About the Contributors

About the Contributors Faith Adíele's work has appeared in Ms., Ploughshares, SAGE, Transition, and numerous anthologies. She is currently enroUed in the nonfiction writing program and the writers workshop at the University of Iowa, where she is completing a memoir about being the first black Buddhist nun in Thailand. Trisch Arbib is a writer and artist living in NewYork City. A communications speciaUst, she has worked in education, public relations, and public affairs television. She is currently working on a coUection of family stories. "Encumbrances" is one of them. Seth Archer earned a B.A. from the CoUege of WiUiam and Mary and an M.F.A. from the University ofArizona. He works at a documentary film company in Boston, producing videos for museums and for public television . He also teaches a course on the personal essay. Joe Bonomo's creative nonfiction appears in Southwest Review, Quarterly West, Seneca Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has recendy completed a manuscript of memoirs, "Selves-Portrait: Essays on Memory and Transparent Places."The recipient of a feUowship from the IUinois Arts Council, he teaches at Northern IUinois University. Amy Brown is a writer from Columbiavflle, Michigan. She is currently researching the genealogy of the women in her family for a future project. Marcus Cafagña, a writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan, has authored two books ofpoetry, The Broken World (1996), a National Poetry Series selection, and Roman Fever (2001). His poems and book reviews have been pubUshed in 270 Contributors271 The American Poetry Review, DoubleTake, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and most recendy in The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of all Colors. He teaches in the creative writing program at Southwest Missouri State University. Jim Daniels's most recent books include Blue Jesus (poems), Carnegie MeUon University Press, 2000; No Pets (short stories), Bottom Dog Press, 1999; and American Poetry.The Next Generation (co-editor), Carnegie MeUon University Press, 2000. Stephen Davis is a documentary photographer whose work investigates humanities topics. His latest project examines the experiences of patients and healthcare workers in a hospital. Davis lives in Reno, Nevada, where he is assistant director of the Nevada Humanities Committee. Penelope Dugan teaches writing, women's studies, and African-American studies at Richard Stockton CoUege ofNewJersey. Sections ofher memoir have appeared in Puerto del Sol. Joseph Epstein, a lecturer in literature and writing at Northwestern University, has published several coUections ofpersonal essays, including The Middle ofMy Tether, A Line Outfor a Walk, Once More Around the Block, and Narcissus Leaves the Pool. His coUections of literary essays include Plausible Prejudices, Partial Payments, Pertinent Players, and Life Sentences. He was the editor of The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997 and edited two anthologies, The Best American Essays 1993 and The Norton Book ofPersonal Essays. Patricia Foster is the editor of Minding the Body, Sister To Sister, a co-editor of The Healing Circle (with Mary Swander), and the author of a forthcoming memoir, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter. She is an associate professor in the M.F.A. program in nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Joëlle Fraser has published in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Nerve, and Zyzzyva, and she writes book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her memoir, The Territory ofMen, wül be published by Random House in Spring 2001. She is a graduate of the nonfiction program at the University of Iowa. 272Fourth Genre Philip Garrison's "Corrido" is from a forthcoming book about contemporary Mexican immigration, Because I Don't Have Wings. To date, parts have appeared in Northwest Review, North American Review, and Southwest Review. He has written two previous nonfiction coUections: Augury (University of Georgia Press, 1991) and Waitingfor the Earth toTurn Over (University ofUtah Press, 1996). Carol Guess is the author of two novels, Seeing Dell and Switch. "Red" is a chapter from her recently completed memoir, Gaslight: One Writer's Ghosts. She teaches creative writing and GLBT Studies at Western Washington University. Stephen D. Gutierrez is the author of Elements, which won the Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon ExceUence in...