Contributors' Notes: Issue One (Spring 1995)

Anthony Bukoski's stories have appeared in New Letters, The Literary Review, and Akcent (Poland). He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Andrea Cornachio is a former waitress and stockbroker currently completing an M.F.A in fiction at the University of Oregon. "Mariachi" is her second published story.

Mark Cox's new book, 37 Years From the Stone, will be published in Fall 1995 by Godine, who also published his first book, Smoulder. He teaches at Oklahoma State University and in the Vermont College M.F.A. Program.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of Science and Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1994), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and author of Temporary Homelands (Mercury House 1994), a collection of essays about nature. She is the director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Anne Finger has written a collection of short stories, Basic Skills, and a novel, Bone Truth, published in 1994 by Coffee House press. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review and the Southern Review. Her grants and awards include a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship and the Louisiana State University Southern Review award for short fiction. Ms. Finger teaches at Wayne State University.

Carol Frost is the author of seven books of poetry; her most recent, Pure, was published in 1994 by TriQuarterly Books. She is writer-in-residence at Hartwick College.

Catherine Gammon is the author of the novel Isabel Out of the Rain (Mercury House, 1991). Other recent fiction appears in Central Park, Manoa, and The Kenyon Review. She teaches fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

Edward Hirsch's fourth book of poetry, Earthly Measures, was published in 1994 by Knopf. His second book, Night Parade, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He teaches at the University of Houston.

Lynda Hull's first book of poetry, Ghost Money, won the Juniper Prize in 1986; Star Ledger, her second book, received the 1990 Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award. David St. John said of her work, "These poems become urgent dispatches from the present as well as elegant leaves of a memorial diary for what has been loved and left, loved and lost." Her third book, The Only World, was published posthumously in 1995.

Janet Kauffman's most recent book is the novel The Body in Four Parts (Greywolf, 1993).

Janice Kulyk Keefer, is the author of eight books of prose, poetry and criticism. She has read from her work in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and has won many awards. Her most recent novel is Rest Harrow (1992). Her last collection of stories was Traveling Ladies (1991). She teaches creative writing and English and Canadian literature at the University of Guelph.

Lisa Lewis's first book of poetry, The Unbeliever, won the Brittingham Prize in 1994. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Passages North and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Rhodes College and lives in Memphis.

Kate McCorkle's stories have appeared in The Colorado Review, The New England Review, Witness, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Butte College in Chico, California.

Lucia Maria Perillo's manuscript, Dangerous Life, won the 1989 Morse Poetry Prize and was published by Northeastern University Press. She teaches at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

David Rivard is the author of Torque, a book of poetry published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has twice been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches at Tufts University.

Alane Rollings has published three collections of poetry, most recently The Struggle To Adore (Story Line Press, 1994.) Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly and elsewhere. She has taught at Loyola University and the University of Chicago.

Leon Rooke received Canada's Governor-General's Award for his book, Shakespeare's Dog. He has written three novels, including Fat Women, and A Good Baby, and eleven collections of short stories. He is the recipient of the Canada-Australia Award, and NEA Fellowship, and several Canada Council Awards.

Diann Blakely Shoaf is the author of Hurricane Walk, published in 1992 by BOA Editions. Poems from her new manuscript, Not a Stranger, have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, and The Nation.

Roger Weingarten's eighth book of poetry, Ghost Wrestling, will be published in 1995 by Godine. He is the Director of the M.F.A. Program in Writing at Vermont College.

Jean Thompson is the author of The Woman Driver, Little Face and Other Stories, My Wisdom, and The Gasoline Wars. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Ploughshares, New England Review, The New Yorker and Best Short Stories of 1979. She was awarded a 1995 Pushcart Prize for fiction. Ms. Thompson teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana.