Contributor Notes and Cover Credit: Summer 2007
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Distillery Warehouse, Toronto © 2007 by Andrew Petersen
Andrew Petersen works as an oncology specialist for Novartis. He is also an art photographer and a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln´s School of Journalism. This photograph is of a grain drying warehouse in the Distillery District of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Prose
Leonard S. Bernstein is the author of five books. He has published stories and articles in Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the New York Times, among others.
Erica Johnson Debeljak´s short fiction has recently appeared in Nimrod, Epoch, and the Missouri Review. She lives with her husband and children in Slovenia, where she has published two books of literary nonfiction, Foreigner in the House of Natives and Kosovel: The Poet and I, as well as a collection of short stories.
Emily Grosholz´s book Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences will be published by Oxford University Press this August, following The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir (Oxford). She is currently working on a book entitled Mathematics and Poetry.
Alice Hoffman is the author of eighteen works of fiction, most recently Skylight Confessions, available from Little, Brown, and Co.
Amy Hoffman is editor−in−chief of Women´s Review of Books. Her memoir Hospital Time, about taking care of friends with aids, is available from Duke University Press. It was short−listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and was a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection. An Army of Ex−Lovers, her memoir about her work at Gay Community News and Boston´s lesbian and gay movement during the late 1970s, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press this Fall. Hoffman lives in Boston with her spouse, Roberta Stone.
Jesse Lee Kercheval´s books include the poetry collections World as Dictionary and Dog Angel, the novel The Museum of Happiness, and the short story collection, The Dogeater. Her new collection, The Alice Stories, from which these two stories are taken, was the winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction and will be published this Fall by the University of Nebraska Press.
Anthony Lee is a recipient of the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts. His stories have appeared in the Missouri Review and Florida Review. His novel, The Fix, is available from Harper Paperbacks.
Rachael Perry´s first collection of stories, How to Fly, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is currently at work on a novel.
Valery Varble was the first Axton Fellow in Fiction Writing at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Her novel−in−progress, A Vine in the Blood, was a finalist for the PEN/Nelson Algren Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared in the Colorado Review, Ascent, and Mid−American Review, for which she received the 2006 Sherwood Anderson Prize.
Poetry
Liz Ahl´s poems have appeared in Isotope, Crab Orchard Review, the Formalist, the Women´s Review of Books, and other journals and anthologies. She lives in New Hampshire where she teaches poetry writing, women´s studies, and literature at Plymouth State University.
John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes that together have won The Academy of American Poets´ Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2003, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest book of poetry is Path, Crooked Path, published by Copper Canyon Press.
Judith Barrington is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently Horses and the Human Soul (Story Line Press, 2004). Lifesaving: A Memoir, was the winner of the 2000 Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. She is published widely in literary journals and teaches at workshops across the United States and in Britain.
Debra Bruce has poetry published or forthcoming in recent issues of the Christian Science Monitor, Dark Horse, Measure, Shenandoah, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
J. V. Brummels´s poems have been widely published, and his most recent collection is Book of Grass. A longtime professor at Wayne State College, he lives with his family in western Wayne County, Nebraska, where they maintain a horseback cattle operation.
Christopher Buckley is the author of fourteen poetry books, including Sky and And the Sea (Sheep Meadow), and two books of nonfiction. He has received four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, a Fulbright fellowship, and two NEA grants. His fifteenth book, Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.
Peter Cooley has published seven books, six of them with Carnegie Mellon, which will also publish his eighth book, Divine Margins, this year. He teaches creative writing at Tulane.
Robert Dana´s most recent books of poetry are The Morning Of The Red Admirals, (Anhinga Press, 2004); Summer (Anhinga Press, 2000); and Hello, Stranger (Anhinga Press, 1996). He is currently the Poet Laureate of Iowa.
Carol V. Davis is the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry from Truman State University Press. Her book Into the Arms of Pushkin will be published this fall. She is the author of two chapbooks, Letters from Prague and The Violin Teacher. She has twice been a Fulbright scholar in Russia, where her full−length collection, It´s Time to Talk About . . . was published in a bilingual edition.
Denise Duhamel´s work has appeared in previous issues of Prairie Schooner. Her most recent books are Two and Two (Pittsburgh), Mille et un sentiments (Firewheel Editions), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh). She teaches creative writing at Florida International University in Miami.
Annie Finch´s most recent books are a long poem, The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt) and The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (Chicago). She is Director of the Stonecoast brief−residency MFA at the University of South Maine.
Gary Fincke´s most recent poetry collection is Standing Around the Heart (Arkansas). His collection of stories, Sorry I Worried You, won the Flannery O´Connor Prize and is available from the University of Georgia Press.
Susan Firer is the author of four books of poetry. Her third, The Lives of the Saints and Everything, won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize and the Posner Award. Her New and Selected Poems 1979–2007: Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People is forthcoming from Backwaters Press this fall.
John Gery is the author of five books of poetry, including Davenport´s Version (Portals Press), previously reviewed in Prairie Schooner, and A Gallery of Ghosts (Story Line Press). He has been named a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Belgrade for the Spring of 2007. His work appears in Callaloo, Paideuma, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere.
Patricia Goedicke was the author of twelve books of poems, the most recent of which, As Earth Begins to End, was one of the American Library Association´s top ten poetry books of 2000. Her book, The Tongues We Speak, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She was the winner of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the William Carlos Williams prize for poetry from New Letters. Ms. Goedicke died last summer in Missoula, Montana, where she was a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana.
