Contributors

Linda-Ruth Berger lives and writes in Contoocook, New Hampshire. She received the 1986-87 New Hampshire State Council On The Arts Award.

James Carlos Blake was born in Mexico and raised in California, Texas, and Florida. After serving as a U.S. Army paratrooper, he attended college in Florida and Ohio. He has lived and worked in the Far East and the Middle East. He now lives in Florida.

Andrei Codrescu lives in New Orleans, teaches at Louisiana State University in nearby Baton Rouge, and edits Exquisite Corpse, a quarterly journal of the avant-garde.

Ralph Earle is proprietor of the Carolina Bookshop in Sanford, North Carolina.

Natalie Goldberg lives and writes in Taos, New Mexico.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Marilyn Shea lives in Castro Valley, California.

Kathleen Snipes lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Roger Steinmetz lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and teaches writing to college students.

Susan M. Watkins is the author of Conversations with Seth: The Story of Jane Roberts’s ESP Class (Prentice Hall). She lives in Rock Stream, New York, where she’s working on a book entitled, The Year of Dreaming Dangerously: Reckless Journeys Through a Safe Universe. Her story in this issue won a 1974 Writer’s Digest short story contest, and was subsequently rejected by seventy-five editors.