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About the Contributors Marcia Aldrich is the author of Girl Rearing, published by W. W. Norton. Aldrich currently teaches creative writing at Michigan State University and serves as Faculty Advisor to Red Cedar Review. Bayard is at work on his nineteenth novel and actively seeking literary representation . Boogwas born in the Upper Peninsula, and is a recent graduate ofMichigan State University. Douglas Dowland is currently in his second year of graduate study at The University ofIowa. He is currently revising his senior honors thesis—on the later works of John Steinbeck—for publication. Dowland was General Editor of Red Cedar Review from 2000-2001. Stuart Dybek is the author of two collections of short stories, a collection of poems, and a chapbook of short short fiction and prose poems. His fiction , poetry, and nonfiction have been published in numerous magazines including TheNew Yorker, Atlantic, Harper's, DoubleTake, and Poetry. He has received numerous awards, including: the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize; an Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy ofArts and Letters in 1994; a Guggenheim Fellowship; and four O. Henry Prizes, including an O. Henry first prize for his story, "Hot Ice." Currently, Dybek is Professor ofEnglish at Western Michigan University and a member ofthe permanent faculty for the Prague Summer Writers Seminars. In addition to three novels, a book ofshort stories, a collection ofessays, and six collections of poems, Dan Gerber's work has been published in: The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, and BestAmerican Poetry ippp. Nominated for Pushcart prizes in poetry and nonfiction, he received The Michigan Author Award in 1992 and The MarkTwain Award for distinguished contributions to midwestern literature in 2001. His most recent collection of poems, Trying to Catch the Horses, won the 1999 first prize for poetry from ForwardMagazine. 109 1 10ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Angela Vasquez-Giroux is an English and Art History undergraduate at Michigan State University. She is a student ofDiane Wakoski and a member of the Alchemists. Diane Glancy is author ofa great number ofplays, novels, poems, and nonfiction pieces. She received her undergraduate degree in English from the University ofMissouri, her M.A. from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma, and her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Glancy was also Artist-in-Residence for the State Arts Council of Oklahoma, and is now a faculty member of Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American literature and creative writing courses. Judith Minty is the author offive full-length collections ofpoetry and three chapbooks. Her first book, Lake Songs and Other Fears, was recipient ofthe US Award ofthe International Poetry Forum. Her work has appeared in over fifty anthologies and in numerous literaryjournals. She directed the Creative Writing Program at Humboldt State University in California and most recently taught at University of Alaska, Anchorage. Minty presently lives along the Lake Michigan shoreline with her Yellow Dog named River and spends part of the year hermitizing at an old fishing shack in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Jon Muzzall lives in Detroit, Michigan. Jessi Phillips graduated from Michigan State University in May, with a Bachelor's Degree ofEnglish. She hopes to enter an M.EA. program within a year after graduation; in the meantime she plans on traveling. Her dream is to someday write and teach writing for a living. "Pulling Away" received third place in the 2002 Jim Cash Fiction Contest. Stephen Rachman is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University and Director of the American Studies Program. He writes on Nineteenth-Century American literature and culture, medicine and literature , and various documentary forms. Evelyn Shakir is the author of BintArab: Arab andArab American Women in the United States. She has also written a number of essays on Arab American literature, produced a radio documentary on Lebanese and Syrians in Massachusetts, and reviewed books for The Arabic Hour television pro- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS1 1 1 gram, produced in Boston. "Any Other Name" is one ofa series ofstories she is writing that are set in the Arab American community. Other stories in the series have appeared in the collection Post-Gibran: New Arab American Writers and in the journal Flyway. Craig Shaw...

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