Issue 35

Contributors

Susan J. Allspaw is currently a part-time instructor at community colleges in the Seattle area. She is working on a manuscript of poems about her experience in Antarctica. Her work has been published in literary journals such as Boulevard, New England Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Clackamas Literary Review.

Christopher Jane Corkery’s Blessing was published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Kate Daniels’s books of poetry include The White Wave, The Niobe Poems (both from Pittsburgh), and Four Testimonies (Louisiana State). She has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Crazyhorse Prize, Pushcart Prize, Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, and James Dickey Prize. For twenty years a teacher, she is currently an associate professor at Vanderbilt University.

Rosemary Deen taught literature and writing at Queens College CUNY and is poetry editor of Commonweal. She has co-authored two books on the teaching of writing, including Beat Not the Poor Desk (Boynton/Cook), which won a national award. She has a large garden and a book of essays, Naming the Light (Illinois). With Blake scholar Leonard Deen she has co-authored five children.

Scott Derrickson co-wrote Urban Legends: Final Cut for Phoenix Pictures and Hellraiser: Inferno, which he directed for Miramax’s Dimension Films. He recently wrote a spiritual thriller for Disney, The Mystic, set among Pentecostal snake-handling churches in Appalachia, and is currently working on an adaptation of Beware the Night for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

B.H. Fairchild’s most recent book of poems, The Art of the Lathe (Alice James), was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award and received the Kingsley Tufts Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN Center West Poetry Award. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowships. The poems here are included in his forthcoming book, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton).

Alice Friman, published in twelve countries and anthologized widely, has produced seven collections of poetry, including Inverted Fire (BkMk Press) and Zoo (Arkansas), winner of the Ezra Pound Poetry Award. She is the recipient of a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and was named to the 2001-2002 Georgia Poetry Circuit.

Martin Galvin’s poems, essays, and stories have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Poetry, the Christian Science Monitor, Best American Poetry, and Commonweal. His most recent book is Appetites, a chapbook from Bogg Publications. He has taught for thirty-five years in the Washington, D.C., area.

A.G. Harmon has written several novels and contributed essays, interviews, and fiction to Image. His essays also appear in Logos and in the anthology Things in Heaven and Earth (Paraclete), edited by Harold Fickett. He teaches at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.

Dale M. Kushner is the founder of the Writers’ Place, a literary center in Madison, Wisconsin. Her poetry has appeared in Crazyhorse, The Ohio Review, Poetry, Salmagundi, and others. Her collection, Another Kingdom, was translated into Serbo-Croatian and published in Yugoslavia. She has studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland and is currently at work on a novel, Lower than Angels, part of which has been published in The Literary Review.

John Leax has published three collections of poems and several collections of essays. His most recent book is Out Walking (Baker). He has taught at Houghton College, where he is poet-in-residence, since 1968.

Roger Lundin is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College. He is the author of The Culture of Interpretation, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (both from Eerdmans), and Literature Through the Eyes of Faith (Harper & Row). He currently directs a project for the Pew Charitable Trusts on the intersection of religion and literature in America.

Sharon McMahon Moffitt is a poet, a teacher, and an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church, USA. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, and she has taught English and creative writing in junior and senior high school for thirty years. She and her husband, Don, live in University Place, Washington. “Like Honey in the Comb” is taken from The Blessed: A Sinner Reflects on Living the Christian Life, forthcoming this fall from Zondervan Press and used by permission.

Meg Mullins earned her MFA from Columbia University. Recently her work has appeared in The Iowa Review and The Baltimore Review. Her story “The Rug” will be included in The Best American Short Stories 2002. She lives with her husband and two children in New Mexico, where she is at work on her first novel.

Virgil Nemoianu is William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He is vice president of the International Comparative Literature Association and an executive council member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

George Prochnik is a writer living in New York City. He is currently finishing a novel which plays off of parallels between the rhetoric of land politics in the Middle East and body politics in the U.S. He has recently been published in Ctheory, PIF, and Small Spiral Notebook.

Steven Schwartz’s books include the novels Therapy (Harcourt Brace) and A Good Doctor’s Son (William Morrow). He has received the 1999 Colorado Book Award, the Nelson Algren Award, an NEA fellowship, and two O. Henry Awards. He teaches creative writing at Colorado State.

John Terpstra has published six books of poetry, most recently The Church Not Made with Hands (Wolsak & Wynn) and Devil’s Punch Bowl (Saint Thomas Poetry Series). He has also released a CD of poetry read to music, Nod Me In, Shake Me Out. A version of his essay will appear in his forthcoming book on love of landscape, Falling into Place (Gaspereau).