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1 9 1 R C O N T R I B U T O R S ANN BEATTIE is author of many collections of short stories, including Distortions, Secrets and Surprises, The Burning House, Perfect Recall, and The New Yorker Stories; and novels, including Chilly Scenes of Winter , Falling in Place, Picturing Will, Another You, and The Doctor’s House. Her many honors include the Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. CRAIG BLAIS’s first poetry collection, About Crows (University of Wisconsin Press), was awarded the 2013 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and a Gold Medal from the Florida Book Awards. PETER CAMERON is the author of six novels, including Andorra and Coral Glynn, and three collections of short stories. He lives in New York City. HOPE COULTER’s poetry collection, The Wheel of Light, is forthcoming this spring from BrickHouse Books. Last year she was awarded the Laman Library Writers Fellowship . She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, and teaches at Hendrix College. 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. IRVING FELDMAN’s Collected Poems, 1954– 2004 was published by Schocken Books. For many years he taught at the State University of New York, Bu√alo. His current project is Clay Laughs, a collection of aphorisms. DAVID GALEF is professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University. His latest book is the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books). His second poetry collection, Kanji Poems, is forthcoming from Word Press. LORRIE GOLDENSOHN’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Yale Review , and Salmagundi. Her work on war poetry includes Dismantling Glory (2003) and An Anthology of American War Poetry (2006). Her most recent publication on Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry appears in The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014). In preparing the essay in this issue, she wishes to acknowledge endlessly suggestive and useful discussion with David Hoak and Ronald Christ. Others who contributed their insights on psychoanalysis and early childhood experience include Drs. Phyllis Cath and Doris Blum, as well as trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Further thanks go to Raymond Oliver and John Anzelone for help with translating French. ROBERTO GONZALEZ ECHEVARRIA is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Among his many books are The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball, Celestina’s Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures, and Love and the Law in Cervantes. In 2011 President Barack Obama awarded him the NationalHumanitiesMedalandin2014he won, in his native Cuba, the literary criticism award for his Lecturas y relecturas. 1 9 2 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y SCOTT HIGHTOWER is the author of four books of poetry and Hontanares, a bilingual (Spanish-English) collection, Devenir , Madrid (2012). He is the editor of the bilingual anthology Women Rowing: Mujeres A Los Remos, Mantis Editores (2102). A native of central Texas, he lives and works in New York and sojourns in Spain. ERNEST HILBERT is author of two collections of poetry, most recently All of You on the Good Earth (2013). He hosts the blog E-Verse (www.everseradio.com). Caligulan is forthcoming from Measure Press this fall. MARK JARMAN’s most recent collection of poetry is Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. JOHN KINSELLA’s most recent books of poetry are Jam Tree Gully (W. W. Norton, 2012) which won the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and Sack (Picador , UK, 2014). He is Professor of Sustainability and Literature at Curtin University , a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. ARTHUR KIRSCH is an emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Virginia . His extensive work on Shakespeare and on W. H. Auden includes The Passions of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes, an edition of Auden’s Lectures on Shakespeare, and Auden and Christianity. SHEILA KOHLER is the author of many...

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