Issue 48

Contributors

Ryan Blacketter’s fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and Other Voices. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the recipient of a Haystack Writing Award, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, and an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council grant. He has completed a story collection manuscript, “Horses All over Hell,” and is at work on a novel. He lives with his wife in Boise, Idaho.

John B. Breslin, S.J., is the editor of The Substance of Things Hoped For: Short Fiction by Modern Catholic Authors (Doubleday). He is currently teaching as the Wade Professor in the English department at Marquette University.

Richard Chess’s books Tekiah and Chair in the Desert are published by the University of Tampa Press. His poem “Kaddish” was included in Best American Spiritual Writing 2005, and he has been anthologized in Telling and Remembering: A Century of American Jewish Poetry (Beacon). He is the director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at Holy Cross College. He has published four poetry collections; a fifth, Common Life, will appear in 2006 from CavanKerry Press. He has received two grants in poetry from the NEA and two from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Nation, Image, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review, New Yorker, and many other magazines.

Alfred Corn’s most recent volume of poems, Contradictions, appeared from Copper Canyon Press in 2002. He held the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts, for 2004-2005, and will teach at the Poetry School in London, England, later in the year.

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, Pembroke Magazine, and the Raleigh News and Observer. In 1999 she was a finalist for the Doris Betts fiction prize. She lives in Chapel Hill with her children.

Theodore Deppe is the author of four collections of poems, including The Wanderer King (Alice James) and Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Books). He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program and is currently writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Scott Driscoll has won Society of Professional Journalists awards for his feature stories and was awarded the Milliman Award for Fiction by the University of Washington, where he completed an MFA. His short stories and essays have appeared in Crosscurrents, Cimarron Review, and the Seattle Review, and in anthologies such as Context Books’ Ex-Files: New Stories About Old Flames. Driscoll freelances and teaches literary fiction for the University of Washington Extension.

Allison Funk is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow), and the recipient of the Samuel French Morse Prize, Poetry’s George Kent Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry, and a fellowship from the NEA. She is a professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she edits the journal Sou’wester.

Hadley Hury’s short fiction has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Colorado North Review, and Grapevine. His suspense novel, The Edge of the Gulf, was published in 2003 by Poisoned Pen Press. Formerly a nonprofit executive as well as a film and theater critic for The Memphis Flyer, he now chairs the department of English at Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. He and his wife live in Memphis and on Orcas Island in Washington State.

Anya Krugovoy has recently published poetry in Crab Orchard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Cream City Review, and the Louisville Review. Her book, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, was published by Cambridge University Press. She teaches in the English department at Mercer University and lives in Macon, Georgia, with her husband and son. She has recently celebrated her first anniversary as a breast cancer survivor.

Amy Newman is the author of three books of poetry, fall (Wesleyan), Camera Lyrica (Alice James), and Order, or Disorder (Cleveland State). She teaches at Northern Illinois University. Her essay on exile in the work of poet Agha Shahid Ali is forthcoming in the Hollins Critic.

Virginia Stem Owens’s memoir of her grandfather’s last years won the Texas Institute of Letters prize for best nonfiction book in 1990. Living Next Door to the Death House (Eerdmans), written with her husband, David, takes readers inside the prison culture that pervades her hometown of Huntsville, Texas. She is on the editorial board of Books & Culture and served for seven years as director of the Milton Center, an institute dedicated to fostering excellence in writing by Christians.

Charles Pickstone is an Anglican priest, vicar of Saint Laurence, Catford, in southeast London, and assistant editor of Art and Christianity (www.acetrust.org). He is also a freelance art critic who has written for a number of journals including Modern Painters, Apollo, Theology, and the TLS, and a regular speaker on art and spirituality in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Ellen Morris Prewitt’s story is from her manuscript “The Land behind Pickwick Lake,” a collection of interlocking short stories set in the southern river communities around Pickwick Lake. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Texas Review, River City, Barrelhouse Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Eureka Literary Magazine, Fourth Genre, Brevity.com, and elsewhere. In addition to writing, she makes religious objects from broken things.

Pattiann Rogers has published twelve books, most recently a revised and expanded editon of Firekeeper: Selected Poems (Milkweed) and Generations (Penguin). She has received two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two Lannan poetry fellowships. She is the mother of two sons, has three grandsons, and lives with her husband, a retired geophysicist, in Colorado.

Scott Russell Sanders has received a Lannan Literary Award, among other prizes. His many books of essays include Staying Put, The Force of Spirit, Secrets of the Universe, Hunting for Hope (all from Beacon), and Writing from the Center (Indiana). He lives in Bloomington and teaches at the creative writing program at Indiana University.

Martha Serpas’s poetry collections include Côte Blanche (New Issues) and The Dirty Side of the Storm, forthcoming in September of 2006 from Norton. Her poems have appeared recently in the New Yorker, Metre, and Passages North. A native of southern Louisiana, she teaches writing and religion and literature at the University of Tampa.