Issue 44

Contributors

Kim Alexander is a painter and writer. For the past eight years, along with Mike Capps, she has co-chaired the Trinity Arts Conference, held at the University of Dallas each June.

John B. Breslin, S.J., is the editor of The Substance of Things Hoped For: Short Fiction by Modern Catholic Authors (Doubleday). He teaches literature at Fordham University in New York City.

Fleda Brown is professor of English at the University of Delaware and poet laureate of Delaware. Her fifth collection of poems, The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives, was published in 2004 by Carnegie Mellon. Her essays have appeared in Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Laurel Review, and other journals, and she recently received the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Award from The Journal. Her poetry is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, and Georgia Review, among others.

Scott Cairns has published five poetry collections, most recently Philokalia: New and Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in Spiritus, Sojourners, Paris Review, and Poetry, and have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Spiritual Writing, and Upholding Mystery. He is working on a spiritual memoir called “Slow Pilgrim.”

Tenaya Darlington has worked as an x-ray librarian, a knife-seller, a food critic, and a visiting writer, and is currently a journalist in Madison, Wisconsin. Her first book, Madame Deluxe (Coffee House), a collection of poetry inspired by drag queens, won the National Poetry Series and the GLCA New Writer’s Award. Her most recent book is the novel Maybe Baby (Back Bay).

Brad Davis directs the Writers Studio and teaches creative writing at Pomfret School, a secondary boarding school in northeastern Connecticut. His first book of poems, Opening King David, will be published by Antrim House in 2005. Recent journal credits include Tar River and Main Street Rag.

Gregory Dunne is the author of Fistful of Lotus, a book of poetry handmade by Canadian print artist Elizabeth Forrest. His poetry, essays, translations, and interviews have appeared widely in many magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry East, Willow Springs, and Kyoto Journal. He lives in Japan and teaches at the International University of Japan.

Brendan Galvin is the author of thirteen collections of poems, including The Strength of a Named Thing, Sky and Island Light, and Place Keepers (all from Louisiana State), and the narrative poem Hotel Malabar (Iowa), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998. His awards include Guggenheim and NEA fellowships.

Chris Gavaler’s suspense novel Pretend I’m Not Here was published by HarperCollins in 2002, and he has new fiction forthcoming in Shenandoah and Hayden’s Ferry Review. His scholarly work has appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Sagetrieb, and Paideuma. He is currently earning an MFA at the University of Virginia.

Ingrid Hill is the author of the short fiction collection Dixie Church Interstate Blues (Viking Penguin) and Ursula, Under, a novel (Algonquin). The latter won the Great Lakes Book Award for 2004. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Review, North American Review, Story, Shenandoah, and the anthology New Stories from the South.

T.R. Hummer’s most recent books of poems are Useless Virtues (Louisiana State) and Bluegrass Wasteland: Selected Poems 1981-2001 (Arc). The poems printed here will appear in 2005 in a new collection, The Infinity Sessions (Louisiana State). He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he edits the Georgia Review.

Rudy Nelson, associate professor of English (emeritus), University of Albany, New York, is the author of The Making and Unmaking of an Evangelical Mind: The Case of Edward Carnell (Cambridge).

Shirley Nelson is the author of the novel The Last Year of the War (Harper and Row) and a narrative history of a New England cult, Fair Clear and Terrible: The Story of Shiloh, Maine (British American). She and her husband Rudy live in Amherst, Massachusetts, and continue to collaborate as writers.

Tom Noyes’s first book, Behold Faith and Other Stories, came out with Dufour Editions in 2003. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College.

Nicholas O’Connell teaches for www.thewritersworkshop.net and the University of Washington. He is the author of On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature (Washington) and contributes to Gourmet, Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, and many other publications.

Eric Pankey, whose most recent book is Oracle Figures (Ausable), is the author of six collections of poems. A book-length sequence of poems, Reliquaries, is forthcoming from Ausable in spring 2005. He teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.

J.A.C. Redford’s compositions include symphonies, choral music, ballet, art songs, and chamber music, and have been performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Utah Symphony, the American Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and London’s Royal Albert Hall. More information about Redford’s music, including a discography, is available at www.jacredford.com.

Franz Wright received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2004 for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Knopf). His next collection is called Prescience. He occasionally teaches, and works as a volunteer facilitator at the Center for Grieving Children in Arlington, Massachusetts.