Issue 42

Contributors

Jackie Bartley's poems have appeared in a number of journals including Crab Orchard Review, Phoebe, and Spoon River Review. Her first full-length collection, Bloodroot, was recently published by Mellen Poetry Press.

Elinor Benedict's awards include the May Swenson Poetry Award-for her collection All that Divides Us (Utah State)-the Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Newman University Milton Center, and the Andre Dubus Short Story Award from Words & Images magazine. A founding editor of Passages North, she is completing a new poetry collection called "News from the Wilderness."

John B. Breslin, S.J., is the editor of the Catholic short-story anthology, The Substance of Things Hoped For (Doubleday). He teaches at Fordham University in New York City.

Richard Chess has published two books of poetry, Tekiah (Georgia) and Chair in the Desert (Tampa). His poems have also appeared in Telling and Remembering: A Century of American- Jewish Poetry (Beacon), The Sacred Place (Utah), and other anthologies.

Robert Clark is the author of three books of nonfiction and four novels, most recently the novel Lives of the Artists, forthcoming in 2005. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow working on a collection of essays on art and belief.

Ann Copeland is the author of six collections of short fiction, including Earthen Vessels (Viking), Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore, and Season of Apples (both from Goose Lane). Her awards for fiction include two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill prize, and several Canada Council Awards. She has held the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and is currently at work on a book of essays entitled "Musicking Moments."

Rachel Dacus's writing has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Many Mountains Moving, Rattapallax, Terrain, and many other journals and anthologies. Her poetry collection is Earth Lessons (Bellowing Ark), and a CD of her poetry and music, A God You Can Dance, was released in 2002 by CanDance Productions. She serves on the staff of the on-line Alsop Review.

Harold Fickett, co-founder of Image and former director of the Milton Center, is the author of many books, including The Holy Fool (Harold Shaw), The Living Christ (Doubleday), and a forthcoming biography of Albert Schweitzer, to be published by Doubleday in 2005.

David Brendan Hopes is professor of literature and language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, founder and editor of Urthona Press, and founder and director of the Black Swan Theatre Company. He is the author of Blood Rose (Urthona), A Sense of the Morning (Milkweed), and The Glacier's Daughters (Massachusetts), winner of both the Juniper and Saxifrage Prizes. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Audubon, Christopher Street, and The Sun.

Mark Jarman's latest collection of poetry is To the Green Man (Sarabande). He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

John Kimmey is the former head of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of South Carolina. The stories have appeared in North American Review, Confrontation, Thought, and Pangolin Papers. He has also published critical essays on American and Russian fiction and seventeenth-century English poetry, a six-volume critical anthology of world literature, and a novel, Mussolini's Gold (Tower).

Francesca Riviere writes on the arts and culture. She lives in Los Angeles with a gray cat named Poet.

David Williams is the author of Traveling Mercies (Alice James). His work has appeared in seven anthologies and in many journals, most recently including Prairie Schooner, Luna, and Terra Incognita.

Joy Williams's latest novel, The Quick and the Dead (Knopf), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Her essays have been collected in Ill Nature (Lyons) which was a finalist for the National Book Circle Award. She has received the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her story "Ack" will appear in a collection, Honored Guest, to be published by Knopf in the fall of 2004.