Notes on Contributors
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Max Apple taught fiction writing for many years at Rice University. He now lives in Pennsylvania. His next collection of short stories, The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories, will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the Fall of 2007.
John Barth, the National-Book-Award-winning fiction writer and professor emeritus in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, divides his year between Maryland and Florida. His latest book is the novella-triad Where 3 Roads Meet.
Donald Barthelme was the author of eleven short story collections and four novels. He was a reporter for the Houston Post, a co-founder of Fiction, and helped found the creative writing program at the University of Houston. He won the National Book Award for children's literature in 1972. He died in 1989.
Douglas Basford is a poet and part-time Lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
Karol Berger is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts in the Department of Music at Stanford University. His books include A Theory of Art published in 2000 by Oxford University Press and the forthcoming Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity (from which his essay in this issue is taken) to be published in 2007 by the University of California Press.
Wayne Biddle teaches non-fiction writing in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. He won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism as a reporter for The New York Times in 1986. His books include Barons of the Sky (1991), A Field Guide to Germs (1995), and a forthcoming biography of Wernher von Braun.
Logan D. Browning is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Rice University and the editor of Studies in English Literature.
Stephen Dixon has published twenty-seven books of fiction since 1976. His latest novel, Meyer, was published by Melville House Books. Dixon is recently retired from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
Edward Hirsch, who taught poetry writing for many years at the University of Houston, is presently director of the Guggenheim Foundation. His new volume of poems, Special Orders, will be published in Spring 2008 by Knopf. [End Page 188]
John Hollander, the author of seventeen volumes of poetry and eight volumes of literary criticism, has been awarded over his long career the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hollander will publish with Knopf in 2008 a new book of poems, A Draft of Light, that includes the three poems in this issue.
Christine Jowers is a dancer and choreographer who lives in New York City. She is the Artistic Director of Moving Arts Projects (www.movingartsprojects.org), a company that celebrates the history of modern dance and its connection to the present.
Millard Kaufman was a screenwriter for many years at M-G-M. He wrote the screenplays for Raintree County, Take the High Ground, and Bad Day at Black Rock, receiving Academy Award nominations for the latter two. He also directed the film Reprieve (retitled for television as Convicts Four). He is the author of Plots and Characters (2002), and his first novel, Bowl of Cherries, was published by McSweeney's in 2007.
Frank Kermode delivered the Clark Lectures on "Some Little-Known Aspects of E. M. Forster" at Cambridge University in March 2007. He contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and other periodicals. His more recent books include Shakespeare's Language, The Age of Shakespeare, and Pieces of My Mind. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991.
Sharon Kopriva is a sculptor and painter who lives in Texas and Idaho. She has had a solo exhibition of her work at the Menil Collection in Houston, has participated in a major show at the Smithsonian in Washington, had an exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Art in July 2006, and a solo exhibition of her mummy-like sculptures at the Museo de Nation in Lima, Peru, in September 2006. After a 1981 visit to Peru, Kopriva felt that the graves of Nazca and the Inca rituals had an ongoing influence on her paintings and sculptures. Her work has...
