Contributor Notes

Cover

Portrait of Celeste, painting by Thorarin Snowfield (1887-1977). Used with permission of Duane Snowfield. The son of Icelandic immigrants, Thorarin Snowfield was born and raised in North Dakota. Snowfield received formal training in New York and Minneapolis but devoted most of his life to portraying the people and land of his native state. This painting of the artist's grandniece dates from the 1960's.

Prose

Diane Chang's prose appears in Glimmer Train, Green Mountains Review, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. She lived in Shanghai for three years and currently resides in St. Louis.

Gregory Dunne's poetry and prose have appeared in a number of magazines including American Poetry Review, Manoa, and Poetry East. He teaches at the International School of Japan.

Kate Flaherty's stories and essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Ascent, and Connecticut Review. A former managing editor of Prairie Schooner, she is now a freelance writer living in Oklahoma.

Daniel Stern is the author of nine novels, five collections of short stories, a play, and several screenplays. His most recent collection of short fiction is A Little Street Music (Texas A&M UP).

Susan Scott Thompson is a writer living in Montrose, Colorado. Her work appears in Oasis, the North American Review, and the Cumberland Poetry Review.

Alison Umminger's fiction has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, and other journals.

Poetry

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an echocardiographer and a doctoral student in poetry. Her work appears in Southern Poetry Review and Good Foot.

Betty Buchsbaum is the author of The Love Word (Chicory Blue P). She is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Writing at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill lives in Tokyo, where she is a teacher and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Boulevard and Arts & Letters.

Cassandra Cleghorn's poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Western Humanities Review, Southwest Review, and Seneca Review.

Nadia Herman Colburn has published poetry in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Paris Review, and the New Yorker. She won the 2003 PEN/New England Discovery award.

Chris Forhan has been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, the New England Review, and others. He is the winner of the Morse prize, the Bakeless prize, and Puschart prize.

Pamela Gemin is the author of Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers (New Rivers P).

Robert Gibb's sixth and most recent book is The Burning World (U of Arkansas P).

Albert Goldbarth lives in Wichita, Kansas. Two of his collections of poetry have received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His current collection, Budget Travel Through Space and Time (Graywolf P), appears this spring.

Samuel Green is the author of nine books, including Vertebrae: Poems 1978-1994 (Eastern Washington UP), and the co-publisher of Brooding Heron Press. His poems appear in Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest.

Stephen Gyllenhaal is a filmmaker and poet whose work appears in the Texas Review, Controlled Burn, Pennsylvania English, and Phantasmagoria.

David Hernandez lives in Long Beach, California. His most recent book is A House Waiting for Music, available from Tupelo Press.

Betsy Snow Hickok has published in Poetry East, the Red Rock Review, and Mademoiselle.

Rhett Iseman's poetry has appeared in a number of magazines including, Explorations, the Comstock Review, and the Greensboro Review.

Kasey Jueds is studying to be a reading specialist. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, 5 A.M., Morlboro Review, and the Women's Review of Books.

Lisa Katz's translations have appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker and American Poetry Review.

John Kinsella teaches at Kenyon College. He is, most recently, the author of Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton).

Jacqueline Kolosov's poems are a part of a book length manuscript about the life and art of Modigliani. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Smartish Pace, and the Malahat Review.

Lynne Knight is the author of Dissolving Borders, which won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize, and The Book...