Issue 29

Contributors

Robert Cording has published three volumes of poetry, Life-List, winner of the Ohio State University Press Prize; What Binds Us to this World (Copper Beech); and Heavy Grace (Alice James). He has just completed a fourth volume, Against Consolation. His recent work appears in Chelsea, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and in Best Spiritual Writing, 1999 and 2000 editions. He teaches at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Terrence E. Dempsey is a Jesuit priest and founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at St. Louis University, where he holds the May O'Rourke Jay Endowed Teaching Chair in Art History and Theology. He has written numerous articles and lectured internationally, including recently at Oxford University and the Irish Theological Society in Dublin.

Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland. He is the author of Credo (St. Mary's), an essay collection, and co-author with his father Jim Doyle of Two Voices (Liguori).

Patricia Hooper is the author of Other Lives (Elizabeth Street), which received the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and At the Corner of the Eye (Michigan State). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and other magazines.

Kathleen L. Housley is a freelance writer whose work has appeared frequently in The Christian Century. She is an Affiliated Scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. "Adam Dreams of Darwin's Finch" is part of a series of poems about science and religion based on Genesis.

Mark Jarman's latest collection of poetry is Unholy Sonnets (Story Line). His previous collection, Questions for Ecclesiastes, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism and co-author of The Reaper Essays. His book of essays, The Secret of Poetry, is forthcoming from Story Line. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Mary Kenagy is the managing editor of Image. A Seattle native, she graduated from Stanford University and has an MFA from Arizona State. Her work has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal.

Janine Langan is professor emerita at the University of Toronto, where she founded and developed the degree-granting Christianity and Culture Program, which "insures access to the Christian fact, past and present, in a scholarly setting." She has published widely in Communio and other journals, and lectures world-wide.

Christine Lehner's novel, Expecting, was published by New Directions. Her stories have appeared in New Directions anthologies, Agni Review, North American Review, Chelsea, and Image.

Larry Lockridge, professor of English at New York University, has written on aesthetics in Coleridge the Moralist (Cornell) and The Ethics of Romanticism (Cambridge). His biography of his father, Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County (Viking Penguin), received the MidAmerica Award.

Robert Manaster lives and works in Champaign, Illinois. His poetry has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, JUDAISM, and Wisconsin Review. He has been a finalist in the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Competition (Story Line) and the Headwaters Literary Competition (New Rivers).

Jean-Luc Marion is professor of philosopy at the University of Paris, Nanterre, and teaches part of the year at the University of Chicago. His work proposes new approaches to theology, beyond post-modern challenges and the liberal-conservative impasse. His English titles include God Without Being (Chicago), The Idol and Distance (Fordham), and Reduction and Givenness (Northwestern), which received the Grand Prix du Philosophie du l'Académie Française.

John McAndrew is a poet and diocesan priest serving Saint Angela Merici Chruch in Brea, California. In addition to regular parish duties, he directs retreats and workshops. His poetry is published here for the first time.

Walt McDonald was an Air Force pilot and now teaches writing at Texas Tech. His books include Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State), Counting Survivors (Pittsburgh), and Night Landings (Harper & Row). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and Kenyon Review. In March 2000, Christianity and Literature published a special issue on his work.

Erin McGraw's work has recently appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, and The Georgia Review. A new novel, The Baby Tree, will be published in the fall of 2001. She has received Yaddo and Wallace Stegner Fellowships, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and the Pushcart Prize. She serves as associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Eugene Peterson is professor emeritus of theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. His books include The Message (NavPress), A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (InterVarsity), and Eat this Book: The Holy Community at Table with Holy Scripture (Regent).

Brooks Williams is a singer/songwriter whose CDs include Hundred Year Shadow, Knife Edge, Ring Some Changes (a collection of instrumental duets with Jim Henry), Seven Sisters, and the recently released instrumental, Little Lion. His song "All That Is Gold" (based on a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien) was nominated for Indie Song of the Year in 1993 by the BMA.

Lisa Yanover's poetry has previously appeared in Image, The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish-American Literature, and Hayden's Ferry Review. A native of northern California, she has lived in Ohio, Israel, and Texas, and is currently back in California completing a doctorate in creative writing and literature through the University of Houston.