Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Philip Baruth, English professor at the University of Vermont, published his first novel, The Millenium Shows, in June 1994 (San Francisco: Albion Books). His short stories have appeared in numerous journals, and the most recent, "Peaheart," won the Black Warrior Review's Literary Award for Fiction, 1993-1994. Shelley Ellis is a doctoral student in the higher education department at Montana State University, where she has taught freshman and sophomore composition and technical writing for eleven years. Her dissertation focuses on the interface between developmental writers and word processors. David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies at Arizona State University, where he directs the Spanish Graduate Program; he is past editor of the Rocky Mountain Review. In addition to courses in contemporary, cultural, and literary theory, Foster's research focuses on an ideological analysis of contemporary Argentine and Latin American narrative and theatre, with a specific emphasis on gender issues. Stephanie Sarver is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in English at the University of California at Davis. She is currently writing her dissertation, which considers nineteenth- and twentieth-century American agrarian literature within the context of environmental philosophy and ecology. Her work on Nathanael West is forthcoming in LiteratureIFilm Quarterly. Anne Mullin is a faculty member in the Department of English and Philosophy, as well as the director of the Writing Lab, at Idaho State University. A native of Boston, her poems have appeared in College English, Black Fly Review, and Plainswoman. George Perreault, English professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane, is the founding editor of Research and Reflection: A Journal ofEducational Praxis. His first book of poetry, Curved Like An Eye, was published by Ahsahta Press in 1988. Last year, Singular Speech Press published his second book of poetry, Trying To Be Round. Perreault's poems have also appeared in numerous journals including Shenandoah, Greenfield Review, High Plains Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, and New Mexico Humanities Review. Deborah B. Schwartz is an Invitational Assistant Professor and Visiting Fellow with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. In fall 1995, she will begin a position as assistant professor in the English Department at Polytechnic State University. Schwartz recently completed her dissertation , "Seeking the Path of Romance: Chrétien de Troyes and the Tristan Tradition," at Princeton University and has previously published on the seventeenth-century novelist, Mme de Villedieu. Sandra Gail Teichmann lives on a farm in rural northern Florida where she teaches writing at Florida State University and leads poetry workshops at a shelter for runaway youth in Tallahassee. Last summer she was Writer in Residence in Amery, Wisconsin, as part of the NEA and NALAA Arts Corps Project. Her poems have appeared in The Hollins Critic, Kansas Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Cimarron Review, Writers' Forum, Poet Lore, and other literary journals. ...