Contributors

Reviews 249 CONTRIBUTORS WENDY BISHOP teaches writing at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. JAMES BEST needs no introduction, which is a good thing since he provided us with no biographical information. PAUL BUHLE's most recent book is a biography of C.L.R. James published by Verso. A teacher at Miami University in Ohio, ARTHUR D. CASCIATO is completing a history of the League of American Writers. KEVIN CHRISTIANSON'S work has appeared previously in New Letters, Turnstile, Proteus, and Paper Radio. MARIANNE DEKOVEN teaches English at Rutgers University. A resident of Port Angeles, WA, ALICE DERRY's first collection, Stages of Twilight, was awarded the King's County Publication Award in 1986. A nursing student with some background in English, EISNER'S work has previoulsy appeared in Clock Radio and Howling Dog, among other places. A distinguished writer and journalist, JONATHAN FALLA is currently working with an international health team on the Thai-Burma border. RICHARD FEIERSTEIN is an Argentinian novelist, short-story writer and poet (also an architect by profession) who has written a great deal on Jewish themes and also on broader Argentinian issues. MOIRA FERGUSON teaches English at the University of Nebraska. GARY FINCKE is Writing Program Director and Men's Tennis Coach at Susquehanna University, PA: he is the recipient of a fiction fellowship from the PA Arts Council and author of poetry collection, The Days of Uncertain Health. BARBARA FOLEY teaches American literature at Rutgers-Newark. She is working on a history of proletarian writing during the 1930s. SESSHU FOSTER is a frequent contributor to mr. Director of the writing program at Oberlin, STUART FRIEBERT is the author of numerous collections of poems and translations, including the The Longman's Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. EVA GEULEN is a completing a doctorate in German at the Johns Hopkins University. After completing her essay on Angela Carter, MICHELE GROSSMAN decamped to Australia. Somewhere there is a structure there, visible only its effects, but we've not yet figured it out. NORMAN HARRIS is making his first appearance in these pages. We hope it won't be his last. DANIEL HILL is in the Ph.D. program at Rutgers University; his poetrty has appeared in the Antholoyg ofMagazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry 1986-87, Cutbank, NDQ, Kansas Quarterly, and Poet Lore. Having worked in daycare, teaching, and law, SUSAN HOLAHAN currently earns her living as an editor at Newsday. BETH HOUSTON, a frequent contributor to mr, teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and has poems forthcoming in The Literary Review, Confrontation, Red Cedar Review, Descant, Commonweal, 250 the minnesota review and Poem. JAMES IFFLAND teaches Spanish at Boston University in Madrid. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, LOWELL JAEGER'S first collection of poems, War On War, will be published by the Utah State University Press. If IVO KAMPS doesn't stop writing reviews for mr, he'll never finish his dissertation. We're taking a national poll to determine which would be preferable. JIM KATES, who lives in New Hampshire, is a widely published poet, a tireless translator of others' poems, and North American editor of Stand. A member of Amnesty International, JANINE KELLEY has recently taken up a post as a teacher of creative writing and computing to junior high school students in Leupp, AZ. Recently removed to LA to do graduate work, ALYCEE J. LANE is a graduate of Howard University and has taught at Emerson Prep in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the creative writing program at SUNY-Binghamton, CHRIS LOMBARDI presently works under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations. Having returned from a year in Brussells, ELIZABETH MACNABB is a completing a dissertation on feminist criticism. MICHAEL MESSMER teaches intellectual history of modern Europe at Virginia Commonwealth University. BARBARA MOORE'S poetry has appeared in Georgia Review, Salmagundi, and American Poetry Review. SHEILA MOORE lives in Virginia where she writes poetry, fiction, and articles on early childhood development. A freelance writer based in New York, PAUL MUOLO writes fiction and poetry, with work forthcoming in The Little...