Contributors
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Ann Marie Adams is an assistant professor of English at Morehead State University, where she teaches courses in 20th-century British and postcolonial literatures. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including Modern Drama, Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, and Yeats Annual.
Betty Adcock, Writer-in-Residence at Meredith College in North Carolina, is the author of five books of poems, including Intervale: New and Selected Poems, published by Louisiana State University Press this spring. She has received both the Texas Institute of Letters Prize for Poetry and the North Carolina Award for Literature. Born and reared in deep East Texas, she has lived in North Carolina since 1957.
Apollo Amoko is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Tina McElroy Ansa is the author of three novels: Baby of the Family, her first, named "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times; Ugly Ways; and The Hand I Fan With. She is currently at work on her fourth novel, You Know Better. Ansa grew up in Macon, Georgia, and graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta to become the first black woman to edit and write for the Atlanta Constitution, the city's morning newspaper. Since 1984, she and her husband, filmmaker Jonée Ansa, have lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia; they are currently working (she as executive producer, he as director) on the film adaptation of Baby of the Family.
Gerald Barrax was born in Attalla, Alabama, and moved with his family to Pittsburgh at age ten. In 1969 he returned to the South to teach at North Carolina State University until 1997, when he retired as Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence, and Editor of Obsidian II. He is the author of five volumes of poems, Another Kind of Rain, An Audience of One, The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods, Leaning Against the Sun, and From a Person Sitting in Darkness: Selected and New Poems. He now lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Barbara Baumgartner is a lecturer in Women's Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Madison Smartt Bell, a native of Tennessee, is author of two short story collections and ten novels, including The Washington Square Ensemble, Waiting for the End of the World, Straight Cut, The Year of Silence, Doctor Sleep, Ten Indians, Soldier's Joy (winner of the Lillian Smith Award in 1989), and Save Me, Joe Louis. His eighth novel, All Soul's Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. Master of the Crossroads, his tenth novel, was published by Pantheon in October 2000. He directs the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College.
D.C. Berry, born and reared in the Mississippi Delta, is a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Georgia Review, The South Carolina Review, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Mississippi Review, The North American Review, Southern Voices, Poetry Now, Kansas Review, and The Southern Review. [End Page 374]
Wallace Best is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He recently received the PhD in American history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was born in North Carolina.
Sydney Blair, whose stories have appeared in various magazines and journals, received the Virginia Prize for Fiction for her novel Buffalo. As a child, she moved frequently but spent much time in the South. She has lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for several years and teaches fiction writing at the University of Virginia.
Diann Blakely is author of three collections of poems, the most recent being Cities of Flesh and the Dead, the 1999 winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is a poetry editor of the Antioch Review and co-editor of Each Fugitive Moment: Essays, Elegies, and Memoirs on Lynda Hull. Her poems have appeared in a number of periodicals, including Crab Orchard Review, The Oxford American, and Parnassus. A native of Alabama, she now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Van K. Brock, originally from Georgia, is professor emeritus...
