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Manoa 11.2 (1999) 218-221



About the Contributors


John Balaban is the author of Locusts at the Edge of Summer, which was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award. His translations include Ca Dao Vietnam: A Bilingual Anthology of Vietnamese Folk Poetry and Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô' Xuân Hu'o'ng (forthcoming). His essay in this issue of Mänoa is written in memory of his teacher, Nguyen Dang Liem, of the University of Hawai'i. Balaban teaches at the University of Miami.

Tony Barnstone is the editor of Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry, coeditor of Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (with Willis Barnstone), and the coeditor and translator of The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (with Chou Ping) and Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (with Willis Barnstone and Xu Haixin). He teaches creative writing, Asian literature, and American literature at Whittier College. His own book of poetry, Impure, was recently published by University of Florida Press.

Mario Benedetti was born in Uruguay. A renowned playwright, novelist, essayist, critic, journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter, he has received numerous literary prizes and written more than sixty books.

Kevin Bowen is director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The author of two collections of poetry, Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong and Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison, he guest-edited the winter 1995 Mänoa feature on poetry from Viet Nam. He has also coedited two anthologies, Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences and Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993.

Horace Bristol was born in California in 1908. Along with Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, Bristol was one of the first staff photographers hired in the 1930s by the new magazine called Life. During the 1930s and 1940s he photographed extensively in Java and then in the American West. When World War ii broke out, Bristol enlisted in the u.s. Navy in order to document the war. After the Japanese surrendered in 1945, Bristol made his home in Japan, but continued to travel throughout Asia, creating a distinctive style of photography and an impressive body of work that combined a modernist expression with a journalistic eye sensitive to images of the human condition. He died in 1997.

Sharon May Brown worked for two years on the Thai-Cambodian border as a writer, photographer, and researcher of Khmer Rouge atrocities for the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights. Her photographs have appeared in the books Seeking Shelter: Cambodians in Thailand and The Saving Rain. Her story "Kwek," about a young boy's rebellion against the Khmer Rouge, appeared in the summer 1999 issue of Mänoa.

Choi In Hoon was born in 1936 in North Hamgyong Province in what is now North Korea. During the Korean War, he and his family moved to South Korea, where he made his literary debut in 1959. He received the 1966 Tongin Literature Prize for his story "Usum sori" (The sound of laughter). He is also a distinguished playwright.

Joseph Duemer has written two books of poetry, Customs and Static. With Jim Simmerman, he coedited the anthology Dog Music.

Gregory Dunne is the author of Fistful of Lotus, a handmade book by Canadian printmaker Elizabeth Forrest. His poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in Poetry East, Third Coast, and Kyoto Journal. He teaches at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

Bruce Fulton is the cotranslator of four anthologies of modern Korean fiction: Words of Farewell and Wayfarer, with Ju-Chan Fulton; Land of Exile, with Ju-Chan Fulton and Marshall R. Pihl; and A Ready-Made Life, with Kim Chong-un. The recipient of a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship and the 1993 Korean Literature Translation Prize, he is director of publications for the International Korean Literature Association.

Tom Haar has worked as a documentary photographer in New York, Hawai'i, and Japan, where he was born. He has had solo exhibitions in...

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