Contributors' Notes

Contributors' Notes David Barber's poems have appeared in Ironwood, Quarry West, and elsewhere. Daniel Halpern's most recent book is Seasonal Rights. Jonathan Holden has just won the Juniper Prize for his fourth collection, The Names of the Rapids. Mark Jarman's new book is Far and Away. Larry Levis' new collection, Winter Stars, is due this month from University of Pittsburgh Press. Stuart Lishan has poems forthcoming in Mid-American Review. James McCorkle has work appearing in Quarry West, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Jane Miller's new book of prose poems, Black Holes, Black Stockings (co-author Olga Broumas) will be out in September. Michael Pettit's first book of poems is American Light. L.M. Rosenberg is editor of MSS. Lex Runciman's book, Luck, was published by Owl Creek Press. Peter Serchuk's poems have appeared in APR, Paris Review, and elsewhere. Elizabeth Spires' second book, Swan's Island, is forthcoming from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Anne Sweeney is Assistant Editor of non-fiction at a large Manhattan publishing house. Nancy Takacs has published in the Seattle Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Debra Thomas works as an editor at Honolulu Publishing Company. Beth Tornes has published in a variety of magazines. John Veinberg's chapbook is titled Nothing About the Dead. Julia Wendell has recent work in Antioch Review, Crazy Horse, etc. Brenda DeMartini has published poetry in a number of journals and currently works for a publishing house in New York. John Dufresne has published in a variety of magazines. He currently teaches at Northeast Louisiana University. Amy Hempel's collection of stories is Reasons to Live. She is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. Naguib Mahfouz, born in Cairo in 1912, is one of the Arab world's premier fiction writers. Several of his books have been translated in England and the U.S. Marcelle Martin is an MFA candidate at the University of Mass. This is her first published story. John Mort's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Mark Schoofs is a teacher of transcendental meditation. Robert Taylor, Jr. has published widely. His collection, Loving Belle Starr, was published last year. Joy Williams' most recent collection is Taking Care. Naomi Jacobs teaches at the University of Maine at Oreno. ...