Issue 37

Contributors

Doug Adams is a professor of Christianity and the Arts at the Pacific School of Religion and serves on the faculty of the art and religion doctoral program at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of eight books, including Transcendence with the Human Body in Art: George Segal, Stephen De Staebler, Jasper Johns, and Christo (Crossroad) and Eyes To See Wholeness: Visual Arts Informing Biblical and Theological Studies in Education and Worship through the Church Year (Educational Ministries).

Peter Anderson, the editor and publisher of Pilgrimage, teaches writing part-time at Earlham School of Religion. He also leads retreats at Clear Creek Writing Center in Crestone, Colorado, where he lives with his wife and daughter. “In God’s Wildness” is an excerpt from Walking the Big Empty: Mountains, Prayer, and Presence, a recently completed memoir.

Beth Bosworth’s A Burden of Earth and Other Stories was published in 1995 by Hanging Loose Press. Her novel Tunneling is forthcoming from Crown Publishers. She teaches at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York, and edits The Saint Ann’s Review.

Sheryl Cornett teaches English and creative writing at North Carolina State University. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in various journals including The Mars Hill Review, The North Carolina Literary Review, and The Raleigh News and Observer. In 1999 she was a finalist for the Doris Betts fiction prize. Cornett lives in Chapel Hill with her children and just completed her novel American Mignonne.

Lindsey Crittenden’s short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in Santa Monica Review, Quarterly West, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, Health, Bon Appétit, and other publications. Her book, The View from Below, won the Mid-List Press First Series Award in short fiction. She has completed a novel and is at work on a memoir about prayer. She teaches writing in San Francisco.

David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why (Sierra Club) and The Brothers K (Bantam), the story collection River Teeth (Bantam), and the nonfiction collection My Story as Told by Water (Sierra Club), which was nominated for a 2001 National Book Award and won the Western Sates Book Award. He lives with his family on a Montana trout stream.

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough has translated two Polish novels into English: Annihilation by Piotr Szewc (Dalkey Archive) and Rat by Andrzej Zaniewski (Arcade). Her poetry translations have appeared in the Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Boulevard, and other journals.

Lance Larsen’s poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, and New Republic, among others, as well as in American Poetry: Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), an anthology of poets under forty. His collection, Erasable Walls, is from New Issues Press. He has been a fellow at Sewanee.

Anna Leahy is the author of Hagioscope (Sow’s Ear). Her poetry has appeared in Cimarron Review, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, and other venues. She served as editor of The Mochila Review for two years and now teaches at North Central College in Illinois.

Debra Murphy is the publisher of bardolatry.com, a website devoted to Shakespeare on film. She has written articles on family life for the U.S. and U.K. Catholic press, and her novel, The Mystery of Things, was a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association genre fiction contest. She lives in Oregon with her husband and six children.

Amy Newman is the author of Order, or Disorder (Cleveland State) and Camera Lyrica (Alice James Books). Her poems have recently appeared in The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, The Journal, and Seneca Review. In 2002 she received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Illinois Arts Council. She teaches writing and literature at Northern Illinois University.

Lia Purpura is the author of Increase (Georgia), winner of an AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction, and Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State), winner of the OSU/The Journal Award. She is writer-in-residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Alan Rifkin is a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine and a former contributing editor to Details, and has received a Sigma Delta Chi award for Sports Writing. His collection of fiction, Signal Hill, will be published this fall by City Lights.

Wayne L. Roosa is a professor of art history at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. His B.F.A. and B.A. were earned at the University of Colorado at Boulder; his M.A. and Ph.D. at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He would like to thank Thomas Toperzer for introducing Nicolas Dings’s work to him.

Maurya Simon’s books include The Enchanted Room and Days of Awe (Copper Canyon), Speaking in Tongues (Gibbs Smith), and The Golden Labyrinth (Missouri). Her fifth volume, A Brief History of Punctuation, was published in 2002 by Sutton Hoo Press. Her sixth volume, Weavers, a collaboration with Los Angeles artist Baila Goldenthal, is forthcoming from Blackbird Press. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and others. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Janusz Szuber has published twelve collections of poems, most recently Las w Lustrach, or Forest in the Mirrors (Wydawnictwo Yes). His poetry, which Czeslaw Milosz calls “superb,” has been translated into French, Spanish, Slovak, German, Italian, and Ukrainian. He lives in Sanok, Poland.

Ray Waddle, religion editor at The Tennessean in Nashville from 1984 to 2001, is a writer and lecturer in Nashville. His book of meditations on the Psalms will be published in the spring of 2004 by Upper Room Books.