Issue 45

Contributors

Beth Bachmann’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Southern Review, American Poetry Journal, and Antioch Review. She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

Doris Betts retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after thirty-three years of teaching fiction writing, has published nine novels and story collections, and now lives and writes on a horse farm with her husband Lowry near Pittsboro.

Lawrence Dorr is the nom de plume of a Hungarian-born American. His story collection A Slight Momentary Affliction (Louisiana State) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and his collection The Bearer of Divine Revelation (Eerdmans) was the Christianity Today Book Award winner in fiction for 2004. He teaches creative writing at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, and lives at Sol Terra horse farm and family compound.

Jason Gray is the author of Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo, winner of the 2003 National Chapbook Prize from Dream Horse Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, and Sewanee Theological Review. He has been awarded a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

A.G. Harmon is the author of A House All Stilled (Tennessee), winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, and “Stagger and Fall,” a novel manuscript that was runner-up for the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Award in 2004. He is also the author of Eternal Bonds, True Contracts: Law and Nature in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays (SUNY). He teaches at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Feeding the Fire(Sarabande), and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Southern Review, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere.

Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer. Her most recent books are The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir (Norton) and Sightings: The Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale (National Geographic). Her honors include NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, a Lannan Foundation award, and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

Kathleen L. Housley’s latest biography, Tranquil Power: The Art and Life of Perle Fine, will be published by Midmarch Arts in 2005. Fine was an abstract expressionist whose paintings convey an austere metaphysical quality. Housley holds the honorary position of affiliated scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Richard Jones is the author of several books of poetry, including Country of Air, At Last We Enter Paradise, and A Perfect Time (all from Copper Canyon). His most recent collection, The Blessing, won the Society for Midland Authors Award for poetry. A new book, Apropos of Nothing, will be published in 2006.

Moira Linehan lives in Winchester, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry, among others. New work has recently appeared in New Orleans Review, Orion, Poetry East, and Prairie Schooner. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Thomas Lynch is an essayist, poet, and funeral director. His books include The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, Still Life in Milford, and the forthcoming Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans, from which “The Same but Different” is excerpted (all four books are from Norton). He lives in Milford, Michigan.

D.S. Martin is a Canadian poet whose work has appeared, or will soon appear, in Arc, Canadian Literature, Christianity & Literature, The Cresset, First Things, Mars Hill Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and Rock & Sling, among others.

Albert Pedulla is an artist who lives in the New York area with his wife and three children. He has received artist’s grants from the Texas Arts Commission and New Jersey Council on the Arts and was selected to participate in the Triangle Arts Foundation’s international artist residency program. He is currently working on a collaborative architectural installation to be permanently installed at the Triangle Arts Foundation headquarters in New York City. He also serves on the board of Christians in the Visual Arts.

James Romaine teaches art history at the New York Center for Arts and Media Studies. His collection of interviews on contemporary art, Objects of Grace, was published by Square Halo Books.

A.H. Wald is a writer whose fiction has appeared in the North American Review and South Dakota Review.

Jeanne Murray Walker’s scripts have been produced in theaters in Boston, Washington, across the Midwest, and in London. Her awards include two William and Arlene Lewis Playwriting Prizes, the CITA Playwriting Prize, and new play prizes from the Charlotte Repertory Theatre and the Minneapolis Playwrights Center. Her sixth book of poetry is A Deed to the Light (Illinois). She is currently working on a theater commission and a new volume of poetry.

Lauren F. Winner is the author of Girl Meets God: A Memoir (Algonquin), and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity (Brazos).