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1 9 0 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S DAVID BOTTOMS’s most recent book of poems is We Almost Disappear (Copper Canyon Press). ROMAINE BROOKS (1874—1970), born Beatrice Romaine Goddard into a troubled, wealthy family, was an American painter who worked primarily in portraiture in Paris and in Capri. Inheritance of a large fortune after her mother’s death in 1902 gained her independence. She began to draft her memoirs, never published in full, in the 1930s. The typescript including the selections in this issue was given to the Yale library by Norman Holmes Pearson, a founding figure of the Yale Collection of American Literature. WILL EAVES is author of three novels, including This Is Paradise; a collection of poems, Sound Houses; and The Absent Therapist, a volume of experimental fiction . He lives in the U.K. JOHN FOY is author of Techne’s Clearinghouse (Zoo Press). His poems are featured in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Swallow Press), and his work has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion , and Parnassus, among other journals . He has been a guest blogger for The Best American Poetry. ANTONIA FRASER, born Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham, is author of histories , biographies, novels, and detective fiction. Her books include Mary, Queen of Scots (1969), Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (1973), and The Weaker Vessel, a study of women’s lives in seventeenth-century England , winner of the Wolfson History Award in 1984. Her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter was published in 2010. The essay printed in this issue is part of the memoir My History, forthcoming this season from Nan A. Talese, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. NICHOLAS FRIEDMAN has published poems in The New Criterion, The New York Times, Poetry, and other venues. In 2012 he received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. DAVID GALEF is professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University. Recent books include the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books) and Kanji Poems (Word Press). VINCENT GIROUD’s Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music was published in the 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. BROOKS HAXTON’s many publications include books of poems (among others, They Lift Their Wings to Cry and Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms, both from Knopf), and translations from the German, French, and ancient Greek. His next book is My Blue Piano, translations of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler (due next month from Syracuse University Press). He has taught po- C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 9 1 R etry writing and literature for many years at several schools, including Syracuse University and Warren Wilson College. JOHN HENNESSY is the author of two collections , Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims. He is the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. PATRICIA HOOPER’s most recent book is Aristotle ’s Garden, winner of the 2003 Bluestem Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Hudson Review , The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other publications. JOHN KOETHE’s next book of poems, The Swimmer, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in March 2016. He is distinguished professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee . DAVID H. LYNN is professor of English at Kenyon College and the Banks Editor of The Kenyon Review. DAVID MASON’s latest collections are Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004—2014 (Red Hen Press), and Davey McGravy: A Story in Verse, illustrated by Grant Silverstein (Paul Dry Books). ELIZABETH METZGER is a writing instructor at Columbia University, where she recently completed the M.F.A. in poetry. Her work received the 2013 Narrative/Copper Canyon Poetry Prize and was included in...

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