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Contributor Notes and Cover Credit: Spring 2001


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EY - on retina by Elizabeth Golding
Elizabeth Goldring is a Senior Fellot at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies where she is creating visual experiences and a "seeing machign" work station for people with little or not sight. Her books include Laser Treatment (Blue Giant P, 1983) and Without Warning (Helicon Nine Editions and BkMk P, 1995). Her poems, photographs, and commentary about her have appeared in anthologies, journals, and the media, nationally and internationally. Her Retina Prints (MIT urop assistance: John Rothenberg, Laura Cerritelli, and Diana Ng) will be exhibited by the MIT Museum in Spring, 2001. She lives in Groton, MA and Duesseldorf, Germany. Special thanks to Orent Grapic Arts, Inc., Lincoln NE, for the color seperations. 

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PROSE

Jane Bernstein's most recent book is a memoir, Bereft: A Sister's Story (North Point P, 2000). Her last Prairie Schooner essay, "The Black Dog," (Fall 1998) was listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 1999.
Chitra Divakaruni's stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Ms., Chicago Review, and Best American Short Stories 1999. Her books include Arranged Marriages: Stories, The Mistress of Spices, and Leaving Yuba City: Poems. "The Unknown Errors of Our Lives" is the title story of her new collection, due this spring.
Ellen Hunnicutt's works include a novel, Suite for Calliope (Walker, 1987) and a story collection, In the Music Library (Pittsburgh, 1987).
Timothy Schaffert's work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, Press, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. His awards include the Henfield/TransAtlantic Review Award, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship. "Parts and Labor" is part of a novel; another part of the novel was published in Prairie Schooner (Summer 1998) as "Wolves at Bay."
Sara Vogan's books include Loss of Flight, Blue Prints, and In Shelly's Leg.
 

