Issue 13

Contributors

Richard Alleva is film critic for the journal Commonweal and a contributor to the journal Crisis. He is also an actor, librarian, and storyteller. Mr. Alleva toured Europe and the United States for two years with the National Players, a drama troupe originating from Catholic University in Washington, DC.

Price Caldwell is an associate professor of English at Mississippi State University and the director of the creative writing program there. He has published stories in the Georgia Review, New Orleans Review, Mississippi Review, and Carleton Miscellany. One of his stories was reprinted in the 1977 edition of Best American Short Stories.

DeWitt Clinton is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In 1994 he won the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize sponsored by the University of Southern California. He has recently completed a manuscript of poems, On Tour in the Holy Land.

Kate Daniels’s first book of poems, The White Wave, won the Starrett Award from the University of Pittsburgh, and her second book, The Niobe Poems. A former poet in residence at Wake Forest University, she currently is part of the core faculty of the MFA program at Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Todd Davis has published poems in Yankee, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Radix, and other journals. He is a professor of English at Goshen College in Indiana.

Richard Freis is a professor of classics at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi. He has published poetry, criticism, classical and modern literary scholarship, and the libretto of an opera, Achilles, for composer Alva Henderson. He is completing a novel entitled Confession.

Dana Gioia’s 1991 book of essays, Can Poetry Matter?, won critical acclaim and national attention for its critique of the state of letters in America. He has published two collections of poems (the most recent being The Gods of Winter), a translation of Seneca’s play The Madness of Hercules, and, soon, a volume entitled The Barrier of a Common Language: Essays on British and American Poetry. Mr. Gioia’s poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Hudson Review, and other journals and magazines.

Bruce Kuhn played the third beggar from the right in Les Miserables on Broadway, starred in a movie shown on cable TV in Taiwan, toured with the musicals Chess and Cotton Patch Gospel, and spent three seasons with Actors Theatre of Louisville. Most recently, he toured university campuses with his one-man shows The Gospel of Luke and Acts. He is currently living in the Netherlands and writing a novel.

Katherine Paterson is one of America’s most acclaimed and best-selling novelists for young adult readers. Her novels have won two Newbery Awards and two National Book Awards.

Theodore Prescott is a sculptor who is chairman of the visual and theatrical arts department at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He edits the newsletter of Christians in the Visual Arts, and serves as an editorial advisor to Image.