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River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 8.2 (2007) 127-130

Contributors' Notes

Sophie Beck lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Kitchen Sink, and Post Road, among other places. Fourth Genre has made her sweet and tender promises, so her work should turn up there soon if you've already devoured your River Teeth and would like some further reading.

Jill Christman's memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays have appeared in Harpur Palate; Fourth River; Literary Mama; Under the Sun; Brain, Child; and other journals. She teaches creative writing at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their daughter.

Liza Field is a hiker, teacher, and tree planter in Wytheville, Virginia, where she writes two regional newspaper columns, "A Mountain View" and "Fieldnotes."

David Gessner is the author of six books of literary nonfiction, including Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature, and Soaring with Fidel. His essay "Learning to Surf," originally published in Orion, won the John Burroughs Award for an Outstanding Published Nature Essay for 2006. His essays have appeared in many magazines and journals including The Georgia Review, American Scholar, The Boston Sunday Globe, The Harvard Review, The New York Times, and the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, for which his essay "Benediction" was selected. He has taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard and is currently a professor of [End Page 127] creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he also edits the literary journal of place, Ecotone.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town. A member of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission following South Africa's first free elections, Gobodo-Madikizela is the author of A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, which won the Alan Paton Award for nonfiction in South Africa and the Christopher Award for adult nonfiction in the United States. Her current research interests include the psychology of forgiveness in the aftermath of mass atrocity as well as trauma and gender issues related to HIV/AIDS.

Richard Hoffman is author of Half the House: A Memoir and the poetry collections Without Paradise and Gold Star Road, winner of the 2007 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. His work, both verse and prose, has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Witness, and other magazines. He has been awarded several fellowships and prizes, most recently a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in fiction, and The Literary Review's Charles Angoff Prize. He is writer-in-residence at Emerson College and also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

Kevin Kerrane teaches at the University of Delaware and in the Goucher MFA Program in Creative Nonfiction. He is the author of Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting and the coeditor of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism. His writing has been published in Sports Illustrated, Irish Studies Review, and the online journal Salon.

Antjie Krog is the author of Country of My Skull, an acclaimed book about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and her experiences covering it for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Krog's second book of nonfiction, A Change of Tongue, explores the realities of postapartheid South Africa in multilayered personal and social details. Krog is one of her nation's leading poets, writing in the Afrikaans language, and is currently Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. [End Page 128]

J. T. Ledbetter's creative nonfiction has appeared in Big Muddy, Under the Sun, The MacGuffin, Burning Light, and the Merton Seasonal. He has published poems in The Sewanee Review, Atlantic Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and many other venues. His fiction has appeared in The Mendocino Review, Rosebud, Lake Effect, Knock, and Crosscurrents.

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