Issue 46

Contributors

Dick Allen’s most recent book is The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande), winner of the Sheila Motton Book Prize. It follows his Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (also from Sarabande). His poems have recently appeared in The Nation, Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, and Inkwell, among others. His awards include a 2005 Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the NEA and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He lives in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Julianna Baggott is the author of the novels Girl Talk (Washington Square), The Miss America Family (Atria), and The Madam (Atria), a book of poems, This Country of Mothers (Southern Illinois), and, under the penname N.E. Bode, a novel series for younger readers, The Anybodies (HarperCollins). Her work has been published in Best American Poetry, Triquarterly, and Southern Review and read on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

Judith Boudreaux has attended the Bennington and Glen summer workshops and is a former member of the Milton Center writers group. She has her MA in English and MFA from Wichita State University and is currently completing a fi rst book of poetry and a collection of short fi ction. She also has an MA in counseling from Friends University. She and her physician husband serve as volunteer counselors at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita.

Deborah Bowen teaches at Redeemer University College, a small Christian liberal arts college in southwestern Ontario. She is often made aware, especially in teaching postcolonial literature, of the ambiguous privilege of having grown up in England and received a traditional British education.

Catharine Savage Brosman is professor emerita of French at Tulane and author or editor of eighteen volumes on modern French literature. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Places in Mind, The Muscled Truce, and Range of Light (forthcoming), all from Louisiana State University Press. She is also the author of two collections of nonfiction, The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays (Louisiana State) and Finding Higher Ground: A Life of Travels (Nevada).

Warren Farha is the founder, owner, clerk, and janitor of Eighth Day Books, a bookstore in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in “books of timeless interest.” To order the Eighth Day Books catalog or browse the store on-line, visit www.eighthdaybooks.com; or call the store at 1-800-841-2541.

Stephen Frech has published two volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent (Kent State) and If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness (White Pine). He is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, publisher of limited edition, letterpress poetry broadsides. He is also assistant professor of English at Millikin University, where he was recently named Hardy Distinguished Professor of English.

Gordon Fuglie is the director of the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He was the guest curator of the recent retrospective exhibition John Frame: Enigma Variations at the Long Beach Museum of Art and author of its catalog (see his profile of Frame in Image issue 41). He may be contacted at gfuglie@lmu.edu.

M.A. Greenstein is a Los Angeles-based art theorist whose writing focuses especially on the art of the Asia-Pacific region. She has published numerous articles in journals on-line and off, and is currently on the graduate faculty of the Art Center College of Design.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is the author of Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Sasquatch), a winner of the Washington State Book Award. Her writing and reviews have appeared in a number of journals, including Conservation Biology and Wild Earth. Her second book, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2006.

Jean Janzen has published six collections of poems, most recently Piano in the Vineyard (Good Books). She has taught at Fresno Pacific and Eastern Mennonite Universities, and is a recipient of an NEA award and an Associated Church award. A book of essays, Elements of Faithful Writing, was recently published by Pandora Press.

Paul Mariani is one of America’s leading literary biographers and poets. His books include the poetry collections Salvage Operations and The Great Wheel (both from Norton), as well as biographies of William Carlos Williams (nominated for a National Book Award), John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Hart Crane. A new book of poetry, Deaths and Transfigurations: Poems, will be out from Paraclete Press in June, designed and with engravings by Barry Moser.

David McGlynn is a PhD student in literature and writing at the University of Utah, where he is also managing editor of Western Humanities Review. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Black Warrior Review, Northwest Review, Mars Hill Review, and other publications. His story “The Space between Our Bodies” appeared in Image in 2001.

Virgil Nemoianu is William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is vice president of the International Comparative Literature Association and an executive council member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

Bobby C. Rogers is professor of English at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. His poetry has appeared in Southern Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and many other magazines. New work is forthcoming in the Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review, and River City. He lives in Memphis with his wife, son, and daughter.

Terri Witek’s publications include Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self (Missouri), Foods and Crows (Orchises), and Carnal World (Story Line). She teaches English at Stetson University.

Geoff Wyss, originally from Peoria, Illinois, has taught Latin and English at a New Orleans high school for the last ten years. He has a degree in creative writing from Kansas State and has published fiction in Mid-American Review, Wisconsin Review, Barbaric Yawp, Chariton Review, and Seattle Review.