Issue 28

Contributors

Brock Brower has written for Esquire, LIFE, and Smithsonian Magazine, and has received an O. Henry Award for his short fiction. As a TV writer and producer he helped create 20/20 and 3-2-1 Contact! His novels include The Late Great Creature (Atheneum).

Jen Bryant, who interviewed Donna Jo Napoli, Eileen and Jerry Spinelli in this issue, has published poetry in The Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly, among others. Her collection Hand-Crafted (Nova House Press) and her children's picture book Georgia's Bones (Wm. B. Eerdmans) will be published in 2001. She teaches at West Chester University.

Thomas Hawks' work has appeared in the Antioch Review, Seneca Review, The Plum Review, and the Western Humanities Review. He works for the Telluride Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ingrid Hill's work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, North American Review, STORY, Shenandoah, and in the anthology New Stories from the South (1999). Her book Dixie Church Interstate Blues (Viking Penguin) was published in 1989.

Sara Hong is seventy-two-years old and has very poor vision. She has been writing as a hobby for many years. Her poems have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Georgia Review, and in haiku magazines.

Paul Mariani, who interviewed Edward Hirsch in this issue, is one of America's leading poets and literary biographers. He has written biographies of poets William Carlos Williams (which was nominated for a National Book Award), John Berryman, and Robert Lowell (a New York Times notable book for 1994). His most recent book of poems is The Great Wheel (Norton, 1996).

William Miller teaches literature and creative writing at York College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of poetry and eleven books for children. Most recently, his poems have appeared in The Southern Review and Literature and Belief.

Les Murray won the 1997 T.S. Eliot Prize for his collection Subhuman Redneck Poems and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999, mainly for his verse novel, Freddy Neptune. He lives and works in New South Wales, Australia. His work is published in the United States by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Judith Rock, for many years dancer, choreographer, and director of Body and Soul Dance Company in Berkeley, California, is now a writer living in New York City. She also performs her one-woman show, Response Time, and is a lecturer in art and communication at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

James Romaine is an art historian who lives and works in New York City. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His recent essay, "Creator, Creation, and Creativity," appears in the anthology It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God (Square Halo Books). His other writings can be found at www.faithandart.org.

Martha Serpas, a recent graduate of the University of Houston's creative writing program, teaches writing at the University of Tampa. She also received a master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. Her most recent work appears in Uncommonplace (LSU Press), an anthology of Louisiana poets.

Hwee Hwee Tan's award-winning short stories have been broadcast on the BBC and published in Critical Quarterly, Pen International, and New Writing 6, edited by A.S. Byatt. She has studied creative writing at NYU as a New York Times Fiction Fellow. Her novels are Foreign Bodies (Persea) and the forthcoming Mammon Inc.

John Terpstra has published six books of poetry, most recently The Church Not Made with Hands (Wolsak & Wynn) and Devil's Punch Bowl (Saint Thomas Poetry Series). He has also released a CD of poetry read to music, Nod Me in, Shake Me Out.

Doug Thorpe is the author of A New Earth (Catholic University of America Press) and the editor of the anthology, Work and the Life of the Spirit (Mercury House). A contributor to Parabola, Terra Nova, Mars Hill Review, and other journals, he teaches literature and writing at Seattle Pacific University.

Kathleen Wakefield's chapbook, There and Back, was published by State Street Press. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry, among others. This Fall, Anhinga Press published her Notations on the Visible World, a book of poems.

Larry Woiwode received the William Faulkner Award for the first of his many novels, What I'm Going to Do, I Think (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His stories have appeared in magazines such as Harper's and The New Yorker, and he has been selected four times for the annual Best American Short Stories compilation. His most recent book is Aristocrat of the West: The Story of Harold Schafer (North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies).