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  • Contributors

Ann E. Berthoff's "Versions of Empson" appeared in the spring issue of this magazine.

Christopher Brookhouse is a man of letters who has published fiction as well as poetry in these pages.

Catharine Savage Brosman's latest book of poetry, Range of Light, has recently been released by the LSU Press.

Derek Cohen, who is best known for his criticism and scholarship on Shakespeare, lives and works in Toronto.

Brian Cox, who founded Critical Quarterly with A. E. Dyson, is perhaps best known for the Black Papers. He long taught English at Manchester University, and his last post there was as pro-vice-chancellor. He has a new book of poetry in press—My Eightieth Year in Heaven.

Paula Deitz, the editor of the Hudson Review, is now working on a selection of her garden pieces, which will be published next spring by the University of Pennsylvania Press. It is provisionally titled "Architecture in Nature: Selected Essays."

Edward L. Galligan has written essays in criticism and reminiscence as well as reviews for the SR since 1978.

Henry Hart has published critical studies of Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill and a biography of James Dickey. His latest book is a selection of poetry, Background and Radiation (2007).

David Havird's poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and elsewhere.

Ben Howard is chiefly known for his work, prose and poetry, on Ireland, as is demonstrated in the latest Irish issue of this magazine (summer 2006).

Peter Makuck, who is now retired from East Carolina University, presented the Aiken Taylor lecture on Brendan Galvin in November.

David Mason's latest book is a verse narrative, Ludlow, which was recently reviewed in Book World: "Here's a chapter of our lives in cadences," writes Ron Charles.

John McCormick has an essay, "Another Music," and a review of Stephen Miller's Conversation in the winter issue, as well as two reviews in the spring.

The late Elizabeth McFarland edited poetry for the Ladies' Home Journal from 1948 to 1961 and brought to that magazine's six-million readers work by Auden, Marianne Moore, Roethke, Plath, Maxine Kumin, and other distinguished writers. A book of her poems, "Over the Summer Water," will be released by Orchises Press in January.

Ed Minus, who earned the Heilman award for book reviewing in the SR during 2006, will have more reviews and essays in its pages over the next few issues.

Kent Nelson has contributed short fiction to this quarterly since the winter of 1974. His latest collection of stories is The Touching That Lasts (2006).

Richard O'Mara will have other travel pieces in these pages in future issues.

Edward Pickering lives and writes in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is doing graduate work in English at Yale.

Sam Pickering's latest book is Edinburgh Days, a part of which appeared in the SR last year under the title "Invisible."

George Poe, who teaches French at the University of the South, has been honored as the Carnegie/case professor of the year for the state of Tennessee, 2006.

Donald Schier, who has long reviewed books concerning France and its culture for the SR, will have another review in the fall issue.

Charles P. R. Tisdale has published poetry in the Michigan Quarterly, the Antioch Review, and Nimrod. Of late he has been writing pieces prompted by his travels in Europe, especially in northern England and Scotland.

George Watson, a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, continues to write essays for various periodicals such as the Hudson Review and this magazine. His autobiographical account of Melvin Lasky and Encounter will appear in the fall SR. [End Page lxxiii]

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