Issue 38

Contributors

Bruce Beasley is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Signs and Abominations (Wesleyan). He teaches at Western Washington University.

Dan Bellm lives in San Francisco and teaches with California Poets in the Schools. Two collections of his poetry were published in 1999: One Hand on the Wheel (Roundhouse/Heyday) and Buried Treasure (Cleveland State). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and Ploughshares, and his translations of fiction and poetry from Spanish have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Ben Birnbaum is editor of Boston College Magazine. His work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, Midstream, Nimrod, and Portland Magazine, and has been anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing and Best American Essays.

Deborah Joy Corey’s stories have appeared in many quarterlies, including Ploughshares, Story, New Letters, The Crescent Review, and Image. Her first novel, Losing Eddie (Algonquin), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was voted one of the best 100 novels of the nineties. Her second novel, The Skating Pond (Putnam), was published in January.

Kathleen L. Housley is the author of the biography Emily Hall Tremaine: Collector on the Cusp (New England). A collector of modern art, Tremaine’s aesthetics were shaped by her belief in non-duality as promulgated by Christian Science. Housley’s poetry has appeared frequently in The Christian Century. She is an Affiliated Scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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.

Justyna Kostkowska, a native of Lublin, Poland, received her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She teaches literature and composition at Middle Tennessee State University and has published critical essays on Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson.

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.

Jennifer Moss’ poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Another Chicago Magazine, River Styx, and Poetry Northwest, among others. She received a Seattle Arts Commission Literary Arts Award in 2000, and has received two Washington State Artist Trust grants. She lives in Seattle.

Kathleen Snodgrass is the author of The Fiction of Hortense Calisher (Delaware) and a regular reviewer of short fiction for The Georgia Review. Her translations of contemporary Mexican and Romanian poets have appeared in such journals as The Marlboro Review, Chelsea, Lyric, Mississippi Review, and Bitter Oleander.

Jan Twardowski, born in Warsaw in 1915, published the first of over twenty-five books in 1937. A Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Underground Home Army during World War II, he fought and was wounded in the Warsaw uprising. His numerous honors include the 2000 Polish publishers’ award, Ikarus, for a poetic bestseller. The poems translated here appeared in his 1983 collection, You Who Create the Berries (Wydawnictwo Literackie).