Issue 27

Contributors

Ben Birnbaum is editor of Boston College Magazine. His work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, Midstream, Nimrod, and Portland Magazine. The essay in this issue of Image was written with support from the Jesuit Institute at Boston College.

Fr. Murray Bodo is a Franciscan Friar and member of the Franciscan Academy. His latest book is Tales of an Endishodi: Father Berard Haile and the Navajos, 1900-1961. His chapter on Holy Orders appears in Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments and two of his poems are forthcoming in The Paris Review. Poetry as Prayer: Denise Levertov will be published by Pauline Books and Media this fall.

Hilary Brand, who interviewed Sister Wendy Beckett in this issue, was until recently Chair of the Arts Centre Group, a national organization for Christians working professionally in arts and media within the United Kingdom. A freelance writer and photographer, she co-authored Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts together with Adriennne Chaplin, and has just completed
A Sceptic’s Guide to Reading the Bible. She has also written four novels for children.

Deborah Joy Corey’s stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Mademoiselle, The Agni Review, Fiction, The Crescent Review, The Windsor Review, Yankee, The Carolina Quarterly, New Letters, Best Stories from New Writers, and The Northcote Anthology. Reprints of her work have appeared in two writing textbooks: Three Genres and What If? Her novel, Losing Eddie, was published by Algonquin Books in 1993 and won the Books In Canada First Novel Award.

Daniel Corrie’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Scholar, Cross Currents, and Shenandoah. In Atlanta, he is a writer and consultant developing training programs and publications related to family crisis intervention and the prevention of child maltreatment.

Dennis Covington is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he directs the creative writing program. His most recent book, Salvation on Sand Mountain (Addison-Wesley), was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1995. He has also published two novels, Lasso the Moon (1995), and Lizard (1991). Covington has published stories and essays in many periodicals, including The New York Times, The Oxford American, and Georgia Review. He and his wife, novelist Vicki Covington, recently published Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage.

Recent work by Paul Dunlap appeared in The Greensboro Review and is forthcoming in The Monserrat Review. He teaches Creative Writing and other English courses at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. He has acted with local theater companies.

Allison Funk has published two books of poems, Living at the Epicenter, which won the Morse Prize (Northeastern University Press, 1995), and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986). She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and prizes from Poetry magazine and the Poetry Society of America. Her work was selected for The Best American Poetry, 1994, and has been published in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, The Journal, The Iowa Review, and Poetry Northwest. She teaches at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

A. G. Harmon has written several novels and has contributed essays, interviews, and fiction to Image. He has also published an essay in Things in Heaven and Earth, an anthology edited by Harold Fickett. He recently completed his doctorate in English, concentrating on Shakespeare. He teaches at The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America.

James Hoggard has just been named Poet Laureate of Texas. His novel, Trotter Ross, has just been reissued in paperback (Wings Press). His most recent collection of poems is Medea in Taos & Other Poems (Pecan Grove Press, 1999). He was also named co-winner in the spring of 1999 of the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for literary translation for Alone Against the Sea: Poems from Cuba by Raul Mesa (Toronto: York Press, 1998).

Norman Lear has had a distinguished career as a producer, director, comedy writer, screenwriter, political and social activist, and philanthropist. Known to the American public as the creator of Archie Bunker and All in the Family, Lear’s numerous television credits include Sanford & Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and the dramatic series, Palmerstown, U.S.A. His motion picture credits include Fried Green Tomatoes, Stand By Me, and The Princess Bride. He has received numerous awards including four Emmys, the National Medal of the Arts, and has been inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. The founder of People for the American Way, Mr. Lear is currently Chairman of ACT III Communications.

Mary Oliver is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and essays. She has received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. Her most recent books are Winter Hours and The Leaf and the Cloud.

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 Ed Blackburn’s work.

Floyd Skloot has poems forthcoming in The Hudson Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Salmagundi, Virginia Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Poetry, and American Scholar. His most recent collection was Music Appreciation (University Press of Florida, 1994); his next, The Evening Light, is forthcoming from Story Line Press.

Elizabeth Spires’s most recent books are Worldling (Norton, 1995) and The Mouse of Amherst (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999). She received the Witter Bynner Award in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College. A new book of poems, and a children’s book, I Am Arachne, are forthcoming.

Walter Wangerin, Jr.’s novel, The Book of the Dun Cow, won the National Book Award in 1980. He has also published books in a variety of other genres, from children’s literature to practical theology, including Mourning Into Dancing, Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace, and The Book of God. His new book, Paul: A Novel, is excerpted here with the permission of Zondervan Publishing. Wangerin is a professor of creative writing and Writer in Residence at Valparaiso University.