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Z O IXi Contributors£ Stephano Benni is the author of a collection of poems, Terra! (1983); a P¡children's book, I Meravigliosi Animali di Stranalandia (1984); a collection j2entitled The Café Beneath the Sea (1984); and two novels, Badi (1990) and Q Spiriti (2000). Pn Anthony Cristofani was released from the overburdened California prison system November 2002 and is now completing his degree in philosophy at UC-Riverside. Chad Davidson's poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Colorado ^hReview, Doubletake, TheParis Review, Pequod, Pod Lore, and others. His first QJcollection of poems, Consolation Miracle, won the Crab Orchard Prize. Robert Dorsett is a physidan, poet and translator living in Berkeley. He studied Chinese full time for four and a half years at the Yale-in-China program, The Chinese University, Kowloon. Claudia Grinnell teaches at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her poems have appeared in various print and ezines, and her first fulllength book of poetry, Conditions Horizontal, was published by Missing Consonant Press in 2001. May Hall teaches at Hamilton College and is completing her first collection of short stories. S. W. Ko is a writer living in Berkeley. Gail Koplow has been writing poems since she was five years old. Her first poem was published in the Boston Globe's childrens' pages when she was six. Aimee LaBrie teadies writing courses in English at Penn State University. Her fiction appears in Quarter After Eight, Sudden Stories, Beloit Fiction, Pleiades, Permafrost, among other journals. Marella Feltrin-Morris teaches Italian at Binghamton University. Her most recent translation is Domenico Losurdo's Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death, and the West, published by Humanity Books. Craig Paulenich is associate professor at Kent State University-Salem. Fred Pfeil lives in Hartford, Connecticut, and works for his living in Trinity College's English Department. He is co-editor, with Modhumita Roy, ofA Singular Voice, an anthology of Michael Sprinker's essays and correspondence , forthcoming from Verso in 2003. Murzban F. Shroff spent sixteen years in an advertising selling cars, condoms , gold, soaps, toothpicks and trousers. He is the recipient of theJohn Gilgun Fiction Award for the year 2003. Amy Spade lives in Ney York City and teaches at Baruch College. Her poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Western Humanities Review, and Chiron Review, among many other places. Caroline Studer a graduate of Toledo Hospital School of Nursing, worked in Intensive Care-Coronary Care and then as a hospital supervisor. She has a M.A, in creative writing from the University of Colorado. 332 the minnesota reviewContributors Rebecca Warner teaches at the University of Massadiusetts. She received her M.F.A. from Bennington. Her poems have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Paterson Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. C/3 Michael Bernard-Donals is Hoefs Professor of English at the University ^ of Wisconsin, where he teaches rhetorical and critical theory. His most W recent book is Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust (Wisconsin, 2003). Marc Bousquet teaches at the University of Louisville and is founding edi- > W W P^ tor of Workplace: A Journal ofAcademic Labor. In early 2004 several of his ~jr essays on academic labor will be reprinted in the journal WorL· and Days ^1 under the title "Information University: Rise of the EMO." ^J Dominic Boyer teaches anthropology at Cornell University. His current reC /3 search and teadiing interests center on media and public culture, profesen sionalism and expertise, and the social lives of intellectuals in Germany and the United States. Leonard Cassuto teaches at Fordham University. Author of The Inhuman Race; the Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture (Columbia, 1997), he is currently working on a literary and cultural history of twentieth -century crime fiction. Scott Cohen, currently a Mellon-Sawyer fellow in World English, is completing a dissertation on global British fiction and empire at the University of Virginia. Richard Daniels, recently retired from Oregon State University as a medievalist , has published scholarly articles, journalism, poems, and stories. Marjorie N. Feld, assistant professor of History at Babson College, is currently at work on Lillian D. WaId and Mutuality in Twentieth-Century America. Lisa Fluet, assistantprofessor atTrinity University, is...

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