Issue 43

Contributors

Ron Austin is a veteran screenwriter and producer, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Image.

K. Alexander Cooper was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and grew up in various countries in Asia and Africa. After nearly fifteen years working with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, he went to Ohio State for his MFA. He presently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and three daughters.

Sheryl Cornett teaches English and creative writing at North Carolina State University. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in various journals including Mars Hill Review, 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 has just completed a novel, “American Mignonne.”

Todd Davis teaches at Penn State Altoona. His poems have appeared in North American Review, River Styx, Green Mountains Review, Poetry East, Many Mountains Moving, and many other journals, as well as in the anthology A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (Iowa). His first book of poems, Ripe, was published by Bottom Dog Press in 2002.

Elizabeth Dewberry has authored three novels, Sacrament of Lies (Blue Hen), Break the Heart of Me, and Many Things Have Happened Since He Died...and Here Are the Highlights (both from Doubleday). Her plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles, and have premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Tess Gallagher’s most recent book is Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (Michigan). She has recently finished a book of oral stories with painter and storyteller Josie Gray of Sligo, Ireland, some of which appeared in DoubleTake, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Artful Dodge, and the Bellingham Review. Gallagher is at work on a new collection of poems, currently titled “Dear Ghosts.”

Paul Headrick teaches English and creative writing at Langara College in Vancouver. “The Franklin Chair” is part of a collection in progress of stories related to the theme of music. Other stories from this collection have been published in the Vincent Brothers Review and the Malahat Review.

Bruce Herman is chair of visual arts at Gordon College. His paintings are housed in the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Herman initiated a touring group exhibition, A Broken Beauty, which debuts next May at the Palazzo dei Sette in Orvieto, Italy, and will visit the J.D. Carrier Gallery in Toronto during April and May of 2006. For more information, visit www.brucehermanonline.com.

Jane Hoogestraat has published essays on such poets as Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, and Susan Howe. Her poetry has appeared in journals including DoubleTake, Mars Hill Review, Poetry, and Southern Review. She is currently a professor of English at Southwest Missouri State.

Lance Larsen’s second collection of poems, In All Their Animal Brilliance, will be published this fall by University of Tampa Press. His poems have appeared recently in New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Southern Review, Grand Street, Agni, Orion, and Many Mountains Moving. In 2003 he won the Writers at Work Prize for nonfiction, and in 2004, a Pushcart Prize for poetry.

Bret Lott’s most recent book is the novel A Song I Knew by Heart (Random House); his tenth book, Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer’s Life (Ballantine), will be out in January. He is editor of the Southern Review and a professor of English at Louisiana State University.

David Morgan is Duesenberg Professor of Christianity and the Arts at Valparaiso University. He is currently a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, at work on a book on the history of print and visual culture in the global career of Protestantism.

Christine Perrin has taught at Johns Hopkins University and now teaches at Messiah College. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, New England Review, Agni, Seneca Review, and others. She has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council and the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award with his first book, Hands of the Saddlemaker (Yale). His next collection of poetry is near completion and seeking a publisher. Recent work has appeared in New England Review, DoubleTake, Southern Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He recently traveled to Greece on a Lilly fellowship to write about the Athens Olympics.

Floyd Skloot’s memoir In the Shadow of Memory (Nebraska) received the PEN Center USA Literary Award and was a finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. His fourth collection of poems, The End of Dreams, will be published by Lousiana State University Press. Recent work appears in the Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best Science Writing 2003, and the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Adam J. Sorkin has published more than twenty books of translation from the Romanian, including The Bridge by Marin Sorescu (Bloodaxe) and The Grand Prize (forthcoming from Northwestern), a volume of Daniela Crasnaru’s short stories. He has received grants from the Fulbright Program, IREX, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, the Arts Council of England, the Academy of American Poets, and the Soros Foundation.

Liliana Ursu has published eight books of poetry in Romanian, most recently Lift Up Your Hearts (Bucharest). Her first book in English, The Sky Behind the Forest (Bloodaxe), translated by Sorkin, Gallagher, and herself, became a British Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and was short-listed for Oxford’s Weidenfeld Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in APR, Poetry International, Kenyon Review, Notre Dame Review, and others.

Lucy Warner’s short stories have appeared in the Atlantic and Mademoiselle, as well as in her collection Mirrors (Knopf). She is an adult education teacher in New York City and for decades did no fiction writing, but did write articles on teaching. She has recently returned to fiction and is at work on a novel.

Roger Williams lives in Hurricane, West Virginia. His work has appeared in a number of magazines, including Image.