About the Contributors

About the Contributors CB Anderson's work recently has appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Literal Latte, The Iowa Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. Her essay "Cars" is a finalist for The Best American Essays 2002. She teaches writing at Boston University and lives outside Boston with her family Kim Barnes is the author ofIn the Wilderness: Coming ofAge in an Unknown Country, which won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Hungryfor the World:A Memoir. Her forthcoming novel is titled Finding Caruso. She teaches creative writing at the University ofIdaho. Jocelyn Bartkevicius is the book review editor for Fourth Genre. Her work has appeared in suchjournals as The Bellingham Review (as the winner ofThe Annie DiUard Award in the essay), The Missouri Review, and The Hudson Review. She is at work on a memoir. Amy Benson is currently completing Legends of the Sparkling-eyed Boy, other chapters of which have appeared in Sonora Review, River Teeth, and Quarterly West. Her poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Pleiades, and other journals. She currently teaches creative writing at Northwest Missouri State University, where she also co-edits The Laurel Review. Jane Bernstein's fourth book is Bereft—A Sister's Story. Her essays have been widely published. Her awards include a 2000-2001 NEA and the Virginia Faulkner Award for a recent essay. She teaches in the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University. 230 Contributors231 Alys Culhane is an essayist and memoirist whose work has been published in numerous pubUcations. She's working on a memoir/travelogue entitled Headwinds: The Memoir of a Cross-Country bicycUst. She currently lives in WalkerviUe, Montana. Philip F. Deaver is associate professor ofEngUsh and permanent writer in residence at RoUins CoUege inWinter Park, Florida. He's just completed a novel entitled Past Tense. He's the 13th winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He's won an O. Henry Award and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Bread Loaf. Having been raised 23 miles south of Champaign, IUinois, in the '60s, and now living about five hours south ofTaUahassee, he's put in most ofhis Ufe and career just south ofJanet Burroway. Janet Carey Eldred lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where she teaches writing and editing at the University of Kentucky. Roberta Hartling Gates received her M.F.A. in fiction writing from Vermont CoUege. Previous work has appeared in Confrontation, The Louisville Review, Passager, and Midday Moon. She is married with two sons and teaches high school English in a suburb of Chicago. Holly Harden graduated in May 2002, from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, with an M.F.A. in writing. She writes nonfiction and poetry, has published work in A Viewfrom the Loft, TheJournal of Graduate Liberal Studies, and Water~Stone, and is at work on her first nonfiction book, The Pastor's Wife, and a coUection ofessays on the body. Ms. Harden fives in Scandia, Minnesota, with her husband and three children. Priscilla Hodgkins's prose has appeared in Creative Nonfiction and Confrontation; her nonfiction has been recognized in Best American Essays. She is associate director of the Writing Seminars, a graduate program in writing at Bennington CoUege. Current projects include a novel and a collection of essays. Bette Lynch Husted teaches and writes in rural Eastern Oregon. "FoUowing the Deer," in Northwest Review, was Usted as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2000. Her recent work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, Northern Lights, Natural Bridge, and College English. 232Fourth Genre Peter Ives lives in central Florida. His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Lawrence Kestenbaum is a research specialist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. He teaches historic preservation law at Eastern Michigan University and serves as Washtenaw County Commissioner. He is the creator of the PoliticalGraveyard.com web site. Lisa Knopp is an essayist and memoirist who has -written two collections of essays, Field of Vision and The Nature of Home, and the memoir Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape. She teaches...