Contributors

Contributors Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction WAYNE AMTZIS' poetry in English and in translation into Nepali has appeared in many journals, most recently Webster Review. TERRI BROWN-DAVIDSON's poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals. Her chapbook, Rag Man, won The Ledge 1994 Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest. JOSEPH CAMPBELL has recently finished an M.A. with a concentration in creative writing at East Carolina University. JIM DANIELS teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. His most recent publications include M-80 (Pittsburgh, 1993) and Niagara Falls (Adastra, 1994). DENISE DUHAMEL is the author of four books of poetry: Kinky (forthcoming), Girl Soldier (1996), The Woman with Two Vaginas, and Smile! (reviewed in n.s. 43-4). MICHELLE ESMAILIAN's work has appeared in South Coast Poetry Review, Ararat, Pacific Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at San Diego State University. TYE R FARRELL lives in the Vieux Carre. PAMELA HUGHES' poetry has appeared in many journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Ellipsis, Literature And Art, Riverrun, Impetus, and Magic Realism. She teaches at Bloomfield College. MANJU KANCHULI's poems appear regularly in Nepali publications. MICHAEL LESLIE is a freelance writer in Detroit and his work has appeared in Detroit's Metro Times, the Black Scholar, the Berkeley Fiction Review, and Obsidian II, among others. ANGELA L. LOVING's work has appeared in Artemis, Negative Capability, The Black Buzzard Review, and Kalliope. ROBERT E. MCDONOUGH has published No Other World (Cleveland State) and he teaches at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. JEFF MORROW lives in the French Quarter. KJERSTI A. REED currently teaches writing at the University of San Diego and Southwestern College, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals. 332 the minnesota review RACHEL M. RESNICK lives in Los Angeles, and has had work appear in Chelsea, Bakunin, Sensations, Chiron Review and Poetry Motel. BENJAMIN HEIM SHEPARD is a graduate student in policy at the University of Chicago. "Choosing Their Battles" is part of an oral history of the S.F. AIDS epidemic. MARK TAKSA's poems have recently appeared in Southern Poetry Review and College English. His chapbook, Cradlesong (Pudding House) won the 1993 National Looking Glass Competition. He teaches high school in Crockett, CA. SASHIKALA TIWARI is one of Nepal's foremost painters. LAURIE PERRY VAUGHEN's work has appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Kalliope, Poetry Miscellany, Charlotte Poetry Review, Greensboro Review and elsewhere. WILLIAM VIANT's poems have recently appeared in Poetry Motel, The G.W. Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. He works as a horticulturist. DONALD ZAREMBA is an Assistant Public Defender in Baltimore County, MD. His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Social Justice, and The Ledge, among others. Essays CRYSTAL BARTOLOVICH, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon, is currently on fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. EVA PAULINO BUENO teaches Spanish at Perm State, DuBois, and publishes on Brazilian and Latin American literature, including a recent book, Resisting Boundaries: The Subject ofNaturalism in Brazil. TERRY CAESAR's most recent book, on American travel writing, is Forgiving the Boundaries (Georgia, 1995). Recent essays appear in the Centennial Review and New Literary History. LENNARD J. DAVIS is an associate professor of English at Binghamton University, and his most recent book is Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body (Verso, 1995). MIKE HILL is an associate editor of the minnesota review, for which he is guest editing the upcoming issue on "Postwhiteness." NEIL LARSEN is the author of Modernism and Hegemony and Reading North by South (Minnesota, 1995) and teaches in the Modern Language department at Northeastern University in Boston. Contributors 333 JULIAN MARKELS is professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University, where he continues to teach part-time. His latest book is Melville and the Politics ofIdentity. GREGORY MEYERSON is presently completing a book entitled The Difference Class Makes: Marxism, Moral Realism, and American Literature. LOUISE MOWDER is finishing doctoral work in English at Rutgers University. JIM NEILSON is finishing a book on American literary culture and the Vietnam War narrative for the University Press of Mississippi, and is looking for a teaching job within the continental United States. RICHARD OHMANN's book on magazines and the origins of mass culture, Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and...