Issue 32

Contributors

Alfonse Borysewicz has received two Pollack-Krasner Grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting. His work appears in private and public collections including those of Microsoft and General Electric. His next exhibits will take place this February and March at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and this November at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle.

Hugh Cook has published three books of fiction: Cracked Wheat and Other Stories, The Homecoming Man, and Home in Alfalfa, all with Mosaic Press. He is professor of English at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. His essay was originally delivered as the 2001 Stanley Wiersma Memorial Lecture at Calvin College.

Jeanine Hathaway is the author of Motherhouse (Hyperion), an autobiographical novel. Her poetry appears in The Georgia Review, America, River Styx, DoubleTake, and others. As the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, her collection The Self as Constellation will be published by University of North Texas Press. She has taught writing and literature at Wichita State University since 1974.

Robert Royal is president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, DC. His essays appear in Crisis, First Things, Communio, the Washington Post, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The American Spectator. His most recent book is The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive Global History (Crossroad).

Valerie Sayers is the author of five novels, including Brain Fever and Due East, both from Doubleday. She is a frequent reviewer for the Washington Post, Commonweal, and the New York Times Book Review, and has received an NEA fellowship in fiction. She is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

M. Rae Thon's books include the novels Meteors in August (Random House), Iona Moon (Poseidon), and most recently Sweet Hearts (Houghton Mifflin), as well as the story collections First, Body (Houghton Mifflin) and Girls in the Grass (Random House). Her work has appeared the Best American Short Stories, and she has received a Whiting Writers Award as well as grants from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the University of Utah.

Brian Volck, a pediatrician, lives in Cincinnati with his wife and children. His poems have appeared in DoubleTake, America, and Sow's Ear Poetry Review.

Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, where he concentrates primarily on the relation of modern fiction to Christian faith.