Issue 26

Contributors

Along with John Leax, Lionel Basney conducted the interview with Wendell Berry in this issue. A widely published poet and essayist, Basney was Professor of English at Calvin College until his death in 1999. He is the author of An Earth-Careful Way of Life and a long poem The Snow Plough Man. His essay, “Immanuel’s Ground” was selected as the Best Essay in the 1999 American Scholar Awards.

David Borofka is the author of The Island, a novel published by MacMurray & Beck, and Hints of Mortality, a collection of short stories that won the 1996 Iowa Award for short fiction. His essay “Underland” was included in Things in Heaven and Earth, an anthology edited by Harold Fickett.

Stephanie Cowell has published three novels with W.W. Norton set in seventeenth century England: Nicholas Cooke, The Physician of London (which won a 1996 American Book Award), and The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare. She is currently completing her third novel about Nicholas Cooke, and another set in the last days of the Alexandrian Library. She lives in New York City.

Albert Goldbarth’s most recent collection of poems is Troubled Lovers in History, published by Ohio State University Press, who will also publish a new collection, Saving Lives, at the end of 2000. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.

Jon Hassler has published eleven novels, most recently The Dean’s List; a story collection, Keepsakes; as well as My Staggorford Journal, his diary from the year he wrote his first novel. He lives in Minneapolis. An interview with Hassler appeared in Image #19.

John Leax, who conducted the interview with Wendell Berry in this issue, is Poet-in-Residence at Houghton College in New York state. His most recent book is Out Walking.

Kevin Meaux lives and works in Lake Charles, LA. He has published poetry in Poetry, The Southern Humanities Review and 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography. He received the 1999 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry.

Gary Miranda is the author of two collections of poetry, Listeners at the Breathing Place and Grace Period, both from Princeton University Press. A third collection is due out from Zoland Books in the spring of 2001. He has also translated Rilke’s Duino Elegies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Paul Mariani has published biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and—most recently—Hart Crane (The Broken Tower, Norton Paperback, 2000). Next year, Viking/Penguin will publish The Eastern Point Meditations: Reflections on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.

David Morgan chairs the Department of Art at Valparaiso University. He is the author of Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images and Protestants and Pictures. He co-edited with Sally M. Promey a forthcoming book, The Visual Culture of American Religions. Morgan wrote an essay on the art of Ed Paschke for Image #17.

Virginia Stem Owens is the author of many books, including Assault on Eden, Wind River Winter, Generations of Women, Daughters of Eve, and And the Trees Clap Their Hands. Her memoir, If You Do Love Old Men, received the Texas Institute of Letters Prize.
Owens is a founding editor of Image. Her memoir, Our Aunts' Tables, appeared in Image #1.

Eric Pankey is the author of five collections of poems, the most recent of which is Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000). He is professor of English at George Mason University.

Ann Patchett is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), and The Magician’s Assistant (1998). Patchett contributed an essay to the recent collection, Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited, edited by Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke.

Lynn Powell’ book Old & New Testaments won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin Press (1995) and The Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award (1996). She is featured in a recent PBS documentary on the pope, in which she discusses the pope’s poetry.

Peggy Rosenthal has a doctorate in English literature and gives retreats and courses on poetry and spirituality around the country. She is the author of The Poets’ Jesus and co-editor of the anthology Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry (both from Oxford University Press). Her home base as an independent scholar is Rochester, New York.

Catherine Sasanov is the author of the poetry collection Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way Books, 1996) and the theater piece Las Horas de Belén: A Book of Hours, commissioned by Mabou Mines Theater Company. Poems from her recently completed manuscript, Raise the Dead Inside My Given Name, can be found in Agni, Field, America, Marlboro Review, Salamander, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Mexico’s Debate Feminista.

Barbara Seaman is a fourth-generation Kansan and a graduate of the Conservatory of Music, Wheaton College. Recent poems have appeared in First Things, West Branch, The Other Side, and Mars Hill Review. Her poetry manuscript, Night Harvest, won the 1999 Ezra Pound Poetry Award.

Daniel James Sundahl is currently Russell Amos Kirk Professor in English and American Studies at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, where he has taught for nearly two decades.