Contributors

Ally Acker lives in McLean, Virginia. Her first collection of poems, Surviving Desire, was published by Garden St. Press. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and the American Voice.

Stephen J. Lyons has work forthcoming in Manoa and Witness and a collection of poems and essays about his daughter and the Western landscape due out in 1996 from Washington State University Press. He lives in Pullman, Washington.

Rafe Martin is a writer whose books include The Boy Who Lived with the Seals (Putnam) and One Hand Clapping (Rizzoli). He lives in Rochester, New York.

Susan J. Miller lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. She is writing a memoir to be published by Henry Holt and Co.

William Penrod says he really isn’t very interesting, but he has become adept at faking it. He lives in Hammond, Indiana.

David Romtvedt is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Buffalo, Wyoming. His new book of poems, Certainty, is forthcoming from White Pine Press.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Bruce Shapiro is an associate editor for the Nation. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Kathleen C. Smith is a recent graduate of the Cleveland State University writing program, where she was encouraged to call herself a writer. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.