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  • Contributor Notes

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Digital image by Dika Eckersley © 2004.

Prose

Hollis Giammatteo lives in Seattle. “The Perfidy of Things” appears in her collection of humorous essays about aging. She has a wonderful mink coat for sale.

Michelle Hoover teaches creative writing at Greenfield Community College and Smith College. Her short fiction has appeared in CutBank, Cream City Review, and the Massachusetts Review. She lives in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, with her husband.

Leslie Lawrence’s work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Witness, the Connecticut Review, and the Massachusetts Review. She enjoys teaching workshops in her home and conducting private consultations.

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer is the author of The Snow Fox (Norton), Anya (Norton), Buffalo Afternoon (Norton), and The Madness of a Seduced Woman (Penguin). She lives in Chicago and Vermont.

Catherine Tudish lives in Strafford, Vermont. Her first book, a story collection called Tenney’s Landing, will be published by Scribner in the summer of 2005.

Robert Vivian is an assistant professor of English at Alma College. He is the author of Cold Snap as Yearning (University of Nebraska Press), and his work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Another Chicago Magazine, and Harper’s.

Poetry

Eric Anderson works as a surveyor. He is the author ofthe chapbook, Confederate Season, and has published work in Poetlore, Rattle, and Open Spaces.

Bob Brooks is the author of the chapbook, Still in Here Someplace (Pudding House P). His work has appeared in several magazines, including the Beloit Poetry Journal and Poetry.

Rick Bass is the author of nineteen books of fiction and non-fiction, including the novel Where the Sea Used to Be (Houghton Mifflin). He lives in Montana and works to preserve the last roadless wilderness in Montana’s Yaak Valley.

Amy Beeder’s poems have appeared in The Nation, Boulevard, Black Warrior Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Puerto del Sol, and others.

Gaylord Brewer is the author of Four Nails (Snail’s Pace Press) and Barbaric Mercies (Red Hen Press). His poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Connecticut Review, and Mid-Atlantic Review.

Julianne Buchsbaum’s poems have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, and Colorado Review. She is the author of Slowly, Slowly, Horses from Ausable Press.

Cathleen Calbert is the author of two books of poetry: Lessons in Space (U of Florida P) and Bad Judgment (Sarabande).

Wensday Carlton is an ESL teacher in Bordeaux, France. She has published work in TriQuarterly and a chapbook with Momotombo Press.

Tom Daley is a machinist. His poetry has appeared in Perihelion, Cyber-Oasis, Pemmican, and Yemassee.

David Dooley works as a paralegal. He is the winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and co-winner of the Yellowglen Prize. His works include The Volcano Inside and The Revenge by Love (Story Line Press), and The Zen Garden (Word Tech).

Andrew Frisardi is the translator of The Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which won the Raiziss/de Palchi Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in Italy.

Katy Giebenhain works as a graphic designer and has had poetry published in Die Unsterblichen Obelisken Ägyptens. She lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Paul Guest’s poetry has appeared in Slate, Verse, Pleiades and Quarterly West, among others. He is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World (New Issues P).

Mark Halperin is the author, most recently, of Time as Distance (New Issues P/Western Michigan U) and the translator, with Dinara Georgeoliani, of A Million Premonitions: Poems of Victor Sosnora (Zephyr P). He lives in Washington.

Janice N. Harrington works as a librarian and has been published in the African American Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She also has two children’s books forthcoming from Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Lola Haskins’s latest book of poems is Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions) Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Christian Science Monitor, London Review of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and has been broadcast on NPR and BBC.

Joanne Hayhurst has an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines...

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