Contributors' Notes: Issue Three (Summer/Fall 1996)

Maggie Anderson is the author of three books of poems, most recently A Space Filled With Moving (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992). She teaches poetry at Kent State University.

Beth Bentley has had two collections of poems published by Ohio University Press, and three chapbooks published by small presses. Ms. Bentley has had work in Gettysburg Review, Fine Madness, Passages North, and Best American Poetry 1989, to name a few. She has received an National Endowment for the Arts grant, and has a new collection of poems, Little Fires, forthcoming from CUNE Press.

Sean Bentley's work has appeared widely in Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Another Chicago Magazine, among others. He has two books, Into The Bright Oasis (Jawbone Press) and Instances (Confluence Press). His chapbook, Grace and Desolation, was recently issued by CUNE Press.

Richard Cecil's book, Alcatraz (Purdue University Press, 1992) won the Verna Emery Prize. He teaches at Indiana University.

Billy Collins' fourth book, Questions About Angels (Morrow, 1991), was a National Poetry Series selection.

Caroline Crumpacker lives in Manhattan and works at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and her work has appeared in Gulf Coast and Seneca Review.

Chris Currie lives in Atlanta, where he teaches English at Kennesaw State College and Mercer University College. He has a short story forthcoming from Another Chicago Magazine. "Faith, Hope, and Love" is a chapter excerpted from Last Seen Still Rising, a novel he's still working on.

James D'Agostino is finishing his MFA at Indiana University.

Carl Dennis' most recent collection is Ranking the Wishes (Penguin, 1996). He teaches at SUNY-Buffalo.

Alice B. Fogel's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 1993, Ploughshares, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of two books of poems. Ms. Fogel teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

Elton Glaser has published more than four hundred poems in literary magazines and anthologies, such as Poetry, The Georgia Review and The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry. He has published three full-length collections of poems, including his most recent Color Photographs of the Ruins (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992). Among his awards are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, and inclusion in The Best American Poetry 1995.

Prudence Grimes is a student in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches writing. She has just finished a novel set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

David Gullette is a founding editor of Ploughshares and Literary Director of The Poets' Theatre in Cambridge. He has written two books about revolutionary poetry in Nicaragua--Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname (West End) and Gaspar! A Spanish Poet/Priest in the Nicaraguan Revolution (Bilingual Press)--both containing bilingual anthologies. He teaches English and writing at Simmons College in Boston.

John Haines' collected poems, The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer (Greywolf) appeared in 1993.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly's second book, Song, was recently published by BOA editions.

Joanie V. Mackowski's poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, Poetry Northwest, Antioch Review, and Paris Review, among others. A former finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fey di Castignola Award, she was recently awarded a month-long residency at Centrum Center for the Arts.

Campbell McGrath's Spring Comes to Chicago will appear in 1996 from Ecco Press.

Heather McHugh is the Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington.

Chris Mohnacky was a former editor of Whetstone. He graduated from Fairmont State College and is presently working on a novel, Prospekts.

Wang Ping's work has appeared in The World, Sulfur, Chicago Review and many others. She had work chosen for the Best American Poetry 1993 and Best American Poetry 1996, and has published a book of short stories, American Visa, with Coffee House Press. Her novel, Foreign Devil, is forthcoming from Coffee House. "The Tunnel War" is a chapter from that novel.

Candice Reffe's work has previously appeared in Agni, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She lives in Provincetown.

William Reichard is a Minneapolis-based poet whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is poetry editor for the James White Review, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.

David Rivard teaches at Vermont College and Tufts University.

J. Allyn Rosser's first collection, Bright Movees (Northeastern University Press), was a Morse Poetry Prize winner.

Josh Russell lives in Broomfield, Colorado. He has published fiction in Southwest Review, Puerto del Sol and EPOCH. "Eighteen in Love" is one of a trio of Riley stories; another is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly.

David Shields is the author of two novels, including Dead Languages, and a collection of stories. His most recent collection of work, Remote, was published by Knopf. He lives in Seattle and teaches English at the University of Washington.

Peggy Shumaker teaches at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Emily Skoler has an MFA from Vermont College. She teaches high school and has published in New England Review, Passages North, and Cimarron Review.

Maura Stanton's fourth book of poems, Life Among the Trolls, was recently published by Godine.

Russell Thorburn lives in Marquette, Michigan, and teaches at the prison there.

Robert Wrigley's fourth book of poems, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin), was published last year.