Issue 19

Contributors

Jan Lee Ande’s poetry has appeared in Iowa Woman, Yellow Silk, Studia Mystica, and Nimrod—for which she was a 1997 Pablo Neruda noted finalist. Poems are forthcoming in the anthology The Community of Saints (Story Line Press). She teaches at The Union Institute College of Undergraduate Studies.

Tim Bascom is a sculptor and freelance writer living in Kansas. He is the author of a book of nonfiction, The Comfort Trap: Spiritual Dangers of the Convenience Culture, and a novel, Squatters’ Rites, published in the Philippines. His essay in this issue of Image is part of a collection in progress—Glimpses: A Spiritual Travelogue.

Ed Block, who conducted the interview of Jon Hassler, is Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and editor of Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. He has interviewed novelist Larry Woiwode and poet Denise Levertov for different issues of Renascence. He has also published many scholarly essays on Victorian literature and critical theory.

Bo Caldwell was a Stegner Fellow and a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University. Her essays appear frequently in The Washington Post Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Epoch, and other journals. She lives in Northern California with her husband, novelist Ron Hansen, and their two children. She is at work on a novel.

William Dyrness is the Dean of the Graduate School of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he also serves as Professor of Theology and Culture. He is the author of many books, including Learning About Theology from the Third World (Zondervan) and, most recently, The Earth is God’s: A Theology of American Culture (Orbis Books).

Stuart Dybek is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short stories, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods and The Coast of Chicago, and a book of poetry, Brass Knuckles. His work has received numerous prizes including the PEN/Malamud Award, and four O. Henry Awards. He teaches in the writing program at Western Michigan University.

Patricia Hampl is the author of two memoirs, A Romantic Education and Virgin Time, as well as two collections of poetry and a prose meditation, Spilleville (about Antonin Dvorak’s 1893 summer in Iowa). Her new book of essays on memory and imagination, I Could Tell You Stories, will be published in 1999. She is Regents’ Professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she teaches creative writing.

David Brendan Hopes is the author of the Juniper Prize and Saxifrage Prize winning The Glacier’s Daughters, A Sense of the Morning (non-fiction), The Penitent Magdalene, and Blood Rose. His memoir, A Childhood in the Milky Way is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press. He is Professor of Literature and Humanities at UNCA.

Maggie Kast has been teaching, choreographing and performing modern dance in the Chicago area for the last thirty years. She currently directs Kast and Company, offering concerts and workshops in modern and liturgical dance. From 1994-97 she was Assistant Professor of Theatre and Television Arts at Valparaiso University, and she is currently teaching at Columbia College, Chicago. In 1995 she received the Chicago Dance Coalition’s Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Dance Community.

X.J. Kennedy’s recent books include Dark Horses: New Poems and a novel for children, The Eagle as Wide as the World. Other new poems appear in the anthology Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry, edited by Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal (Oxford University Press).

Edward Knippers is a painter and printmaker living with his wife, Diane, in Arlington, Virginia. His work has been included in over 100 exhibitions, over fifty of which have been one-man shows and invitationals. These include exhibitions at the Virginia Museum in Richmond, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Cheekwood in Nashville, TN. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Billy Graham Museum in Wheaton, IL; the University of Oklahoma Museum in Norman, OK; the Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Rome; and, most recently, the Grünewald Print Collection at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Chaim Potok is an ordained rabbi and the author of the best-selling and much-loved novels The Chosen (which was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award) and The Promise (which won the Athenaeum Prize). His novels My Name Is Asher Lev and The Gift of Asher Lev (which won the National Jewish Book Award) dramatize the religious and cultural conflict between a young cutting-edge painter and his Orthodox Jewish family and community. Mr. Potok’s other books include Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews, In the Beginning, The Book of Lights, and Davita’s Harp, and, most recently, The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family.

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.

Dabney Stuart’s poem in this issue is a selection from a longer sequence of poems of the same name, to be published in his new book, Settlers. He has published fifteen volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism over the last thirty-two years, most recently, Long Gone (poems, LSU Press) and The Way to Cobbs Creek (stories, University of Missouri Press). He has held two literary fellowships from the NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He teaches seventeenth-century literature and creative writing at Washington and Lee University.

Richard Wilbur’s latest book, The Disappearing Alphabet—a book for “children and amusable adults”—will be published this fall from Harcourt Brace. Two other books are in preparation—a translation of Moliere’s Don Juan and a new book of poems as yet untitled.