Contributors' Notes: Issue Eleven (Fall 2000)

About the Artist: Dick Keaveny was born in 1940 in Lynn Massachusetts. He received a
BS in Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1961 and a MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. He is a Professor of Art at Western Michigan University where he teaches contemporary art history classes. His most recent solo and two person exhibitions include "Scenes from the Series Rouse Simmons" at The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (1994), "Portraits Real and Otherwise" at The Ann Arbor Art Center (1996) and "Burlesques" at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art (2000).

Artist's Statement: My paintings are figurative and abstract, using iconic imagery from art history and/or stereotypical images from popular culture. Soldiers, saints, cowboys and clowns are some of the assorted characters that I have been experimenting with. Recent paintings have become a type of reverie for me, a preoccupation with who I was and what I was attracted to, when as an adolescent, I began to paint.

David J. Daniels is a former Stadler Poetry Fellow at Bucknell University. He received an MFA from Indiana University where he currently pursues a PhD in American Literature.

Tenaya Darlington's poetry has appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, Southern Poetry Review, Sonora Review, and The Chronicle for Higher Education. These two poems are included in her forthcoming book, Madame Deluxe, winner of the National Poetry Series. Madame Deluxe will be published by Coffee House Press in August 2000.

Oliver de la Paz currently teaches English at Arizona State University. He has recently been published in Borderlands and The Asian Pacific American Journal. His book of prose and verse, Names Above Houses, was selected as a runner-up in the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry and will be published next year with Southern Illinois University Press.

Joseph Di Prisco's new book of poems, Poems in Which, won the Dorothy Brunsman Prize (Bear Star, summer 2000). He is co-author of a book about adolescence and growing up, Field Guide to the American Teenager, published by Perseus Books (Fall 2000). He lives in Berkeley, California,
and his website is www.diprisco.com.

Sharon Dilworth is the author of two collections of short stories, The Long White and Women Drinking Benedictine. The fiction editor of Carnegie Mellon University Press, she lives in Pittsburgh.

Ian Ganassi's poetry has appeared most recently in Poetry New York, American Letters & Commentary and Denver Quarterly. New work is forthcoming in The Yale Review.

Cameron K. Gearen is finishing her MFA at Indiana University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, River Styx, Many Mountains Moving, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hawai'i Review, and The Grolier Prize Annual 1994.

Mary Jo Firth Gillett's recent chapbook, Tiger in a Hairnet, won the '99 Select Poet's Series and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her other chapbook, Not One, won the '98 Detroit Writer's Voice Contest. Her poems have appeared in journals including Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, Green Mountains Review, and Crab Orchard Review.

Brian Henry's first book of poetry, Astronaut, appeared earlier in 2000 in England from Arc Publications and in translation in Slovenia from Mondena publishing. His poems have appeared recently in The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, New American Writing, and other magazines. He edits Verse.

Chris Hudson is an editor at an academic reference publisher in Chicago and has an MFA from Indiana University.

Chuck Kinder is the author of Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, and Honeymooners, which is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He teaches fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

David Dodd Lee is the author of the full-length collection The Downsides of Fish Culture (1997) and the chapbook Wilderness which came out this year. He lives in Kalamazoo where he works as a freelance writer.

Trudy Lewis's first novel, Private Correspondences, won the 1994 William Goyen Prize for Fiction and was published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press. Her short fiction has recently appeared in Prairie Schooner, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction,
Five Points, and New England Review, and is forthcoming in Atlantic Monthly and Witness.

David Oliveira's work appears in the collaboration A Near Country: Poems of Loss (Solo Press), and the anthology The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place (Heyday Books). His work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and he has been named Santa Barbara's Poet
Laureate for the year 2000.

Mary Ann Samyn is the author of Captivity Narrative, winner of the 1999 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Prize, and her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Field, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor for Controlled Burn.

Christine Sneed lives in Chicago and works at the School of the Art Institute. Her stories are forthcoming in The Laurel Review and Greensboro Review. The poetry editors at Third Coast also
recently made her day by accepting two of her poems for the Spring 2000 issue.

Eric Schwerer has published poems in Artful Dodge, Sonora Review, Kentucky Writing, Swollen Fingers Review, and Noggin. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa and is working on his PhD at Ohio University.

Charles Simic's recent books of poems are Jackstraws (1999), Walking the Black Cat (1996), a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, A Wedding in Hell (1994), and Hotel Insomnia (1992). His book The World Doesn't End (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989) won the Pulitzer Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the NEA. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire.

Maura Stanton's fourth book of poetry, Life Among the Trolls, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Southwest Review, and The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal.

S. Stephanie is a nurse in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She has an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. Her recent work and reviews can be found in The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Cafe Review, The Contemporary Review, and The Sun.

Brian Teare is completing his MFA at Indiana University, where he held the 1997-98 Lilly Fellowship in Poetry, and has received a Stegner Fellowship for 2000-02. A poetry editor for Indiana Review and Assistant Director of the IU Writer's Conference, his poetry has appeared in Poet Lore and Spoon River Poetry Review's 1999 Editor's Prizes, and is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Crab Orchard Review Pleiades, and Quarterly West.

Russell Thorburn is the author of a book of poems, Approximate Desire (New Issues Poetry Press, 1999). He works as an artist-in-residence in Lake Linden, Michigan, through a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He was an NEA Fellow for 1999. His recently completed book of poetry is entitled Exposed Splendor. Poems from it are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Black Warrior Review.

Charles Harper Webb's most recent book, Liver, won the Felix Pollak Prize and was published in 1999 by the University of Wisconsin Press. He has also received the S.F. Morse Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He teaches at California State University at Long Beach.

Jonah Winter is a children's book author/illustrator whose most recent book is FAIR BALL: 14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro Leagues (Scholastic, 1999). You may purchase CDs of his band,
Ed's Redeeming Qualities, at a record store near you. Winter's poems have appeared regularly in Field, Exquisite Corpse, and Ploughshares.