Issue 12

Contributors

Edward Bartók-Baratta has published poems in many journals including the Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Cross Currents, and Southern Poetry Review. A group of his poems will soon appear in translation in the Italian poetry journal Steve.

Murray Bodo, OFM, is a Franciscan priest and the author of thirteen books, most recently The Almond Tree Speaks: New and Selected Writings, 1974-1994. His Francis, the Journey and the Dream has sold 160,000 copies and been translated into five languages. Frequently publishing in literary magazines, Fr. Bodo is presently writer-in-residence at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky. His contribution to this issue is adapted from a book about retreats that he is writing for Dial Press.

Lawrence Dorr is the nom de plume of a Hungarian-born American. In 1988, his third short-story collection, A Slight Momentary Affliction, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mr. Dorr lives in Florida on a twenty-acre horse farm/family compound with his wife, children, and grandchildren. The place is used as a background for many of his stories.

Robert Flynn is novelist in residence at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The most recent of his five published novels, North to Yesterday, was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. He has published two story collections and a nonfiction narrative, A Personal War in Vietnam. His dramatic adaptation of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying was the U.S. entry at the Theater of Nations in Paris in 1964 and won a Special Jury Award.

Gordon Fuglie directs the Laband Art Gallery of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. With Jewish artist Ruth Weisberg and art historian Andrea Liss, he is organizing the spring 1996 exhibition “Sisters and Brothers,” Professor Weisberg’s “tabernacle” of encaustic paintings inspired by the stories of Jacob and Esau, and Leah and Rachel. Mr. Fuglie’s research frequently focuses on the tensions between modernity and contemporary religious art production.

Ron Hansen’s books include four novels: the 1991 best-seller Mariette in Ecstasy, the soon-to-be-published Atticus (excerpted in this issue), Desperadoes, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. His short-story collection Nebraska received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The film version of Mariette in Ecstasy, which Mr. Hansen wrote the screenplay for, will come to movie theaters in 1996.

Marjorie Maddox has published poems in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. An associate professor of English at Lock Haven University, in Pennsylvania, she has also published fiction in the Sonora Review and Great Stream Review. Her first full-length book of poems, Perpendicular as I, won Sandstone Publishing’s National Poetry Award and was published in 1995.

Paul Mariani is one of America’s leading poets and literary biographers. He has written book-length biographies of poets William Carlos Williams (which was nominated for the National Book Award), John Berryman, and most recently, Robert Lowell (a New York Times notable book for 1994). His fifth book of poems, The Great Wheel, will be published by W.W. Norton in 1996 and will include the two poems published in this issue of Image. Mr. Mariani served as the dean of the1995 Glen Writers Conference co-sponsored by Image and The Milton Center.

Ben Frank Moss is a painter and an art professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. His work has been exhibited around the country, and is sold at the New York and Washington, DC galleries listed below.

Linda Pastan is one of America’s leading poets. Her ninth book of poems, An Early Afterlife, has recently been published by W.W. Norton. Ms. Pastan was poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 through 1994.

Lawrence Russ’s poetry has appeared in Parabola, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, Iowa Review, and five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse. He received a 1992 Artist Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Richard Wilbur is considered by many to be one of the best poets of our generation. The poet laureate of the United States from 1987 to 1988, he has published seven collections of poetry, which have won national and international awards including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bollingen Prizes, and the National Book Award.