Contributors' Notes: Issue Ten (Spring 2000)

Ralph Angel is the author of two books of poems: Anxious Latitudes and Neither World.

T.J. Beitelman lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he teaches creative writing at the
University of Alabama and is managing editor of the Black Warrior Review. His work has
appeared recently in Quarterly West and Sou'wester.

Dinah Berland's poems have appeared in Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other publications. She received her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College, a 1997-98 fellowship in poetry from the California Arts Council, and works as a book editor for Getty Trust Publications in Los Angeles.

Christopher Buckley's most recent book is Fall From Grace. His poems are forthcoming in The Journal, The Prose Poem, TriQuarterly, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and Rattle. His new anthology, edited with Gary Young, is The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place, is just out from HeyDay Books.

Pamela Burdak lives in Northampton, MA. Her poems have also appeared in Quarterly
West.

Trent Busch's poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, Hudson Review, North American Review, Chicago Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, New Criterion, The Kenyon Review, and The American Scholar.

Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of a chapbook, Between This Quivering (Coreopsis Press). Her poems have recently appeared in Potpourri, Red Cedar Review, and Tar River Poetry. She teaches writing at Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Suzanne Cleary received a fellowship from the New York Foundation of Arts and an
award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

Dobby Gibson lives in St. Paul and works in Minneapolis, making him the first Twin
Cities poet to operate truly "metro-wide." He is neither a professor nor associate professor of anything, nor is he currently in the employ of any creative writing program or workshop whatsoever. He is over six feet tall.

Ryan K. Guth's poems have appeared in Parnassus, Mobius, and Daedulus. Poems are forthcoming in Solo and Whirligig. He earned his MA from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and is working on his PhD at the University of Cincinnati.

Christopher Howell's sixth book, Memory and Heaven, was published in 1997. He teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University where he is also editor of Willow Springs and director of EWU Press. He has a poem forthcoming in the Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Zachary Jack teaches in the English Department at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His poetry appears in the Louisville Review, Distellery, and Lyrical Iowa and is forthcoming in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Most recently, Zachary has been a poet-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center and a finalist in this year's New Letters Literary Awards.

Judy Jordan's first book, Carolina Ghost Woods, won the Walt Whitman Award and her poems are included in the anthology American Poetry: Next Generation. She has completed two novels, Old Fenwick Road and Broken Days, Broken Hearts and is currently working on a memoir and a book-length poem.

Kevin King's poems have appeared most recently in Chiron Review and will appear in
Passages North, The New England Writer's Network, and The South Carolina Review.

Thomas Lux teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. His latest book is New and Selected Poems 1975-1995 (Houghton Mifflin).

Malinda Markham has recently had poems published or forthcoming in journals including Conjunction, Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, and Quarterly West.

Marc McKee teaches language arts at Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana.

Pablo Neruda received the Nobel Prize in 1971.

Kate Northrop is assistant poetry editor of American Poetry Review and assistant professor in creative writing at West Chester University. Her poems have appeared recently in Poet Lore and Rattle. Her book, Evening, was published in 1999 by Aralia Press.

Tom Noyes's stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in American Literary
Review, Ascent, High Plains Literary Review, Image, Whetstone, and other magazines. He's currently working towards his PhD at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

C. Mikal Oness has had work in the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and in a previous issue of Third Coast. His book Water Becomes Bone is forthcoming from New Issues Press. He operates Sutton Hoo Press, a literary fine press publishing limited edition books and broadsides of contemporary poetry and prose. He teaches creative writing and the art of the book at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse.

Ruben M. Quesada, a native of Costa Rica, grew up bilingual; his love for the Spanish
language motivated him to translate poems. He credits his mother's aid and support as
integral to his discovery of poetry.

Michael Russell is a Boston area native. He has recently completed a novel.

John Salter lives in Minnesota. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly,
Nebraska Review, and Massachusetts Review.

Barry Silesky is the author of One Thing That Can Save Us (prose poems), and The New Tenants (verse), and has published poems in Poetry, Boulevard, Witness, Notre Dame Review, and New American Writing. He is working on a biography of John Gardner.

Christine Sneed probably was in love with that man three years ago, but the jerk moved far away and hasn't spoken to her since, though she suspected he was capable of such a thing. She now lives in Chicago and happily writes stories and poems.

Bruce Snider's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and Hayden's Ferry Review. A former James A. Michener Fellow, he currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Justin Tussing, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is completing a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He is a bowling enthusiast.

Laura Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley, California,
where she is enrolled in the MA program in Creative Writing at San Francisco State
University. Her work will soon appear in the Battery Review and Coracle.

Kerri Webster lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where she recently received her MFA from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, and is forthcoming in River Styx where it was selected by Mark Doty as the winner of that magazine's annual poetry contest.

Tom Whalen's prose poems, stories, poems, essays and literary and film criticism have appeared in numerous magazines. His latest books include Winter Coat (poetry),
Roithamer's Universe (novel), and, with Daniel Quinn, the comic fiction, A Newcomer's
Guide to the Afterlife.

Mark Winegardner is the director of the creative writing program at Florida State
University. His most recent novel is The Veracruz Blues; his novel Crooked River Burning will be published in 2001 by Harcourt Brace.