Issue 49

Contributors

Deirdre Callanan’s poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, and Green Mountains Review, among others. She has received awards from Prime Time magazine and the Boston Writing Project, as well as a Christa McAuliffe Fellowship. She writes from her Cape Cod home and for ten years has been a member of Bass River Revisionists, a writing group whose suggestions and support mean a great deal to her.

David Citino (1947-2005) authored thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently The News and Other Poems (Notre Dame) and the forthcoming A History of Hands (Ohio State), as well as a collection of prose, Paperwork (Kent State). He coauthored the 2006 edition of The Bible as Literature: An Introduction (Oxford) and received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the NEA, the Career Medal of the Ohioana Library Association, and the Bjornson Award for distinguished service to the humanities. For thirty-one years, Citino taught at Ohio State University, where he was named Poet Laureate.

Robert Clark is the author of three books of nonfiction and four novels, most recently the novel Lives of the Artists (HarperCollins Canada). He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow working on a collection of essays on art and belief.

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has published five books of poetry: Life-List (Ohio State), What Binds Us to This World (Copper Beech), Heavy Grace (Alice James), Against Consolation, and Common Life (both from CavanKerry). His poetry has been published in the Paris Review, Georgia Review, DoubleTake, Sewanee Review, and Orion. He recently received his second NEA fellowship in poetry.

Debra Dean worked as an actor in New York for nearly a decade before becoming a writer and teacher. Her first novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, is out this spring from William Morrow/HarperCollins and is being translated into nine languages. A short story collection is slated to follow. She lives in Seattle with her husband, poet Clifford Paul Fetters.

Madeline DeFrees’s eighth poetry collection, Spectral Waves, will be published by Copper Canyon Press this June. Blue Dusk (also from Copper Canyon), a volume of new and selected poems, won the Lenore Marshall Prize in 2002.

William Dyrness is a professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His latest book is Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (Cambridge). He is currently researching the use of visual imagery in worship and has served on the national board of Christians in the Visual Arts. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA.

Eamon Grennan’s most recent poetry collections are Relations: New & Selected Poems, Still Life with Waterfall, which won the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and The Quick of It (all from Graywolf). He has also published a collection of translations, Leopardi: Selected Poems (Princeton), and a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Creighton). He teaches at Vassar College.

Jeanine Hathaway is the author of the autobiographical novel Motherhouse (Hyperion) and a poetry collection, The Self as Constellation (North Texas), winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Her poetry appears in the Georgia Review, America, River Styx, DoubleTake, and others. She has taught writing and literature at Wichita State University since 1974.

Sydney Lea is the founder and former editor of the New England Review. He has published a novel, A Place in Mind (Scribner), a collection of naturalist essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home (Lyons), and eight collections of poetry, including Pursuit of a Wound (Illinois), a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, and Ghost Pain (Sarabande). His other awards include Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright fellowships.

Robert Royal is president of the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, DC. His essays appear in Crisis, First Things, Communio, the Washington Post, National Review, Wall Street Journal, and American Spectator. His most recent book is The Pope’s Army: Five Hundred Years of the Papal Swiss Guard (Crossroad).

Luci Shaw’s books include eight volumes of poetry, including The Green Earth and Water Lines (Eerdmans), and the nonfiction book The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarstiy). She is writer-in-residence at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Her poetry has appeared in Weavings, Image, Books & Culture, Christian Century, Rock & Sling, Radix, Crux, Stonework, Nimble Spirit, and others.