Notes on Contributors
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H. Thomas Baird is a professor in the photography department at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a visiting professor at Burren College of Art in Ireland.
Richard Burgin is the author of twelve books, including his recent story collection The Conference on Beautiful Minds and The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories. Five of his stories have won Pushcart Prizes, others have been reprinted in The Best American Mystery Stories and in the Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. He edits the magazine Boulevard.
William J. Cobb is the author of two novels, The Fire Eaters and Goodnight, Texas, as well as a book of stories. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, and The Antioch Review among others. He lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Susan De Sola has poetry forthcoming in The New Republic and Measure and is winner of the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize. She is presently completing a first collection of her poetry.
Hastings Hensel received his MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 2009. His poetry has recently appeared in the South Carolina Review and in New South.
John Meredith Hill is professor of English at the University of Scranton. He has new poems in The Gettysburg Review and The Times Literary Supplement.
John Hollander, the author of eighteen volumes of poetry and eight volumes of literary criticism, has been awarded over his long career the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hollander published his latest volume of poems, A Draft of Light, in 2008.
Jefferson Hunter is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.
Alfred Nicol received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light. He edited The Powow River Anthology, published in 2006. His new book of poems, Elegy for Everyone, was chosen for the first Anita Dorn Memorial Prize and will be published in October 2009. [End Page 611]
Andrea O'Brien's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, and The New York Quarterly. She lives in central Kentucky.
Ronald Paulson's forthcoming book is The Art of Riot in England and America.
Jay Rogoff's next book of poetry, The Code of Terpsichore, concerns dance and will appear from the Louisiana State University press in 2011. His most recent book is The Long Fault (LSU Press, 2008). He has recently completed Enamel Eyes, a book-length fantasia on Coppélia, the Franco-Prussian War, and 1870 Paris.
Mary Jo Salter is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and teaches in The Writing Seminars. The paperback of her most recent book, A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2008) has just been released.
Robert B. Shaw's latest books are Solving for X (poems) and Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use, both published by the Ohio University Press. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College.
David R. Slavitt's latest volume of poetry is Seven Deadly Sins. His translation of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso will be published in the fall, as will his memoir of his days as a movie critic, George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me.
Robley Wilson lives in Florida with his wife, novelist Susan Hubbard, and six cats. The most recent of his five story collections is The Book of Lost Fathers (Johns Hopkins University Press).
David Wyatt teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His essay in this issue is a chapter from his forthcoming book on the "secret history" told by twentieth-century American literature. [End Page 612]
