Notes on Contributors
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Thomas Cobb is the author of the novels Crazy Heart and Shavetail. His forthcoming novel, With Blood in their Eyes, from which "Leaving the Galiuros" is excerpted, will be published in September 2012 by the University of Arizona Press.
Clay Cogswell is a poet who teaches creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University.
Jack L. B. Gohn, when not practicing law in Baltimore, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and ocasional book reviewer. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The National Catholic Reporter, and on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra website.
Judith Hall's recent books are Three Trios (Northwestern, 2007) and Poetry Forum (Bayeux Arts, 2007), a collaboration with David Lehman that she illustrated.
Jefferson Hunter, The Hopkins Review's film critic, is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.
Patrick Kennedy is an educator, fiction writer, and regular contributor to The Hopkins Review. At present he is based out of New York City and Montreal.
Mark Kraushaar's poetry collection Falling Brick Kills Local Man won the 2009 Felix Pollak Prize and was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. His most recent collection, The Uncertainty Principle, published by Waywiser Press, was chosen by James Fenton as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize.
Peter Levine is the author of a short story collection, The Appearance of a Hero, to be published by St. Martin's Press in August 2012. His story in this issue is part of that collection.
Rich Levy is author of the poetry collection Why Me? and executive director of Inprint, a literary arts non-profit in Houston, Texas.
Jean McGarry's most recent book is Ocean State, a collection of stories. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Maggie Murray lives and writes in Los Angeles. [End Page 447]
William H. Pritchard teaches English at Amherst College and is the author most recently of What's Been Happening to Jane Austen: Readings of Novelists and Critics.
John Paul Riquelme, Professor of English at Boston University and co-chair of the Modernism Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, is currently writing books about Oscar Wilde's relation to literary modernism and about the cultural logic of the Gothic. He notes that his essay in this issue "is dedicated to the memory of Monroe K. Spears (1916-1998), who taught me that literature is constituted by allusion."
Jay Rogoff, The Hopkins Review's dance critic, published The Art of Gravity, his book of dance-related poems in 2011. His new poetry collection, Venera, will appear from the LSU Press next year. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he teaches at Skidmore College and covers the New York City ballet season for The Saratogian newspaper and Ballet Review.
Scott Sternbach began his career as a photographer in the late 1970s, photographing many noted jazz musicians and entertainers. He ran a private portrait studio in Manhattan and was regularly published in prominent periodicals. Today he directs the Photography Program at LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York. His recent accolades include a National Science Foundation Antarctic Fellowship, an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, which funds a travel abroad program to Chile in 2012.
James Wooden divides his time between Massachusetts and Maryland, where he teaches creative writing. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and deployed to Afghanistan in 2003. [End Page 448]
