Issue 18

Contributors

Emily Archer , who conducted the interview of Denise Levertov, is an independent scholar, teacher, and poet whose work has appeared in Cross Currents, The Merton Annual , and Studies in the Literary Imagination, among others. She is currently writing a book about Levertov and the tradition of psalming. She lives in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters.

Diann Blakely, who published previously as Diann Blakely Shoaf, has work in recent issues of the Paris Review, Parnassus, Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Ploughshares , as well as Pushcart XIX and XX . Her first book, Hurricane Walk , was published in 1992 by BOA, and a new collection, Farewell, My Lovelies, will be published by Story Line Press later this year. The poetry editor of the Antioch Review, she has recently been appointed writer-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall school in Nashville.

Ray Bradbury, one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our century, has published some thirty books, including Farenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He has also written for theater and cinema, receiving an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay of John Houston's adaptation of Moby Dick. In 1982, he created the interior metaphors for Space Ship Earth at Epcot, Disney World. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and is at work on his next collection.

David Citino's essay in this issue will appear as the foreword to his book The Book of Appassionata: Collected Poems , to be published in 1998 by Ohio State University Press. He is professor of English and creative writing at Ohio State University, and the author of eight collections of poetry, among them The Appassionata Doctrines (Cleveland Sate University Poetry Center), Broken Symmetry , and The Discipline: New and Selected Poems, 1980-1992 . Twenty-five of his poems appear in Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry (Oxford University Press).

David Craig is an Associate Professor of English at Franciscan University in Steubenville. His first novel, The Cheese Stands Alone, was recently published, and his next book of poems, The Roof of Heaven, is forthcoming from Franciscan University Press.

Denise Giardina is the author of three previous novels, including Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth. She teaches at West Virginia State College and is a licensed lay preacher of the Episcopal Church.

Leo Luke Marcello has published the poetry collections The Secret Proximity of Everywhere and Blackrobe's Love Letters. His poems have appeared in America, Commonweal, Southern Review, Forkroads, and Greenfield Review, as well as in anthologies. He is an associate professor in the department of languages at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Time Being Books will publish his Nothing Grows in One Place Forever: Poems of a Sicilian American in 1998. His poem in this issue will appear in his forthcoming book Silent Film , to be published by Mellen Press.

Paul Mariani 's fifth book of poems, The Great Wheel, was published by W.W. Norton in 1996. He has written authoritative 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 biography of the poet Hart Crane will be published by W.W. Norton in 1998. Mr. Mariani served as the dean of both the 1995 and 1996 Glen Writers Conferences co-sponsored by The Milton Center and Image. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet and the author of Dakota: A Spritiual Biography, The Cloister Walk, and three volumes of poetry, the most recent of them Little Girls in Church . She has been in residence twice at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and has been, for ten years, an oblate of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota. She and her husband, the poet David Dwyer, live in South Dakota.

Judith Rock is an actress and writer, currently performing her one-woman show, Response Time. A lecturer in art and communication at Union Theological Seminary (NY), she is also part of A Loose Association, formed with tap dancer Tom Knutson, to take tap and rhythm to churches as part of worship. She lives with her husband, Jay, in New York City, where she is an auxiliary police officer with the NYPD.

Catherine Sasanov 's first book of poems is Traditions of Bread and Violence, published by Four Way Books. The recipient of a 1997 NEA Literature Fellowship, she is currently commissioned by Mabou Mines Theater Company to write Las Horas de Belén, a theater piece about a 17th century Catholic women's sanctuary that later became Mexico City's worst prison.

John Skillen , a specialist in classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature, is chairman of the English department at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachussetts. He leads undergraduate summer seminars in Florence.

Daniel James Sundahl is an English professor and director of Hillsdale College's American studies program. His articles, book reviews, and poems have appeared in publications including the Southern Poetry Review, First Thing, Commonweal, and Humanitas. Mellen Poetry Press has published two of poetry collections, Loss of Habitat, now in its second print, and Hiroshima Maidens: imaginary translations from the Japanese.

John Terpstra's fifth book of poetry, The Church Not Made With Hands, will be published this spring.

Steve Weathers teaches writing and literature at Abilene Christian University in Texas. He is currently working on a Ph.D. at Florida State University. His stories have appeared in Sun Dog and Snake Nation Review .

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Among his many books are Art in Action, Works and Worlds of Art, and Lament for a Son. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures, and has served as President of the Society of Christian Philosophers.