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1 9 5 R C O N T R I B U T O R S PAULA BOHINCE’s third collection of poems, Swallows and Waves, will be published this season by Sarabande. BILL CHRISTOPHERSEN’s debut collection of poems, Two Men Fighting in a Landscape, was recently published by Aldrich Press. A traditional musician as well as a writer, he lives and works in New York City. BONNIE COSTELLO is Professor of English at Boston University and the author of many books and articles on modern poetry. She is currently completing The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others. Her literary essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Straddler, The Southern Review, War, Literature and the Arts, and The Gettysburg Review. ABIGAIL DEUTSCH’s criticism appears in Poetry , the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications , as well as on NPR. In 2013, she won the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. She was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. DEWEY FAULKNER has taught at Yale and at the University of San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper, television , and radio as a music critic. VINCENT GIROUD’s Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music was published last spring by Oxford University Press. He is currently at work on an annotated edition of the complete music criticism of Reynaldo Hahn and on a book about O√enbach ’s Tales of Ho√mann, co-edited with Michael Kaye. MARY GORDON’s many books include novels, memoir, and literary criticism. She is a recipient of the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . The Liar’s Wife, four interlocked novellas , was published recently by Pantheon . Her most recent novel is The Love of My Youth (Pantheon). She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG teaches creative writing at the University of Hartford, where he is associate professor of English. His most recent collection of poems, Space Traveler, was published by the University of Tampa Press (2014). His earlier books include Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. DANIEL HALL, the Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College, is the author of three collections of poems, Hermit with Landscape , Strange Relation, and Under Sleep. The former was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; the latter for the National Poetry Series in 1996. JUDITH HALL is the author of four poetry collections, including Three Trios (2007), and the recipient of Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill fellowships. JEFFREY HARRISON’s fifth collection of poems, Into Daylight, was published by Tupelo Press in 2014 as the winner of the Dorset Prize. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The New Re- 1 9 6 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y public, The Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, AGNI, Image , and elsewhere. CLIVE JAMES, journalist, broadcaster, translator , and critic, is author of the autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs and the study Cultural Amnesia. Recent work includes the essay collection Poetry Notebook : 2006-2014 and Sentenced to Life, Picador (U.K.). GREG JOHNSON’s books include the novels Pagan Babies (Dutton) and Sticky Kisses (Alyson), as well as five collections of short fiction, most recently Women I’ve Known: New and Selected Stories. He is also the author of Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton), as well as a frequent reviewer of fiction, poetry, and literary biography. CHARLES MARTIN is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award for Literature. His Ovid translation won the 2004 Harold Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets . His books include Starting From Sleep: New and Selected Poems (The Overlook Press), What the Darkness Proposes, and Steal the Bacon, all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. MOLLY McQUADE has published both prose and poetry in The Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Threepenny Review, and other journals. She recently wrote a letter to Picasso about Jacqueline’s neck, included in her most recently completed project...

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