POETRY

Naveed Alam was born and raised in Pakistan and received a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon.
Roy Bentley's work has appeared in The Ohio Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Indiana Review, New Virginia Review, and other journals. His poetry collections are Boy in a Boat (U of Alabama, 1986) and Any One Man (Bottom Dog Books, 1992).
Deborah Brown's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literature, The Women's Review of Books, The Southwest Review, The Connecticut Review, Yankee Magazine, and The Beloit Poetry Journal.
Josh Bell holds a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in Quarterly West.
Jonas Brown lives in America.
Scott Cairns's has published numerous collections of poetry, including Recovered Body, Figures for the Ghost, The Translation of Babel, and The Theology of Doubt. His poems are forthcoming in Ascent, Paris Review, New Virginia Review, and Spirituality and Health.
James Cihlar's poems have appeared in The James White Review, Northeast, and Minnesota Monthly. He is the marketing director for Coffee House Press.
Peter Cooley's poem is from his sixth poetry collection, A Place Made of Starlight, due next year from Carnegie Mellon.
Diana Der-Hovanessian's poems have appeared in American Scholar, Agni, Nation, New Republic, and CSM. Her most recent collection is Any Day Now (Sheep Meadow P, 1999).
Max Garland's The Postal Confessions (U Mass P) was winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. His poems and fiction have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Best American Short Stories, and other places.
Elizabeth Goldring (see note above).
Richard Jackson has published two books of poems, Heart's Bridge (Aureole, Toledo U, 1999) and Alive All Day (Cleveland, 1992). Heart Wall, winner of the 1999 Juniper Prize, was published by U Mass Press in 2000.
Karen I. Jaquish's poems have appeared in The Nation, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and Connecticut Poetry Review.
John Kinsella is an Australian writer and fellow at Churchill College in England. His books include The Hunt, Poems 1980-1994, and Visitants
Philip Kobylarz has poems forthcoming in Colorado Review and Columbia Poetry Review, creative non-fiction due in The Iowa Review, recent photos in Artful Dodge, and a steady stream of book reviews in Memphis's daily, The Commercial Appeal.
Marsha Larsen's poems have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Maryland Poetry Review, and Potato Eyes.
Peter Makuck has published three books of poetry, the most recent Against Distance (boa Editions, 1997), and a collection of stories, Breaking and Entering (U if Illinois P, 1982). He is the editor of Tar River Poetry.
Alison Mansfield is a wife and mother living in Wisconsin.
Constance Merritt's poetry collection A Protocol for Touch (U of N Texas P, 2000) won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Her recent work appears or will appear in Descant, The Journal, CrazyHorse and a special issue of Callaloo.
Matthew Miller lives in rural Iowa near Iowa City. His poems can be found in current or forthcoming issues of New Letters, Sycamore Review, and Massachusetts Review.
B. Z. Niditch's collection of poetry Crucifixion Times was published by University Editions. His work has appeared in the Anthology of Magazine Verse, Yearbook of American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Prism International, and The Literary Review.
Susan Atefat Peckham was born first generation American to Iranian parents, and has lived most of her life in France and Switzerland although she has also lived in the United States and Iran. Her poetry manuscript That Kind of Sleep was a winner of the National Poetry Series in 2000 and is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2001. Her work has been selected for inclusion in the anthology In the Fields of Words (Prentice-Hall, 2001) and new work has appeared or is forthcoming in Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review, The International Poetry Review, International Quarterly, Northwest Review, OntheBus, Puerto del Sol, The Southern Poetry Review, and The Sycamore Review. She currently lives in Holland, Michigan.
Linda Tomol Pennisi's poems have appeared in Louisville Review, Red Brick Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Paintbrush, Many Mountains Moving, and other journals.
Dannye Romine Powell has published a book of poetry, At Every Wedding Someone Stays Home (U of Arkansas), and a nonfiction book, Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers. Her poems appear in journals such as Poetry, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and others.
Ron Rash's collection Eureka Mill was published by Bench Press in 1998. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, among others.
David Salner has worked in iron ore mines and steel foundries all over the country and he is a member of the International Association of Machinists Trade Union. His poetry has appeared in The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, North American Review, Borderlands, The Literary Review, and other publications. 
Rebecca Seiferle's books include The Music We Dance To (Sheep Meadow, 1999), The Ripped-Out Seam (Sheep Meadow, 1993), and Trilce, a translation of César Vallejo from Spanish. The Music We Dance To won the Cecil Meley Award from the Poetry Society of America, was a Pulitzer prize nominee, and work from the collection appears in Best American Poetry 2000
R. T. Smith is the editor of Shenandoah. His books include Trespasser (LSU, 1996), Messenger (LSU, forthcoming 2001), and Selected Poems (Salmon, 1999).
Gabriel Spera's work has appeared in DoubleTake, Laurel Review, Ontario Review, Poetry, New England Review, The Southern Review, and others.
Judith Taylor's first book Curios was published in 2000 by Sarabande Books. Recent poems appear in CrazyHorse, Witness, and Quarterly West.
Connie Wanek's book Bonfire was published by New Rivers Press in 1997 and was a 1998 winner of the Willow Review prize in poetry. Poems are forthcoming in Poetry and other journals.
Eleanor Wilner's most recent book of poems is Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon P, 1998).
 

REVIEWS 

Marcus Cafagña's first book The Broken World was selected for the National Poetry Series. New poems are forthcoming from TriQuarterly and Crab Orchard Review.
Douglas Clayton is the Director of the Masters Program in Writing and Publishing at Emerson College and former editor-in-chief at the University of Nebraska Press. He is the author of Floyd Dell: The Life and Times of an American Rebel.
Jason Gray is a literary columnist for the George Mason Broadside. He has work forthcoming in Poetry.
Jonathan Holden's most recent books include Guns and Boyhood in America (U Michigan P, 1997), The Old Formalism: Character in Contemporary American Poetry (U Arkansas P, 1999), and Knowing: New and Selected Poems (U Arkansas P, 2000).
Carolyn Johnsen is a broadcast journalist for Nebraska Public Radio. She has received numerous journalism awards from the Associated Press along with first place national awards in investigative reporting and breaking news from the Public Radio News Directors, Inc. Two of her essays were included in Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West.
 
 

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