooting Star Review, she has worked with American Visions, and has published in Potomac Review and Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of...

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