Issue 36

Contributors

Dick Allen’s collection The Day Before: New Poems is forthcoming this April from Sarabande Books. His previous collection, also from Sarabande, is titled Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected. His work has appeared four times in The Best American Poetry anthology series, as well as in Poetry, The Yale Review, The New Republic, and other journals. His many awards include an NEA fellowship.

Bruce Bond’s most recent books include The Throats of Narcissus (Arkansas) and Radiography (BOA Editions), winner of the Natalie Ornish Award. He is professor of English at the University of North Texas and poetry editor of American Literary Review. A new book, Cinder, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press.

Ilana Blumberg is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. A second excerpt from her book manuscript, “Houses of Study,” will appear this winter in the Michigan Quarterly Review. Her work has been awarded prizes and grants by Barnard College, the Jewish American Cultural Project, and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Kate Campbell’s music blends gospel, soul, R&B, folk, and Celtic influences. She has been featured on All Things Considered and in The Oxford American’s Southern Music series, and her Moonpie Dreams and Visions of Plenty have each been nominated for Folk Album of the Year by the Nashville Music Awards. For more, visit www.katecampbell.com. Her most recent album is titled Monuments.

Kate Daniels’s books of poetry include The White Wave, The Niobe Poems (both from Pittsburgh), and Four Testimonies (Louisiana State). She has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Crazyhorse Prize, Pushcart Prize, Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, and James Dickey Prize. For twenty years a teacher, she is currently an associate professor at Vanderbilt University.

Diane Glancy writes fiction, poetry, plays, and essays. Her most recent books include a novel, The Mask Maker, and a collection of plays, American Gypsy (both from Oklahoma). Her collections of essays include The Cold-and-Hunger Dance and Claiming the Breath (both from Nebraska), the latter of which won the American Book Award and the Native American Prose Award. She is a professor at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ingrid Hill’s work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, North American Review, STORY, Shenandoah, and three times in the anthology New Stories from the South. Her book Dixie Church Interstate Blues (Viking Penguin) was published in 1989. She is a 2002 NEA fellow. A new novel, Ursula, Under, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Mark Jarman’s latest books are the poetry collection Unholy Sonnets and the essay collections The Secret of Poetry and Body and Soul (Michigan). His previous poetry 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. He teaches at Vanderbilt University. All titles except Body and Soul are from Story Line Press.

Rodger Kamenetz is a poet and essayist. His books of poetry include The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems (Time Being) and Stuck: Poems Midlife (Time Being). He won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought for Stalking Elijah (Harper) and is poetry editor of Forward. A new book of poems, The Lower Case Jew, is forthcoming from Northwestern.

Mary Kenagy, who reviewed Erin McGraw’s novel in this issue, is the managing editor of Image. Her short stories have appeared in Image, The Georgia Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal. She recently received a grant from the Seattle Arts Commission and is at work on a novel.

Merrily Kerr is an art critic based in New York City. She writes regularly about contemporary art for Flash Art, Tema Celeste, and NYArts Magazine.

Caroline Langston’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Arts and Letters, The Oxford American, and The Women’s Review of Books, and her fiction has been anthologized in New Stories from the American South, Pushcart Prize XXI, and Christmas Stories from Mississippi. A development associate at NPR, she lives with her husband and dog in Alexandria, Virginia. She is writing a novel.

Paul Mariani is one of America’s leading poets and literary biographers. His volumes on Robert Lowell and Hart Crane were both New York Times notable books. He is currently at work on a biography of the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. His most recent book of poems is The Great Wheel (Norton). This past year he published a spiritual memoir, Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (Viking) and God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry and the Ineffable (Georgia).

John McAndrew is a poet and parish priest in the Diocese of Orange in California. As part of a 1999 sabbatical, he studied poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, co-founded by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Ann McCutchan’s books include Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus) and The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process (Oxford). She has written lyrics for several musical works, and her essays have appeared in the Florida Review, Cimarron Review, and Boulevard. She is currently a visiting professor of writing and music at the University of Wyoming.

Robert Siegel is the author of In a Pig’s Eye (Florida), The Beasts & the Elders (New England), 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.

Mary L. Tabor’s fiction has appeared in the Mid-American Review, Chelsea, Hayden’s Ferry Review, American Literary Review, and Antietam Review. She received the grand prize at the Santa Fe Writers Project 2000 Literary Awards, and her collection of short stories is a finalist for the 2002 AWP Award in Short Fiction.