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Front: High Tea over Sacred Burial Ground © 2006 Sandra L. Beck. Sandra L. Beck is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Originally from the Boston area, she has lived and traveled in South America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. Back: Digital image © 2006 Dika Eckersley
Alan Cheuse is the author, among other works of fiction, of The Grandmother’s Club (Gibbs Smith), Light Possessed (Southern Methodist), Lost and Old Rivers (Southern Methodist), and the memoir, Fall Out of Heaven (Traveler). He serves as book commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and teaches writing at George Mason University.
Laura Furman is the editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review. Her novels and short story collections include Tuxedo Park (Winedale), The Shadow Line (Winedale), The Glass House (Viking), Watch Time Fly (Viking), and most recently, Drinking with the Cook (Winedale). She is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Meredith Hall is the 2004 recipient of the Gift of Freedom Award, a two-year writing grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship. She won a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and one of her essays was named a “Notable Essay” in The Best American Essays 2005. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and in many journals and anthologies. Her first book, the memoir Without a Map, will be published by Beacon Press in 2007. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives on the coast of Maine.
Susan Scheid’s short fiction has appeared most recently in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Portland Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her novel, The Ocularist’s Daughter, was selected as a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and as one of the top ten submissions for the Dana Award in the Novel. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has received a Willow Review award for fiction.
Floyd Skloot’s memoir, In the Shadow of Memory (Nebraska) won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and its sequel, A World of Light (Nebraska) was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is finishing a new memoir, The Wink of the Zenith, about the forces that shaped him as a writer. His work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best Food Writing and the Best Spiritual Writing. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
John R. Wunder is a professor of history and journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and docent of the Renvall Institute for North American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published extensively on the social and legal history of the American West. He is the author, with Susan A. Wunder and Donald R. Hickey, of Nebraska Moments, 2nd Edition, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Small Knots (Cherry Grove Collections) and Geography, winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She lives in a small seaside community in the Northwest with her husband and daughter. www.agodon.com
Denise Banker’s poetry appears in the ALAN Review, Potato Eyes, Plains Song Review, and the anthologies, Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace and Crazy Woman Creek.
Ron Block is the author of the poetry book Dismal River and the short story collection The Dirty Shame Hotel and Other Stories, both from New Rivers Press. A 2002 NEA Fellowship winner in fiction, he teaches creative writing at Rowan University in New Jersey.
James Brasfield’s poems have appeared in Agni, the Chicago Review, the Colorado Review, the Southern Review, and others. He is a former Fulbright lecturer in the Ukraine.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a seventeenth-century Mexican nun and arguably the greatest poet of the Baroque period in the Americas. Highly educated and charming, she composed poetry and music for the elite of Mexican society and was the author of several books. Her convent cell became the intellectual...
