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  • Notes on Contributors

David Baker's new book of poems, Never Ending Birds, will appear in 2009 from W. W. Norton. He is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.

Harold Bloom is lost in the composition of Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence.

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of ten books, including She's Not There, and the recently published memoir, I'm Looking Through You. A professor of English at Colby College, her first collection of stories, Remind Me to Murder You Later, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1988.

R. L. Friedman is a freelance writer living in New York City and an advisory editor of The Hopkins Review.

William Giraldi teaches writing at Boston University and is senior fiction editor for the journal Agni. His work has appeared recently in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, and The New Criterion.

Natalie Charkow Hollander , born and raised in Philadelphia, graduated from Tyler School of Fine Arts. She founded the sculpture department of the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) and subsequently taught in the MFA programs at the Yale School of Art, Boston University, Queens College CUNY, Indiana University, and the New York Studio School. The photographs in this issue are courtesy of the Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York City, where she has exhibited in 2004 and 2008 and which represents her.

Jefferson Hunter teaches modern British literature and film at Smith College. He has recently completed a study tentatively titled English Filming, English Writing.

Michael Martone's most recent books are Racing in Place: Fragments, Collages, Postcards, Ruins; Double-Wide, collected short fictions; and Michael Martone, a memoir done in contributor's notes like this one. "RPM" is from his new book, Four for a Quarter, a collection of short fiction based on the number four. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and knows the thirteen great states the B&O Railroad linked with the nation.

Elizabeth Murphy is a freelance editor and poet and co-founder of the online interdisciplinary magazine The Straddler (www.thestraddler.com). She is currently seeking a publisher for the completed manuscript A Literary Friendship: Donald Justice and Richard Stern. [End Page 160]

Ronald Paulson published his most recent book, Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature, in 2007 with the Yale University Press.

Wyatt Prunty directs the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems is available from the Johns Hopkins University Press, and a new collection, A Lover's Guide to Trapping, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in the spring of 2009.

J. Allyn Rosser's most recent book, Foiled Again, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published by Ivan R. Dee in 2007. She teaches at Ohio University.

Michaels Waters's most recent books include Darling Vulgarity, a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Parthenop: New and Selected Poems (2001), both from BOA Editions. He teaches at Monmouth University and in the MFA Program at Drew University.

Karen Wilkin is a New York-based independent curator and critic specializing in twentieth-century modernism. [End Page 161]

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