Issue 33

Contributors

Neil Azevedo has recently published poems in The New Criterion, Raritan, and The Paris Review. He has received the B.F. Conners Prize and an Academy of American Poetry Award. He is currently writing a reader's guide to Walt Whitman for Columbia University Press and is an editor at Zoo Press. The poems in this issue are excerpted from his longer poem "Witness."

Catharine Savage Brosman's publications include The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays (Louisiana State) as well as four poetry collections. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Sewanee Review, Critical Quarterly, The American Scholar, and others. She is professor of French emerita of Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. A new collection of prose, Higher Ground and Other Essays (Nevada), and a new volume of verse, The Muscled Truce (Louisiana State) are forthcoming.

Frank Desiderio, CSP, is president of Paulist Productions and a member of the Paulist Fathers. He has produced documentaries for A&E and the History Channel on prayer and healing, the lives of the apostles, and other topics. He has worked in radio, campus ministry, as a chaplain for the Olympic Village in Los Angeles in 1984, and has taught both preaching and communication.

Ginger Henry Geyer's sculpture has been exhibited at the Center for the Arts & Religion in Washington, D.C., and throughout the Southwest. She lives with her family in Austin, Texas, where she is both student and adjunct professor at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. She is also an art consultant for the H.E. Butt Foundation's Laity Lodge.

Diane Glancy writes fiction, poetry, plays, and essays. Her most recent books include the novels The Man Who Heard the Land (Minnesota Historical Society) and The Mask Maker (Oklahoma). Her collections of essays include The Cold-and-Hunger Dance and Claiming Breath (both from Nebraska), which won the American Book Award and the Native American Prose Award. She is associate professor at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mark Jarman, who reviewed Elaine Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just, was also interviewed in this issue. A biographical note appears on page 63. This August 4-11, Jarman will teach poetry at the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more on the Glen, click here.

Rod Jellema has twice received NEA fellowships, and was formerly the director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland. His books include The Eighth Day: New and Selected Poems (Dryad). He is currently at work on a book on the early history of New Orleans jazz. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod, International Poetry Review, Sojourners, Many Mountains Moving, Christian Century, Visions-International, Perspectives, Atlanta Review, and others.

Janice Lee, a former books section editor at Elle and Mirabella, is a graduate student in the Hunter College MFA program. Her fiction has appeared in theatlantic.com and has received the Wet Ink award from the Asian American Writers Workshop and A. Magazine.

Bret Lott is the author of five novels, two story collections, and a memoir, including The Man Who Owned Vermont, A Stranger's House, A Dream of Old Leaves (all from Viking), and Jewel (Pocket Books). He teaches creative writing at the College of Charleston and at Vermont College and edits the journal Crazyhorse.

Jennifer Maier teaches literature and creative writing at Seattle Pacific University and is currently completing her first volume of poetry, The School of Weeping. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, Pearl, The Comstock Review, and other journals.

Paul Mariani is one of America's leading poets and literary biographers. He has written biographies of William Carlos Williams (nominated for a National Book Award), John Berryman, Robert Lowell and—most recently—Hart Crane; the last two were New York Times notable books. His most recent book of poems is The Great Wheel (Norton). He is currently at work on a biography of the Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Jim Murphy is a professor of English at the University of Montevallo. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun (Kent State), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, and his poems appear in Brooklyn Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and other journals. His criticism and book reviews have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Impact Weekly, and elsewhere.

Mary Oliver is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and essays. She has received both the Pulitzer Prize (in 1984) and the National Book Award (in 1992). Her most recent book is The Leaf and the Cloud (Da Capo).

Theodore Prescott chairs the Art and Theater Departments at Messiah College. He has exhibited his sculpture widely and completed several public commissions. He is currently working on a fountain in a plaza adjacent to the Roofless Church complex in New Harmony, Indiana, to be dedicated this June. His work is in The Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art and the Armand Hammer Museum.

Jeanne Murray Walker's recent poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and Shenandoah. Her latest book is Gaining Time (Copper Beech). She is the poetry editor of Christianity and Literature. Among her many awards is a recent Pew Fellowship in poetry.

R.J. Wiebe calls himself a new but not a young writer. He is completing the Master of Christian Studies program at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., where his thesis project deals with humor in short fiction. He has written on business ethics, and before returning to school he worked in private practice as a dentist.