Contributor Notes

Cover

"Stump" and "Viaduct" by David Lovekin. Mr. Lovekin's photography has appeared in Love: America the Beautiful in the Words of Walt Whitman, America's Last Chance, and in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Great Plains Art Collection in 2003, and another forthcoming at Modern Arts Midwest.

Prose

Leonardo Alishan was born of Armenian parents in Tehran, Iran. He is the author of two books of poetry, Dancing Barefoot on Broken Glass (Ashod) and Through A Dewdrop (Open Letter).

Geoffrey Becker is the author of the novel, Bluestown, and the short story collection, Dangerous Men, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His story, "Black Elvis," was reprinted in Best American Short Stories 2000.

Tamara Friedman is a technical writer. Her short stories have appeared in Hawai'i Review, Minnesota Review, and Colorado Review.

Anna Monardo's novel, The Courtyard of Dreams, has been translated into German, Norwegian, and Danish. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, The Sun, and was feature in NPR's "Selected Shorts" reading series.

Heidi Shayla lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon. Her fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review, South Dakota Review, and Georgetown Review.

David A. Taylor has had his nonfiction published in DoubleTake, the Smithsonian, and The Atlantic Online.

Poetry

Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India. Her volume of poems Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly/Northwestern UP) was winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. Her new book of poems, Raw Silk, will be published this spring by Triquarterly/Northwestern UP.

Judith Arcana's work has been published in ZYZZYVA, Calyx and Nimrod. Her books include Our Mothers' Daughters, Every Mothers' Son, and Grace Paley's Life Stories: A Literary Biography.

Rane Arroyo is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Toledo. His fourth and latest book of poems is Home Movies of Narcissus (U of Arizona P).

Jeffery Bahr has published work in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Many Mountains Moving.

Jane Bailey is a registered nurse. Her first book of poems, The Fine Art of Postponement, won the 2002 Stevens Manuscript Prize (NFSPS Press). Her work appears in Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, CALYX, and others.

Willis Barnstone's poems have appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Paris Review. His recent books are Life Watch (BOA) and With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires: A Memoir (Illinois UP).

Dan Bellm is a writer and teacher who works with California Poets in the Schools. He is the author of One Hand on the Wheel (Roundhouse/Heyday) and Buried Treasure (Cleveland State UP).

Allison Benis won the 2001 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and a 2002 St.Louis Poetry Center Best Poem Prize. Her poems have been published in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and Quarterly West.

Michelle Bitting enjoyed careers as a modern dancer and chef before becoming a mother and poet. Her poetry appears in Rattle, Pearl, and Many Mountains Moving.

Sandra Skipwith Bowen is an artist living in Texas.

Michael Brosnan is the editor of Independent School Magazine. He has published poetry in Borderlands, New Letters, and Confrontations.

J. V. Brummels is a rancher and the author of Cheyenne Line and Other Poems (Backwaters P).

Anthony Butts is the author of Fifth Season (New Issues P), Evolution (Sutton Hoo P) and in 2003, Little Low Heaven (New Issues P). Recent work appears in Whiskey Island Magazine, Callaloo and Minnesota Review.

Lisa D. Chavez is a poet and nonfiction writer. Her latest books are Destruction Bay(West End P) and In An Angry Season (U of Arizona P). Raised in Alaska, her first publication in Prairie Schooner was in our special issue: Writing from Alaska. She now lives in New Mexico.

Sharon Chmielarz's most recent book is The Other Mozart (Ontario Review P). She is the author of three other books and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Judith Ortiz Cofer's latest books are Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer, from The University of Georgia Press and An Island Like You from Penguin. Her novel, The...