Issue 23

Contributors

Gilbert Allen teaches at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His most recent collection of poetry is Commandments at Eleven (Orchises Press). His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and The Cortland Review.

A.V. Christie’s first book of poems, Nine Skies, appeared in the National Poetry Series in 1996. A recent NEA Fellowship recipient, her poems have been published in Iowa Review, American Scholar, Poetry Northwest, and Boulevard, among others. She was Visiting Poet at Bryn Mawr College in the spring of 1999.

William Coleman is the managing editor of Image. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The New Criterion, and Third Coast.

Deborah Joy Corey’s stories have been published in many magazines and quarterlies. Her novel, Losing Eddie, (Algonquin Books), won the Smith Books/Books in Canada First Novel Award and is now being developed as a feature film. Her story “Dennie’s Mouse” appeared in Image #9.

Alfred Corn’s seventh book of poems, Present, was published in 1997 by Counterpoint. Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992 is scheduled with Counterpoint for this fall. He has also written a novel, Part of His Story (Mid List Press) and edited a collection of essays, Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament.

Brad Davis earned his B.A. from Gordon College, his M.Div. from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, and his M.F.A. in creative writing from Vermont College. He is a chaplain and has taught religion and creative writing at Pomfret School in Connecticut since 1987. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Puerto del Sol, Cresset, and Newport Review.

Tom Fontana is executive producer of OZ, HBO’s first hour-long dramatic series, and Homicide: Life on the Street, the award-winning series on NBC, whose final season was this year. He was a also a writer/producer on St. Elsewhere and wrote the ABC special The Fourth Wiseman. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater, Buffalo State College.

Gregory Gillespie’s paintings have been exhibited at the Forum Gallery and Cooper Union in New York, the Nielsen Gallery in Boston, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts in Chicago, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary in San Francisco, and in group shows in major museums across the country. His work is in collections at the Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney, the Hirshhorn, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and in many other national museums.

Stephen Haven’s poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, Salmagundi, and other journals. He is an associate professor of English at Ashland University, and an associate editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. Two of his poems appeared in Image #16.

Michael Heher is the pastor of Saint Irenaeus Catholic Church in Cypress, California.

David Impastato is the editor of Upholding Mystery, an anthology of contemporary Christian poetry (Oxford University Press). He has published on the subject of contemporary poetry and Shakespeare on film, and his own poetry has appeared in the Sewanee Review.

Josephine Jacobsen is one of America’s most distinguished writers. Her honors include the Lenore Marshall Award and a Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

Jeffrey Johnson’s poems have appeared in First Things, Christianity and Literature, Anglican Theological Review, and in several anthologies. An essay on Jerusalem appeared recently in Encounter. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Mary McCleary is Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her work has been exhibited widely in Texas, as well as in New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., and in galleries or museums in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and New Mexico. She is currently represented by Adair Margo Gallery in El Paso, Texas.

Gerald Reilly’s poem “easter” appeared in Image #21. His stories and poems have also been published in Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly, and The Gettysburg Review. A recent story was a prize winner in the 1999 O. Henry Awards collection.

Wayne L. Roosa is a Professor of Art History at Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota. His B.F.A. and B.A. were earned at the University of Colorado, Boulder; his M.A. and Ph.D. at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Wayne Roosa would like to thank Thomas Toperzer for his generous help. It was through Toperzer’s research on the role of biblical themes in contemporary art that Roosa became aware of Mary McCleary’s work. Previously director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Toperzer is now Director of MAINSITE Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma.

Stephanie Strickland’s book of poems, True North, won the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Prize and appeared as the Sandeen Prize volume from the University of Notre Dame Press. Her other books include the Brittingham Prize-winning The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil (University of Wisconsin Press), and Give the Body Back (University of Missouri Press).

Kathleen Wakefield’s chapbook, There and Back, was published by State Street Press. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry, among others.

Lisa Yanover’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and New England Review. She lives in Northern California, where she is completing a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature through the University of Houston.