Issue 39

Contributors

Catharine Savage Brosman’s publications include The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays as well as five poetry collections. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Sewanee Review, Southern Review, The American Scholar, and others. Her most recent works are the prose volume Finding Higher Ground: A Life of Travels (Nevada) and a new collection of verse, The Muscled Truce (Louisiana State), forthcoming this winter.

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has published four books of poetry: Life-List (Ohio State), What Binds Us to This World (Copper Beech), Heavy Grace (Alice James), and Against Consolation (Cavan Kerry). His poetry has been published in the Paris Review, The Georgia Review, DoubleTake, Sewanee Review, and Orion.

Oliver de la Paz is the author of Names above Houses, a collection of prose poems published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Rosemary Deen taught literature and writing at Queens College CUNY and is poetry editor of Commonweal. She has co-authored two books on the teaching of writing, including Beat Not the Poor Desk (Boynton/Cook). She has a large garden and a book of essays, Naming the Light (Illinois). With Blake scholar Leonard Deen she has co-authored five children.

Andrew Furman, the author of Israel through the Jewish American Imagination (SUNY) and Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma (Syracuse), is associate professor and chair of English at Florida Atlantic University. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, MELUS, Contemporary Literature, ISLE, The Forward, Tikkun, and The Miami Herald, among others. He is currently writing a novel, set in south Florida.

Lise Goett is the author of Waiting for the Paraclete (Beacon), winner of the Barnard New Women’s Poetry Prize. Her other awards include the Capricorn Poetry Award from the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York, The Paris Review Discovery Award, a Milton Center fellowship, and a Halls Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, and others.

Paula Huston is the author of Daughters of Song (Random House) and the co-editor of Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments (Dutton). Her short fiction has appeared in journals including Story, American Short Fiction, and Missouri Review, and her awards include an NEA fellowship. Her book The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life is forthcoming from Loyola Press this November, and she is now at work on a book about her solo trip around the world.

Paul Mariani is one of America’s leading poets and literary biographers. His volumes on William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell and Hart Crane were all New York Times notable books. 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).

Rod Pattenden directs the Institute for Theology and the Arts in Sydney, Australia. He works in the area of creativity, the arts, and spiritual formation, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney. He is campus minister at the Macquarie University for the Uniting Church.

Peggy Payne’s novel Sister India was a New York Times Notable Book of 2001. In addition to writing fiction, she is co-author, with Allan Luks, of The Healing Power of Doing Good. Her articles, essays, and reviews have been published in magazines as diverse as Family Circle, Ms. Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Cosmopolitan, and The Mother Earth News, and in many American newspapers.

James Romaine is an art historian and a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center of CUNY, where he is writing a dissertation on Anselm Kiefer. His book Objects of Grace: Conversations on Creativity and Faith is a collection of interviews with artists, including Sandra Bowden, Edward Knippers, Mary McCleary, Joel Sheesley, and Makoto Fujimura. The recent anthology It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God includes one of his essays. Both are at www.SquareHaloBooks.com.

Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Young Poets Award for his first book of poems, Hands of the Saddlemaker (Yale). He currently teaches poetry at the University of South Florida and has just completed his second poetry manuscript. His awards include an NEA fellowship.

Lisa Russ Spaar directs the creative writing program at the University of Virginia, where she teaches in the department of English. Her most recent books are Glass Town: Poems (Red Hen) and Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems (Columbia). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A new collection, Blue Venus, will appear from Persea Books in 2004.

Jennifer Spiegel has an M.A. in politics from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State, and is an English professor at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. Her work has appeared in three anthologies, as well as the journals Hayden’s Ferry Review, You Are Here, and Image, and is forthcoming in The Seattle Review. Her novel manuscript is titled “Love Slave.”

Sufjan Stevens, a Michigan native living in New York City, designs children’s books, teaches knitting to the blind, and occasionally finds freelance work knitting scarves for Martha Stewart Living. He also teaches at the New School and frequently records and performs music. His most recent album, a collection of songs for Michigan, inaugurates his fifty states project, in which he will record an album for each state.

G.C. Waldrep’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Seneca Review, and other journals. His manuscript Goldbeater’s Skin won the Colorado Prize for Poetry (judged by Donald Revell) and will appear this December. He is also the author of Southern Workers and the Search for Community, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Formerly a member of the New Order Amish community at Yanceyville, he now divides his time between North Carolina and Iowa.

Paul J. Willis is a professor of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of two chapbooks of poems, Poison Oak (Mille Grazie) and The Deep and Secret Color of Ice (Small Poetry), the latter selected by Jane Hirshfield. His essays have appeared in Books & Culture, River Teeth, and Best Spiritual Writing 1999.

David Yezzi’s book of poems, The Hidden Model, is forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books this fall. His chapbook, Sad Is Eros, recently appeared from Aralia Press. He is associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review and director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the Ninety-second Street Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association in New York City.