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About the Contributors A graduate ofthe Iowa NonfictionWriting Program, Julene Bair won the 1996 Wyoming Arts Council's Neltje Blanchan Award for writing inspired by nature. Her essays have appeared in venues ranging from the Missouri Review to the Chicago Tribune. She is at work on a memoir, Light and Distance:A Western Life. Phyllis Barber is the author of six books, including How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, winner of the 1991 Award for Creative Nonfiction from the Associated Writing Programs. Her new book, Parting the Veil: Storiesfrom a Mormon Imagination, will be available in January 1999 from Signature Press, Salt Lake City, Utah. Jocelyn Bartkevicius teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida where she is nonfiction editor for The Florida Review. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, and The Missouri Review (which awarded her the essay prize) and has been recognized in The Best American Essays. Current projects include studies of VirginiaWoolf and a memoir, The Emerald Room. Alys Culhane is an assistant professor of English at Plymouth State College where she teaches courses in creative nonfiction. Culhane has creative nonfiction essays forthcoming or recently published in Writing on the Edge, The Cream City Review, Lessons Learned: An Anthology of Work by Writer/Teachers, Sea Kayaker, and Paddler. Stephen Dunning lives and writes in Ann Arbor where he also walks his dog, Gus, and practices the four-string banjo. His second book of stories is Hunger's Dark (1996) and his most recent collaboration is Getting the Knack (1992), with William Stafford. 176 Contributors177 Kristina Emick is pursuing an M.F.A. at Ohio State University. Gail Hosking Gilberg is a teacher and writer in upstate NewYork. Her essays have appeared in such places as The Chattahoochee Review, The South Dakota Review, and The NewJersey Star Ledger. Snake's Daughter, her first book, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 1997. Leigh Gilmore, associate professor of English at the Ohio State University, is the author oíAutobiographies:A Feminist Theory ofWomen's SelfRepresentation and several articles on autobiography, and is a co-editor of Autobiography and Postmodernism. She is completing a book on self-representation and trauma. Rasma Haidri's recent poems appear in Prairie Schooner, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Lullwater Review, Fish Stories, Passages North, and other journals. She is the poetry column editor for the Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal and hosts a literature show on local radio in Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Steven Harvey is the author of two books of personal essays, A Geometry ofLilies and Lost in Translation and is the editor ??In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age. He lives in the north Georgia mountains with his family and teaches English atYoung Harris College. Robin Hemley's memoir, Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness, was published in September 1998 by GraywolfPress. His recent fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Sun, Manoa, Hawai'i Review, and American Jewish Fiction:A Century of Stories (Nebraska, Bison Books). He is currently working on a book of nonfiction for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. In 1999, David Huddle's novel, The Story of a Million Years, will be published by Houghton Mifflin, and Louisiana State University Press will publish his Summer Lake: New & Selected Poems. He's the author of a collection of essays (The Writing Habit), a novella (Tenorman), and several collections of short stories and poems. Huddle teaches literature and writing at the University ofVermont and the Bread Loaf School ofEnglish. Peter M. Ives teaches English at Trinity Preparatory School inWinter Park, Florida, and is a former Associate Editor of The Florida Review. The Gettysburg Review will publish his essay "From a Bookstore in Central Florida" this year. 178Fourth Genre Kim Kauffman has practiced commercial and fine art photography for over twenty years. Her commercial work appears regularly in print communications such as annual reports, advertisements, and corporate brochures. She exhibits her fine art photography biannually at Mackerel Sky Gallery in East Lansing, Michigan, and over the years has been juried into many national photography and mixed...

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