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  • Contributors

Michael Barnes is a British Jesuit who teaches interreligious relations at Heythrop College, University of London. He has written a number of articles and books, notably Walking the City (ISPCK, 1998) and Theology and the Dialogue of Religions, (Cambridge University Press, 2002). For a number of years he has been responsible for the De Nobili dialogue centre in Southall, a strongly multicultural area of West London. During that time he has been working on a study of the effect of interreligious engagement on the practice of faith, to be published in 2012 as Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination (Cambridge University Press). m.barnes@heythrop.ac.uk

Anja Bührer lives in Berlin, Germany and works as a lighting technician in a Berlin theatre. She started photography about four years ago, and, soon after, it turned out to her chief passion. Because of her job as a lighting technician, she especially enjoys working with lights, shadows and reflections. She also enjoys creating her "own worlds" with photoshop. http://www.fotoblur.com/portfolio/latoday; http://latoday.deviantart.com/; latoday.23@gmail.com

Robert Davis is a doctoral student in the history of Christianity at Harvard University, with an emphasis on medieval Christian spirituality and anthropology. His interests include the history of biblical interpretation, theories of gender and sexuality, and medieval conceptions of nature and the cosmos. He is currently working on a dissertation about affect and embodiment in the writings of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. davis@fas.harvard.edu

Karen Donovan's first collection of poetry, Fugitive Red, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. For 20 years she co-edited Paragraph, a journal of short prose published by Oat City Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and works in Providence, RI. donovan.rumble@gmail.com

Michael Downey is Diocesan Theologian and Director of Continuing Formation of Priests, San Bernardino, CA. Editor of The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, his most recent book is The Heart of Hope (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2008). A member of the editorial board of Cistercian Studies Quarterly, he is Founding North American Editor of Spirituality, an international [End Page 273] journal of the spiritual life. His Living the Justice of the Triune God (with David N. Power) will be published by Liturgical Press in 2012. tamd-owney@gmail.com

Toni Frissell (1907-1988) was an American photographer, best-known for her fashion photography, World War II photographs and her portraits of famous Americans and Europeans, including Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, and her photographs of women and children from all walks of life. Her initial job, was a fashion photographer for Vogue in 1931. She later took photographs for Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated and Life Magazine. In 1941, she volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross and later she joined the Eighth Army Airforce and became the official photographer of the Women's Army Corps.

Marc Harshman's eleven children's books include The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book. Besides three chapbooks, his poems have been anthologized in publications by Kent State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Georgia, and the University of Arizona. Prose poems and flash fiction have recently won awards from the Newport Review and Literal Latté and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. marcharshman@hotmail.com

Kathleen Henderson Staudt works as an educator, writer, retreat leader and spiritual director, teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary. Her writing has appeared in Weavings, Christianity and Literature, Sewanee Theological Review, and The Anglican Theological Review. She is the author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics (University of Michigan, 1994); Annunciations: Poems out of Scripture (Mellen Poetry Press, 2003); and Waving Back: Poems of Mothering Life (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her blog is at www.poetproph.blogspot.com; Kathleen.staudt@gmail.com

Edward Howells is Lecturer in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London. He has written John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Knowing and Selfhood (Crossroad, 2002) and has edited, with Peter Tyler, Sources of Transformation: Revitalising Christian...

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