Notes on Contributors
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Ellen Akins is the author of four novels and a collection of stories, World Like a Knife. She teaches in Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA program.
John Barth has won the National Book Award in fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. For many years he taught in the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. "Us/Them" is from The Development, a story-series about life in a fictional gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2008.
O. Bradley Bassler is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Georgia (Athens).
Rosellen Brown is the author of ten books, the most recent of which are the novels Half a Heart and Before and After and a reprint of her collection of stories, Street Games. She teaches in the MFA program of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Michael Blumenthal will publish a new collection of poems titled And with BOA Editions in the Spring 2009.
Isaac Cates is assistant professor of English and director of the Poetry Center at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. His criticism has appeared in Literary Imagination, Confrontation, and Indy magazine.
Claudia Emerson teaches at Mary Washington College in Virginia where she is a professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry. Her volume Late Wife: Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2006.
Richard Howard is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry and four volumes of criticism. His third book, Untitled Subjects, won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1970. He teaches in Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Andrew Hudgins teaches at the Ohio State University. His most recent book of poems is Ecstatic in the Poison.
John Dixon Hunt is professor of the history and theory of landscape in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written widely on the relations of literature and the visual arts, most notably in recent years on how they coincide in the garden. His books include Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000), The Picturesque Garden in Europe (2002), and The [End Page 360] Afterlife of Gardens (2004). He has recently completed a book entitled Garden Matters: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, to be published by Reaktion Books in 2008.
Karl Kirchwey is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which is The Happiness of This World (Marian Woods Books/Putnam). He is associate professor of the arts and director of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.
Brad Leithauser has published five novels and five volumes of poetry. His story in this issue is the first chapter of a new novel, The Art Student's War, that will be published in 2008. He will join the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars as a professor of fiction writing in the Spring of 2008.
Ronald Paulson published his most recent book, Sin and Evil, in 2007 with the Yale University Press.
Padgett Powell is the author of six books of fiction and teaches creative writing at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
Wyatt Prunty is the director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference at the University of the South, where he is a professor of English. His most recent volume of poems is Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, published in 1999.
David Slavitt's latest book is his translation Lucretius's Nature of Things published by the University of California Press. From 1963–65 he was the movie reviewer for Newsweek magazine.
Timothy Steele's books of poems include Toward the Winter Solstice and The Color Wheel.
Jack Wilgus is chair of the Photography department at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. His solo exhibitions include the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Rhode Island School of Design; and the University of Dayton.
David Wyatt is professor of English at the University of Maryland. His essay "Living Out the Sixties" is a chapter from his book-in-progress Secret History: Listening to Twentieth-Century American Literature. [End Page 361]
