Contributors and Cover Credit

Cover

Mexican dance masks from the states of Veracruz, Tlaxcala, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, and Michoacan, mid to late twentieth century. From the collection of Eason Eige; digital image by Dika Eckersley. Used with the permission of Eason Eige, Andrews Pueblo Pottery and Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

Prose

Dorie Bargmann is a legal investigator and writer living in Austin, Texas.

William Black's work appears in Ontario Review, Hotel Amerika, Denver Quarterly, and Black Warrior Review.

Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of two books, Climbing the God Tree (Helicon Nine Ed) and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile (Zephyr).

Brendan Cooney's prose appears in Salon, Columbia Journalism Review, and Counterpunch.

Alden Jones directs Excel in Cuba, an academic summer program in Havana. Her writing appears in Agni, Puerto del Sol, and the Iowa Review.

Nancy Kern is a former high school English teacher. Her work appears in Antioch Review and Ontario Review.

Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away (Four Walls Eight Windows). His story in this issue is an excerpt from his book How Much of Us There Was, published in the United Kingdom.

David Roderick's work has appeared in Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, Ontario Review, and Quarterly West. He has been a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University.

Poetry

Christianne Balk is the author of Desiring Flight (Purdue UP) and Bindweed (Macmillan). Her poems appear in Ploughshares, the Atlantic, Harper's, Willow Springs, and Alaska Quarterly Review.

Tony Barnstone is the author of Impure (UP Florida) and the editor of The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor Books). His latest book, Sad Jazz Sonnets, is forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press.

Bruce Bond's most recent books include Cinder (Etruscan P), The Throats of Narcissus (U Arkansas P), and Radiography (BOA Ed).

Naomi Feigelson Chase's most recent book is Gittel, The Would-Be Messiah: A Novel in Verse (WordTech), winner of a Turning Point Press Award.

Michael Cornett is managing editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies published by Duke University Press.

Jan Freeman is the director of Paris Press and the author of Hyena, Simon Says, Autumn Sequence and a new collection, Proximity.

Alice Friman's new collection, The Book of the Rotten Daughter, will be out in 2006 from BkMk Press. Her work appears in Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Georgia Review, and Poetry.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the author of Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica Ed) and seven other books of poetry.

Emily M. Green is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marilyn Hacker's most recent book is Desesperanto (W. W. Norton). She received the Lenore Marshall Award from the American Academy of Poets in 1995 for Winter Numbers (W. W. Norton) for which she also won a Lambda Literary Award. Hacker received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.

Karen Head is the Writing Program Coordinator in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. Her collection, Shadow Boxes, is available from All Nations Press.

Herberto Helder is a Portuguese poet whose work is known throughout Europe. Portugal's leading post-surrealist experimentalist, he has been awarded most of Portugal's major literary prizes and has turned them all down on principal.

Roy Jacobstein is a public health physician working internationally in women's reproductive health. He is the 2002 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize for his book, Ripe (U Wisconsin P). Recent work appears in TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, and Gettysburg Review.

Joy Katz is the author of Fabulae (Southern Illinois UP). Her work appears in Verse, Pleiades, and Bomb.

Alexis Levitin has published translations in Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, New Letters, and Chelsea. He is the author of twenty books, most recently Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade (New Directions P).

Frannie Lindsay is the 2004 winner of the May Swenson Award for the book Where She Always Was (Utah State UP). Her poems appear in Harvard Review, the Atlantic...