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  • Contributors

Stephen Behrendt is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, where he is a specialist in British Romantic literature and culture. His fourth book, Refractions, was published by Shechem Press (in Spokane) in the fall of 2014.

Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Aiken Taylor Award and the National Humanities Medal in 2012. His most recent collection of essays is Our Only World; his most recent book of poems is A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015. He lives and works with his wife Tanya Berry on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

Ann E. Berthoff has written essays and reviews on many subjects for this magazine for over half a century.

Catharine Savage Brosman has three books in press: Music from the Lake, a collection of informal essays, of which some appeared in this magazine (2016); Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness, a literary study (2016); and A Memory of Manaus, a collection of poetry (2017). Recent poems of hers appeared in Modern Age, First Things, and Able Muse.

Robert Buffington is completing the authorized biography of Allen Tate.

Peter Cooley’s ninth book of poetry, Night Bus to the Afterlife, was published by Carnegie Mellon in 2014. He is Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University in New Orleans and Louisiana Poet Laureate.

Kathleen Ford has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern Review, the North American Review, the Antioch Review, and elsewhere. “Man on the Run,” first published in the New England Review, was published in Best American Mystery Stories 2012. Her first novel, Jeffrey County, was published by St. Martin’s Press. In 2011 she was awarded a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, and in 2015 she received a Hackney Literary Award. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is writing stories about Irish maids and the soldiers of World War i and is completing a novel about the Great War.

R. S. Gwynn has recently retired from Lamar University after teaching there for forty years.

David Heddendorf, a contributor to these pages since 2008, also writes for the Southern Review.

Pat C. Hoy ii has now retired from full-time teaching at New York University, where he directed the expository writing program. His essay “Warring with Words” earned this magazine’s Monroe K. Spears Prize in 2014 for the best essay.

George Keithley’s recent books are a collection of poems, Night’s Body (2016); the epic poem The Donner Party (2011); and a novel, Ring of Fire (2015). He lives in Chico, California.

Robert Lacy’s essays, short fiction, and book reviews have appeared in numerous publications over the past thirty years. He is the author of a collection of short stories, The Natural Father (New Rivers Press).

Mel Livatino has been publishing essays in the SR since 2004. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

David Mason is a poet, essayist, and dramatist. His opera of The Scarlet Letter with composer Lori Laitman had its professional premiere at Opera Colorado this past May.

Donna Mintz is a visual artist whose work is held in the permanent collections of such institutions as the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Mobile Museum of Art. Her paintings and installations examine silence, memory, and place, and, like the work of writer James Agee, are about seeing deeply. She is a writer-in-residence at Rivendell Writers’ Colony, a fellow of the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, and an M.F.A. candidate at Sewanee School of Letters, the University of the South.

George’s Monteiro’s recent books include Reading Henry James, The Pessoa Chronicles (Poems 1980–2016), and 38 School Street: A Memoir. [End Page xxxix]

Michael Mott is a long-time contributor to the SR.

Merritt Moseley, chair of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, has been a contributor to the Sewanee Review since 1980. He is the author or editor of books on numerous recent British novelists, on the academic novel, and on the Booker Prize.

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