Issue 21

Contributors

Jennifer Atkinson is the author of The Dogwood Tree (University of Alabama Press). Her recent work can be seen in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Field, and The Yale Review. She teaches creative writing and literature at George Mason University.

Scott Cairns teaches in the creative writing program at Old Dominion University. His poetry collections include Recovered Body, Figures for the Ghost, and The Translation of Babel.

Allen Grossman’s most recent books are The Ether Dome: Poems New and Selected (New Directions) and The Long Schoolroom: Essays (University of Michigan Press). He is the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

Albert Haley is the Writer-in-Residence at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of Exotic, winner of the John Irving First Novel Prize. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and most recently in the anthology, Shadow & Light: Literature and the Life of Faith.

Ron Hansen is the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University. He is the author of four novels, including Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy. His short story collection Nebraska received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Jean Janzen is a poet living in Fresno, California. She teaches poetry writing at Fresno Pacific University and Eastern Mennonite University. A recipient of an NEA grant in 1995, her poems have appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. Her latest collection is Snake in the Parsonage (Good Books).

Gerald Reilly’s story, “Leaving St. Caspar’s,” appeared in issue #14 of Image. His fiction and poetry have also appeared in Virginia Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, and Gettysburg Review.

Charles Shere is a composer, biographer, and a critic of both art and music. He is the author of Thinking Sound Music: The Life and Work of Robert Erickson.

Louis Simpson’s Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology (Story Line Press) recently won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award given by the Academy of American Poets. Other recent publications are a memoir, The King My Father’s Wreck, and a collection of poems, There You Are (both published by Story Line). He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize.

Joann Smith has published in The Greensboro Review, Best of Writers at Work 1994, The Texas Journal of Women and the Law, and Journal of the Gulf War. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories and a novel of historical fiction.

Mary Swander’s latest book is an edited collection of essays (with Patricia Foster) entitled The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery (Dutton). She is the author of three books of poetry and a widely read memoir, Out of this World. She teaches at Iowa State University.

Alexander Theroux is the author of Primary Colors , and its sequel, Secondary Colors . He lives in Cape Cod.

Philip Yancey, who conducted the interview of John Updike, is the author of fifteen books, including Where is God When it Hurts, The Student Bible, Disappointment with God, and What's So Amazing About Grace? He writes a monthly column for Christianity Today and serves as Co-Chair of the Editorial Board for Books and Culture .