Issue 4

Contributors

Keith Bower is assembling a K-12 chastity education program for the Foundation for the Family in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has played the saxophone professionally since the late 1970s. He lives in western Cincinnati with his wife and four children. He and his wife publish The St. Joseph Messenger, a biweekly reader for Catholic children.

Kelly Cherry is professor of English at the University of Wisoncin, Madison. She is the author of five novels, including My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers, and autobiographical narrative, The Exiled Heart, and four books of poetry, including Natural Theology and God's Loud Hand. She has received the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize for the Fellowship of Southern Writers and other honors.

Harold Fickett has just completed First Light, the first in a series of historical novels to be published by Bethany House. He is Executive Director of The Milton Center at Kansas Newman College, a center for excellence in imaginative writing by Christians. His previous books include a novel, Holy Fool, and a critical biography, Flannery O'Connor: Images of Grace. He serves as Executive Editor of Image.

William Griffin is the editorial director of McCracken Press/Cadell & Davies, a new book publishing company. He has also worked as an editor of religious books for Macmillan and as religion editor for Publishers Weekly. He is the author of Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life, The Fleetwood Correspondence, and other books.

Jascha Kessler is poet, playwright, translator, and short story writer. Since 1961, he has been a Professor of English and Modern Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include An Egyptian Bondage and Other Stories, Siren Songs, and In Memory of the Future (poems). He has received three Fulbright Awards and has been a Rockefeller Fellow. He also serves as Arts Commissioner for th eCity of Santa Monica, California.

Denise Levertov is one of America's preeminent poets. The author of more than twenty books, her most recent publications include Evening Train, a collection of poems, and New and Selected Essays.

Paul Mariani is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books of poetry include Crossing Cocytus, Prime Mover, and Salvage Operations. He has written biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, and has just completeed a biography of Robert Lowell. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Image.

Henri Nouwen is pastor of the L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto, Canada. One of the world's leading spiritual writers, he is the author of many books, including The Genesee Diary, Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Living with Icons, The Wounded Healer, and Life of the Beloved.

Arthur Quinn is a professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written in a wide variety of genres. He is the co-author, along with Isaac Kidawada, of a study of the Pentateuch entitled Before Abraham Was. Among his other books are Figures of Speech and A Poet's Work, on the poetry of Czelaw Milosz. A New World, an epic narrative of colonial America, will be published in the splring of 1994.

Luci Shaw, who conducted the interview with Madeleine L'Engle in this issue, is a poet. Her most recent collection is Polishing the Petoskey Stone: New and Selected Poems. She has also written a book about bereavement, God in the Dark, and Life Paths: Personal and Spiritual Growth Through Journal Writing.

Jay Tolson is the editor of The Wilson Quarterly. His biography of Walker Percy, Pilgrim in the Ruins, was recently published to critical acclaim.

Dr. E. John Walford is Associate Professor of Art History and Art Department Chair, Wheaton College, Illinois. Born in England, he was educated at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and received the Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was the Wolfson College Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art, 1976-80. He is author of Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (Yale University Press, 1991). He is currently writing a college textbook on Great Themes in Art .