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•JL.A.._JLI__.JI.....·„.__.*...............JL... REBECCA ArONSON teaches writing at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, where she also serves as co-editor for The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press. She has poems (recently or forthcoming) in Tin House, Cimarron Review, The Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol, The Seattle Review, Phoebe, and others. RlCK BASS is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonficiton. For complete notes, see interview on page 38. JASON Lee BROWN teaches at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. His work has appeared in the Green Hills Literary Lantern, Spoon River Poetry Review, Margie, Concho River Review, and Pearl, and his journalism recently won an award from the Illinois Press Association. JEFFREY S. CRAMER is editor of the forthcoming: What I Lived For: An Annotated Selection from Thoreau's Journals. He is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Waiden Woods, and has also edited Waiden: A Fully Annotated Edition and Thoreau on Freedom: Attending to an: Selected Writings ofHenry David Thoreau. Cramer's essays and other writings have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, and The Formalist, among others, and have appeared in such collections as Contemporary Literary Criticism and The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Ann DARBY was the recipient of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and is the author of the novel The Orphan Game, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. She has received the Prairie Schooner Reader's Choice Award, as well as the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart and Henfield prizes. Her short fiction was listed among the "Recommended Stories" in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005, and has appeared in The Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, The Manhattan Literary Review, and The Best of Story Quarterly, among others. She lives in New York City and Hillsdale and is trying hard to learn to garden. 183 Ecotone: reimagining place Born in Denver, Colorado, BURNS ELLISON grew up in Nebraska. He attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City in the 1960s. His most notable achievement from that period is a memoir published in The Iowa Review titled "The First Annual Nelson Algren Memorial Poker Game." In the 1990s, he got the graduate degree he didn't get from Iowa from the University of Colorado in Boulder. What he's done best in pursuing the literary life is acquiring those jobs that look good on the jacket of a book. These include working with disturbed kids in California, driving dog teams in Colorado, and being a shill in Nevada casinos. He now wants to get published the book that goes with the jacket. KlMI FAXON is a founding editor of Ecotone. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she currently teaches English composition and literature. BARBARA Fisher's art combines both representational and abstract elements, hints at a narrative, and is illusionist while embracing abstract form and the physicality of paint. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Colorado and studied at San Francisco State University. She currently lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work was recently selected to be included in the upcoming publication, The Best of North Carolina Artists and Artisans, which will be published in 2006. She has also been chosen to serve as a panelist to select the recipients of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Awards. Her website is www.barbarafisher.com. RlCHARD Garcia is the author of Rancho Notorious, BOA Editions. His poems have recently appeared in Sentence, The Notre Dame Review, Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares. He is the recipient of a Pushcart prize and has a poem in Best American Poetry 2005. His next volume of poetry, The Persistence ofObjects, is forthcoming from BOA in 2006. ANDREW C. GOTTLIEB lives and writes in Seattle where he received his MFA from the University of Washington in 2000. His poetry chapbook , Halflives, has just been released from New Michigan Press and other work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including the American Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Briar CliffReview, and...

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