Issue 30

Contributors

Margaret Avison first published poetry in 1939 in the Canadian Poetry Magazine. She began her first collection, The Winter Sun (Toronto) as a Guggenheim fellow in Chicago. She is a member of the Order of Canada, a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award (Canada's most prestigious literary prize). The Globe and Mail has called her "certainly among the best half dozen poets ever to publish in Canada."

Jen Bryant, who interviewed Lloyd Alexander 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) and her children's picture book Georgia's Bones (Wm. B. Eerdmans) will be published in 2001. She teaches at West Chester University.

Linford Detweiler has traveled and recorded with Over the Rhine since founding the group in 1989. He married singer Karin Bergquist in 1996. Information about their recordings, upcoming tours, and more can be found at www.overtherhine.com.

Denis Donoghue holds the Henry James chair in English and American Letters at New York University. His books include Words Alone (Yale), The Practice of Reading (Yale), and Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (Knopf). He has received the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lawrence Dugan's work has appeared in The New Republic, Southern Review, First Things, Chronicles, and Poetry East; his work from the latter was selected for inclusion in Poetry East's twentieth anniversary anthology. He is a librarian with the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Roger Feldman received an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship Grant in 1986. His site-specific sculpture has appeared in numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and England, including at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park. A permanent site-specific piece appears in the collection of the Washington State Arts Commission. Images of his work were recently featured in an article in the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Ira Gold has published fiction in many journals, including Madison Review, New Delta Review (Eyester Prize), Whiskey Island, and Green Hills Literary Lantern. He has recently completed a collection of stories, Tales from a Sacred World. He teaches literature at Touro College.

Randall Kenan teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. His books include the novel A Visitation of Spirits (Grove), the short story collection Let the Dead Bury the Dead (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and Walking on Water (Knopf), an account of the African-American experience at the edge of the new millennium.

Kelly Le Fave's recent poems have appeared in Tin House, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She also edits the journal jubilat. Currently, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

David McGlynn earned his B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in fiction at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His work has appeared in Faultline, The Ear, and Orange Coast Magazine.

James Ragan's books of poetry include In the Talking Hours (Eden Hall), Womb-Weary (Carol), The Hunger Wall, and Lusions (Grove). His off-Broadway plays include The Landlord and Commedia. He has received an NEA Fellowship and three Fulbright Professorships: in China, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. He teaches writing at the University of Southern California.

Catherine Sasanov is the author of Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way) and the libretto for Las Horas de Belen: A Book of Hours (Mabou Mines Theater Company), a theater piece which recently won a Village Voice Obie Award for performance. Her work has recently appeared in Field, America, Agni, Salamander Review, and is forthcoming in Commonweal.

Robert Siegel is the author of In a Pig's Eye (Florida), The Beasts & the Elders (Dartmouth), and The Ice at the End of the World (HarperSanFrancisco), among other books. His work has received prizes and awards from Poetry, The Transatlantic Review, and the NEA. He lives near the coast of Maine with his wife, Ann.

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.

Daniel Tobin's book Where the World is Made (Middlebury/Bread Loaf) won the 1998 Bakeless Prize for poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Doubletake, and in the anthologies The New American Poets (Bread Loaf), Urban Nature (Milkweed Editions), and the Anthology of Magazine Verse (Monitor). He teaches at Carthage College.

Jeanne Murray Walker's plays have appeared in theaters in Boston, Washington, the Midwest, and London. She has also published five volumes of poetry, most recently Gaining Time (Copper Beech). She has received an NEA Fellowship, two Lewis Awards for playwriting, and been named a Pew Fellow in the Arts. She teaches, reads, and lectures around the country.

Roger Williams lives in Hurricane, West Virginia. His work has appeared in Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Literature and Belief, The Gettysburg Review, and Image.