Contributors
May 1999
Writers
Deborah Y. Abramson lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and is enrolled in the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. Her work has appeared in the Boston Phoenix and Metropolis.
moreJessica Anya Blau lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she stays home and cares for her two daughters. She recently finished a novel and a screenplay, and is in search of a buyer for both.
moreRichard Klein is a professor of French at Cornell University and the author of Cigarettes Are Sublime (Duke University Press).
moreStephen J. Lyons lives in Pullman, Washington. He recently received a letter informing him that he is a finalist in the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. If he wins, he plans to continue working, but with a different attitude.
moreLee Rossi is a poet living in Los Angeles. He is developing an on-line service called Screensaver of the Month, which will offer quotations chosen to perplex and offend supervisors and colleagues.
moreMark Smith-Soto is a poet and teacher living in Greensboro, North Carolina.
moreLinda Moore Spencer’s story in this issue “makes an even hundred works published — but who’s counting?” She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is currently working on a collection of short stories.
moreGene Zeiger lives beside a six-hundred-acre bird sanctuary in western Massachusetts with her husband, Bill, and thirty-two houseplants.
moreOn The Cover
While she’s without a darkroom, Robyn McDaniels has been writing every day and experimenting with her photographs on the computer. She lives in Moorhead, Minnesota.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Business Manager
Ilona Page
Assistant Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Julie Burke
Copy Editor
Seth Mirsky
Editorial Office Assistant
Rachel J. Elliott
Administrative Assistant
Erica Berkeley
Readers
Colleen Donfield
Douglas Gibson
Gillian Kendall
Jessica Ruegg
Proofreader
Lynda Malone
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