William Greenway´s eighth collection is Fishing at the End of the World, from Word Press. His seventh collection, Ascending Order, which won the 2004 Ohioana Best Book of Poetry Prize, is available from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series.
Megan Harlan´s poems are forthcoming in TriQuarterly, have been featured twice on Poetry Daily, and have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Phoebe, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and Sycamore Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
David Hernandez´s poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). Early next year, Harper−Collins will publish his first novel, Suckerpunch. His poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, TriQuarterly, AGNI, the Southern Review, and the Iowa Review. David lives in Long Beach, California and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.
Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an ‘‘American Health Hero.´´ He is the author of the chapbook Sailing with the Pleiades (Main Street Rag) and the collection, A Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press).
Richard Jackson´s latest books are Heartwall (Massachusetts), Unauthorized Autobiography (Ashland), and Half Lives (Autumn House). Among his awards, he has won Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and five Pushcart Prizes.
Julie Kane´s most recent poetry collection, Rhythm & Booze (Illinois), was a winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the 2005 Poets´ Prize. She is the editor, with Grace Bauer, of Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press).
David Keplinger is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Prayers of Others (New Issues), and a collection of translations from the Danish: World Cut out with Crooked Scissors: The Selected Poetry of Carsten Rene Nielsen. His first book won the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2003 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sandra Kohler´s second collection of poems, The Ceremonies of Longing (Pittsburgh), was winner of the 2002 AWP Award Series in Poetry. Her earlier collection is The Country of Women (Calyx Books). Her poems have appeared in Diner, Elixir, Flyway, the Colorado Review, the New Republic, and other magazines.
Julia Lisella´s first full−length collection of poems, Terrain, appears this summer from WordTech Editions. She is the author of a chapbook of poems, Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004), and has published her poems in Many Mountains Moving, Solo, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals. She teaches English at Regis College is Weston, Massachusetts.
Kelly Madigan Erlandson´s poems and essays have appeared in Crazy−horse, Barrow Street, Smartish Pace, the Massachusetts Review, and 32 Poems. She has been a writer in residence at Jentel Artist Residency Program, and KHN Center for the Arts. In 2006, she was awarded the Distinguished Artist Award in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council. She is the author of the how−to book, Getting Sober (McGraw−Hill, 2007).
Charlotte Mandel´s recent books of poetry include Sight Lines (Midmarch Arts) and two poem−novellas of feminist biblical revision—The Life of Mary and The Marriages of Jacob. As an independent scholar, she has published a series of articles on the role of cinema in the life and work of poet H. D. She teaches poetry writing at Barnard College Center for Research on Women.
Jennifer Militello is the author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press). Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI Online, the Bellingham Review, the Greensboro Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Laurel Review.
Robert Pack´s most recent books of poetry are Elk in Winter and Composing Voices. A new collection of his, Still Here, Still Now will appear this year. His interpretive reading of major Shakespeare plays, Willing to Choose: Volition and Storytelling, was published this past winter. Distinguished Senior Professor in Humanities, Pack teaches in the Honors College of the University of Montana.
Linda Pastan has published twelve volumes of poetry, most recently Queen of a Rainy Country. She is the former Poet Laureate of Maryland and was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer´s conference for twenty years. In 2003, she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
D´Arcy Randall is a founder of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, Quarterly West, and Southern Poetry Review. She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.
Marjorie Saiser´s books are Bones of a Very Fine Hand (Backwaters), Lost in Seward County (Backwaters), and a chapbook, Moving On (Lone Willow).
Maureen Seaton´s fifth collection, Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon), won the Publishing Triangle´s Audre Lorde Award. She lives three miles up the beach from her friend and co−writer, Denise Duhamel, in Hollywood, Florida.
Lee Sharkey is the author of To A Vanished World (Puckerbrush), a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac´s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years preceding the Nazi Holocaust, and the editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal.
Ross Talarico is the author of Spreading the Word: Poetry and the Survival of Community in America winner of the Modern Language Association´s Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for the outstanding book of the year on literature and writing. His work has been published in hundreds of magazines and journals, among them the Atlantic, Arts & Letters, the Nation, Poetry, the North American Review, the American Poetry Review, and others.
Kathrine Varnes is the author of a book of poems, The Paragon, and is coeditor with Annie Finch of An Exaltation of Forms. Recent work appears in Per Contra, Ars Interpres, and Black Clock. She coordinates collaborative sonnet crowns from Lexington, Kentucky, where she teaches at the University.
Ingrid Wendt´s books of poems include Surgeonfish, winner of the 2004 Editions Prize, The Angle of Sharpest Ascending, winner of the 2003 Yellow−glen Award, Blow the Candle Out, Singing the Mozart Requiem, winner of the Oregon Book Award, and Moving the House. She co−edited the anthologies In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts and From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. Winner of the Carolyn Kizer Award and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, Wendt has been a three−time Fulbright professor to Germany, and guest lecturer at several international universities.
Lesley Wheeler´s poetry appears in AGNI, Barrow Street, Poetry Southeast, and other journals. She teaches at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Review
Nicky Beer´s poetry and reviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, Indiana Review, and Pleiades, among others.
Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska−Lincoln. His collections of poetry include Instruments of the Bones, A Step in the Dark, and History.
Linnea Johnson has published poems in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Nimrod, American Poetry Review, and the Beloit Poetry Review, among others.
Sanford Pinsker is an emeritus professor at Franklin and Marshall College. He now resides in South Florida where doctors are as much a part of his life as sunshine and alligators.
Judith Sornberger´s collections of poetry are Open Heart, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Bifocals Barbie: A Midlife Pantheon, and Bones of Light. She is professor of English and Director of Women´s Studies at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
