Issue 6

Contributors

Michael Biehl 's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Interim , the Owen Wister Review, Creeping Bent , Great River Review and the Graham House Review .

Alan Davis is the author of Rumors from the Lost World , a collection of stories published in 1993, and the editor of American Fiction , an annual anthology of short stories. He directs the creative writing program at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota. His story in this issue is part of his unpublished collection, The Book of Letting Go.

Louise Erdrich is one of America's leading writers, who novels have earned both critical acclaim and best-seller status. Her Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1984. She is also the author of The Beet Queen , Tracks , The Crown of Columbus (written in collaboration with her husband Michael Dorris), and two books of poetry: Jacklight and Baptism of Desire .

Ann T. Foster is associate professor of humanities at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She has completed a manuscript entitled “Art as Sacred Space: Lippold, De Staebler, Nevelson, Rothko, and Tracy.” The Lippold analysis has been published in a resent issue of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal . She has published in the journal Faith and Form , and is a board member of the Society of Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.

Samuel Hazo is a poet, novelist, literary critic, literary translator, and professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is founder and director of the International Poetry Forum, which sponsors a prestigious series of poetry readings. His many books of poetry include Once for the Last Bandit , which was nominated for the National Book Award, and, most recently, The Past Won't Stay Behind You and translations of the Lebanese poet Adonis entitled The Pages of Day and Night .

Deal W. Hudson teaches philosophy on the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University in New York City. The president of the American Maritain Association, he has edited the books Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend , The Future of Thomism , and, most recently, Sigrid Undset on Saints and Sinners (published in 1994 by Ignatius Press).

James Schaap has just published two books: a collection of short stories entitled Still Life (published through Dordt College Press, Sioux Center, Iowa) and Things We Couldn't Say , a biography of World War II Dutch resistance fighter Berendina Eman (published through Eerdman's Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan). His novel In the Silence There Are Ghosts is scheduled to be published in February 1995 by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Schaap is a professor of English at Dordt College.

Luci Shaw has written both non-fiction books (including God in the Dark) and several volumes of poetry. The latter include Listen to the Green, Horizons, Polishing the Petoskey Stone, and the new Writing the River. A teacher and editor, she is writer-in-residence at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.

John Skillen , a specialist in classical, medieval, and Renaissance literature, is an English professor and chairman of the English department at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachussetts. He frequently leads undergraduate summer seminars in Florence.

Marilyn Nelson Waniek 's third book of poems, The Homeplace, was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award. Her forthcoming book is Magnificat . She teaches at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and delivered the essay in this issue as one of her two 1994 George Elliston Memorial Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.

Miller Williams has published stories, translations, poems, and critical essays in most of the seminal journals and mass-circulation magazines in the United States. His twenty-six books include college textbooks (including How Does a Poem Mean?, with John Ciardi) and several volumes of his poetry, the most recent of which are Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems and Adjusting to the Light. His three poems in this issue will be part of Points of Departure, a book to be published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995. The winner of many major poetry awards, Mr. Williams is professor of English and foreign languages at the University of Arkansas.

Larry Woiwoode is one of America's leading novelists and short-story writers. In 1969, he won the prestigious William Faulkner Award for his first novel What I'm Going to Do, I Think. He has since written four critically acclaimed novels--Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Poppa John, Born Brothers and Indian Affairs--as well as two volumes of short stories--Silent Passengers and The Neumiller Stories--a book of poems, and a writer's meditation on the New Testament book of Acts. His stories have appeared in leading magazines such as Harpers and the New Yorker and have been selected for four of hte annual Best American Short Stories compilations.