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Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 8.2 (2006) 177-180


About the Contributors

Tim Bascom’s memoir Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia, was published by Houghton Mifflin in June 2006. It is winner of the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction from Breadloaf Writing Conference. Bascom’s essays have won editor’s prizes from the Missouri Review and the Florida Review, and he has been published in Best American Travel Writing. He has also published a novel (Squatters’ Rites, New Day Press) and a collection of essays (The Comfort Trap, InterVarsity Press). He is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Currently, he lives in Newton, Iowa, with his wife and two sons.

Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser, a graduate of Hampshire College and Warren Wilson College’s MFA program in fiction, has had work appear in the Georgia Review, Story Quarterly, and Brain Child, among others. She lives with her husband and three sons in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Stephanie S. Farber is a retired psychologist and a recent graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her first published essay was a finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award at the Salem College Center for Women Writers. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and the Marlboro Review.

J. Malcolm Garcia has been published in the Virginia Quarterly,Missouri Review, and Ascent Magazine among other publications. His essays have received “notable mention” in the annual anthologies Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. [End Page 177]

Meredith Hall’s work has appeared in the New York Times and in many journals and anthologies. Hall is the 2005 recipient of the Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation, and the Pushcart Prize. Her memoir, Without a Map, will be published by Beacon Press in 2007. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Maine.

Priscilla Hodgkins’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Agni, Another Chicago Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, the Milwaukee Sentinel, and Confrontation. Her essay “Einstein Didn’t Dream of My Mother” was recognized in Best American Essays and her story “Bread and War” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is associate director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, a graduate program in writing at Bennington College.

Barbara Hurd is the author of Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) and Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (Beacon 2001). Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including Best American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001, the Yale Review, the Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon, and others. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award and a 2004 Pushcart Prize, she teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, and at the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA.

Sandra Hurtes is an essayist and teacher living in Manhattan. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Poets & Writers, feminist.com, and numerous other publications. She received a 2004 award from the American Jewish Press for excellence in Jewish Journalism. She currently teaches writing in the Special Programs at the University of Pennsylvania.

Seymour Kleinberg is the author of The Fugitive Self, a memoir, and Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America. He has reviewed and written essays for The Village Voice, the New Republic,The Nation among others. He lives in New York City.

Geeta Kothari’s writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Best American Essays, and the Kenyon Review. She is the recipient of a 2005 Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. [End Page 178]

Stan Krohmer is a photographer and faculty member in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. He recently received a grant to continue his work on the GVSU Ravines Photo Project. He lives with his wife, poet Patricia Clark, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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