Contributor Notes

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Digital image by Dika Eckersley © 2003.

Prose

Jenna Blum is a creative writing instructor at Boston University and at Grub Street, Inc. Her work has appeared in the Briar Cliff Review, Bellingham Review, and Meridian. Her novel, Those Who Save Us, from which "Easter 1943" is excerpted, will be published by Harcourt in Spring, 2004.

Tom Kealey earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellow at Stanford University. His stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, Black Warrior Review, Ascent, Mid-American Review, and Gulf Coast. He grew up in North Carolina.

Robert Olen Butler is the author of twelve books, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has published stories in the New Yorker, GQ, Paris Review, Zoetrope, and many others.

Aimee Phan received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa. "Miss Lien" is from We Should Never Meet: A Novel-in-Stories (St. Martin's Press).

Annette Sanford's stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. Her collections Lasting Attachments and Crossing Shattuck Bridge were published by Southern Methodist UP. A newnovel, Eleanor and Abel, has been published by Counterpoint P.

Floyd Skloot's new memoir, In the Shadow of Memory (U of Nebraska P), hasbeen selected for the Barnes and Noble Summer 2003 Discover Great New Writers program. An essay included in the book will appear in the Pushcart Prize anthology for 2004. Two recent books of his poetry are also available, The Evening Light (Story Line), and The Fiddler's Trance (Bucknell UP).

R. T. Smith is the editor of Shenandoah. His most recent books are Brightwood (Louisiana State UP) and The Hollow Log Lounge (U of Illinois P). He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and the 2002 Library of Virginia Poetry Prize.

Poetry

Sally W. Bliumis received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Paris Review, Big City Lit, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her manuscript, Talking Underwater, was a finalist for the Hardman Literary Award's Pablo Neruda Prize and a semifinalist for The Kenyon Review Poetry Prize.

Marianne Boruch teaches in the MFA Program at Purdue University. Her most recent collection of poems is A Stick that Breaks and Breaks (Berlin College P). Her collection of essays, Poetry's Old Air, was published as part of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry series.

John Brehm's poems have appeared in Poetry, the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, and Best American Poetry 1999.

Martin Cockroft received his MFA from the University of Montana.

Helen Conkling's work has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Hudson Review, Chicago Review, and the Ohio Review. She is the author of Red Peony Night (U of Pittsburgh P).

Rachel Dacus works as a fund-raising consultant. She is the author of Earth Lessons (Bellowing Ark). Recent work has appeared in Flyway, Many Mountains Moving, and Rattapallax.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is a student in the MFA program at Columbia University. His poems have appeared recently in Rattle, Café Review, and the New Republic.

Alice Friman's latest book, Zoo, was winner of the Ezra Pound Poetry Award in 1999. Her work has been published in Poetry, Boulevard, the Georgia Review, and Shenandoah.

Rigoberto González is the author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and currently lives in Seattle.

Marilyn Krysl's Warscape With Lovers won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize. She is the author of a collection of stories, How to Accommodate Men (Coffee House P).

Twyla Hansen is a horticulturist and writer. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, the Nebraska Review, and Midwest Quarterly. She has three books, Sanctuary Near Salt Creek (Lone Willow P), In Our Very Bones (A Slow Tempo P), and...