Issue 31

Contributors

Ron Austin, a film and television writer and producer for many years, has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinema and the American Film Institute. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America and has been given two life-time achievement awards by the Guild for his service to writers and the community. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild, and was a founding member of Catholics in Media. Most recently, he was the Executive Producer of The Hidden Gift: War and Faith in Sudan, a feature-length documentary about the 'hidden holocaust' in Africa.

Tim Bascom, who sculpts in his spare time, is the author of a novel, Squatters' Rites (Cellar Book Shop), and a collection of essays, The Comfort Trap (InterVarsity). He is currently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa.

John B. Breslin, S.J., contributes regularly to America and other journals, and teaches contemporary Irish literature at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.

Scott Cairns' books include Recovered Body, The Theology of Doubt, The Translation of Babel, and Figures for the Ghost. His work appears in The Pushcart Prize 2002 Anthology, and his new book, Philo~Kalia: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Zoo Press next spring. He teaches at the University of Missouri.

Trevor Carolan is a Research Associate at the David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communications at Simon Fraser University, and writes and lectures on culture and ethics from Vancouver. A frequent contributor to Shambhala Sun, The Bloomsbury Review, Manoa, and other journals, he has published nine books including the best-selling environmental mystery for young readers, Big Whiskers Saves The Cove. His new memoir is titled Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg At Hollyhock (Banff Centre). See also: www.trevorcarolan.com.

Margaret Gibson has published seven books of poetry: Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems; The Vigil, a finalist for the National Book Award; Out in the Open; Memories of the Future, a co-winner of the Melville Care Award; Lory Walks in the Afternoon, a Lamont Selection; Signs; and Icon and Evidence. All titles are from Louisiana State University Press.

Larry Wayne Johns' poems have appeared in journals including The Christian Science Monitor, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and River Styx. He is a Ph.D candidate at Florida State University, where he was a Kingsbury Fellow.

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

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.

James J. McAuley lives in County Wicklow, Ireland. His books of poetry include After the Blizzard (University of Missouri), Recital (Dolmen), Coming and Going: New and Selected, and Meditations, With Distractions, both from the University of Arkansas Press.

Michael Mott lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has received the Christopher Award for his best-selling biography The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Houghton Mifflin). He has published four novels and eight collections of poetry, most recently, Woman and the Sea: Selected Poems (Anhinga).

Gina Ochsner is the mother of three children and writes as much as they allow. She has received the Raymond Carver Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize, and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Jennifer Spiegel studied political science and creative writing as an undergraduate at the University of Arizona. She has an MA in politics from New York University and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Arizona State University, where she also teaches English. She has received ASU's Martindale Award in Fiction, and is a nominee for Best New American Voices 2002.

Stephanie Strickland's manuscript in progress, "V," was awarded the Poetry Society of America's 2000 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize and will be published by Penguin. In addition to the electronic hypertext True North, which won a Salt Hill Hypertext Prize, she has published three volumes of print poetry: True North (University of Notre Dame), The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil (University of Wisconsin), and Give the Body Back (University of Missouri).

Barbara Sutton lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Larcam Review, and Pleiades, and is forthcoming in Agni.

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.

Laurie Zimmerman's poetry is published or forthcoming in The English Journal, Iris, and Christian Century. She is the former poetry editor of Radix magazine, and now teaches English at Proctor Academy in Andover, New Hampshire. She is the author of Hidden Branch (Carmarthen Oak).