3—Harold Fickett & Gregory Wolfe, Editorial Statement
Fiction
5—Larry Woiwode, Confessionals
19—Chris Campbell, The Green Game
Poetry
16 —Paul Mariani, A Toast for Little Iron Mike
40 —Andrew Hudgins, Botticelli: The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ
60 —Luci Shaw, Sudden Valley Road
75 —Robert Siegel, Snail
Interview
42 —A Conversation with Frederick Buechner
Visual Arts
23 —Steve Hawley, by Harold Fickett
63 —Thomas Gordon Smith, by Gregory Wolfe
Essays
65 —Thomas Gordon Smith, Habitations of the Spirit
76 —James J. Thompson, Jr., Does John Updike Write Dirty Books?
97 —John Farina, Dionysus in the Choir
Life in the Industry
89 —Shirley Nelson, The Search Begins
105 —Virginia Stem Owens, Our Aunts' Tables
Contributors
Chris Campbell is a graduate of Pitt and SUNY Binghamton; and he has been trained and is now working as a para-legal.
Harold Fickett is a Fellow of the Milton Center at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. He is the author of a novel, Holy Fool, and a critical study, Flannery O'Connor: Images of Grace. He is also co-editor of Image.
Andrew Hudgins teaches at the University of Cincinnati. His books of poetry are Saints and Strangers and After the Lost War: A Narrative. Hudgins's poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Kenyon Review.
Paul Mariani is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Among his books of poetry are Cocytus and Prime Mover. His biography, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, was nominated for the American Book Award.
Shirley Nelson is the author of the novel, The Last Year of the War. She lives in Albany, New York.
Virginia Stem Owens teaches at Texas A & M University. Her books include And The Trees Clapped Their Hands: Faith, Perception, and the New Physics and Wind River Winter.
Luci Shaw is a poet and editor who is Writer-in-Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She is author of four volumes of poetry, including Postcard from the Shore, and a prose work, God in the Dark.
Robert Siegel is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books of poetry are In A Pig's Eye and The Beasts & The Elders. His work has appeared in Poetry and The Atlantic and he has received awards from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the NEA.
James J. Thompson, Jr.'s books include Christian Classics Revisited, Fleeing the Whore of Babylon, and The Church, the South, and the Future. He is book review editor for New Oxford Review.
Larry Woiwode won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his first novel, What I'm Going to Do, I Think. His subsequent novels are Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Poppa John, and Born Brothers. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, and other journals.
Gregory Wolfe is Assistant Professor of English at Christendom College and director of Christendom Press. He is the author of After This Our Exile: Contemporary Literature and the Christian Imagination (forthcoming), and is the founder, and co-editor, of Image.
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