Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS POETRY Andrew Gent lives in New Hampshire and earns a living writing instruction manuals for a computer company. Albert Goldbarth was recently awarded Poetry magazine's Jacob Glatstein Memorial prize. His new book, Faith, was published this spring by New Rivers Press. Cathryn Hankla recently published poems in Quarterly West and the New Jersey Poetry Review. Her first book of poems, Phenomena, will be published by the University of Missouri Press next spring. Harry Hume's poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Kayak, Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. A volume of poems called Winter Weeds was awarded the Devins Poetry Prize for 1983 and should be out in the spring of that year. Mark Jarman's latest book is The Rote Walker, available from CarnegieMellon University Press. He has poems forthcoming in The New Yorker and The Cumberland Poetry Review. He is co-editor of The Reaper. Richard Katrovas, a former Hoyns fellow at the University of Virginia, has work forthcoming in New England Review and Crazy Horse. "Drink" is from his unpublished manuscript, Green Dragons. Robert Lietz recently published poems in Massachusetts Review, Pequod, Porch, and Carolina Quarterly. L'Epervier Press published Running in Place in 1979 and At Park and East Division in 1981. Barbara Moore is a graduate of Bennington College and Syracuse University Writing Program. She is the author of The Passionate City (Hoffstadt Press) and recently won a BBC prize for poetry in a contest sponsored by the Arvon Foundation. James Paul's poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and other magazines; some are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review and The Runner. Michael Pettit's poetry and fiction have appeared in Intro, Carolina Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is in the MFA program at the University of Alabama and is the editor of the Black Warrior Review. The Missouri Review · 239 David Ray is Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the editor of New Letters. His collection of poems, The Tramp's Cup (The Chariton Review Press, 1978) was awarded the William Carlos Williams Prize. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is spending the 1981/82 academic year at Rajasthan University in Jaipur, India, on an Indo-American Fellowship. Mary Ruefle teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. Her first book of poems, Memling's Veil, was released this spring from The University of Alabama Press. Stephen Sandy had two chapbooks published this spring: Flight of Steps from Bellevue Press, and Chapter and Verse from Moonsquilt Press. Next year Alfred A. Knopf will publish Riding to Greylock, a volume of poems. Jim Simmerman's poems have appeared in Antaeus, Iowa Review, North American Review, Open Places, and elsewhere. His book manuscript Home was runner-up in the 1981 Water Mark Press Poetry Competition. MillerWilliamsworks inthe graduate writing and translationprograms at The University of Arkansas. His latest books are Distractions, a volume of poems, and Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli, translations from the Romanesco. INTERVIEW Marvin Bell has two books forthcoming in the fall: Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (University of Michigan Press); and William Stafford and Marvin Bell: A Correspondence in Poetry (David R. Godine). These Green-Going-to-Yellow was published this spring by Atheneum. FICTION Mark Costello is the author of The Murphy Stories. He teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. George Garrett is a well known novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and editor. His novels include the highly acclaimed Death of the Fox (Doubleday 1971) and The Magic Striptease (Doubleday 1973). Elizabeth and James will be published by Doubleday in 1983. He lives in York Harbor, Maine. 240 · The Missouri Review William Goyen is a well known novelist and short story writer from Texas. His books of fiction include Ghost arici Flesh: Stones and Tales (1952), The Faces ofBlood Kindred (1960), and Collected Stories (1975). The House of Breath, first printed in 1949, was rereleased in 1975 in a special 25th Anniversary Edition. Almost all of his fiction grows out of his life in Texas. CRITICISM Owen Barfield is a distinguished British man of letters...