Contributors' Notes

ETEL ADNAN is a poet, painter and essayist living in Pari s and in Sausalito, California. Her novel Sitt Marie Rose has been publis hed in six languages worldwide and is considered a classic of Middle Eastern lit erature. Her latest books in English are Paris When It's Naked and Of Cities and Women (both from Post-Apollo Press). RAE ARMANTROUT has published six books of poetry: Extremities (The Figures, 1978), The Invention of Hunger (Tuumba, 1979), Pr ecedence (Burning Deck, 1985), Necromance (Sun & Moon, 1991), Couverture (a selected in French translation, Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1991), and Made to Seem (Sun And Moon, 1995). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, including In The American Tree (National Poetry Foun dation), Language Poetries (New Directions), Postmodern American Poetr y: A Norton Anthology, From The Other Side Of The Century (Sun & Moon) a nd Out of Everywhere (Reality Street). Armantrout teaches at the Universi ty of California at San Diego. JOHN BEER is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Iowa City. MARVIN BELL was born in New York City, and wa s raised in Center Moriches on rural Long Island. His early studies included mus ic, photography, pottery and journalism. He has taught at Goddard College, and t he Universities of Hawaii, Iowa, and Washington. Of his thirteen published books (two written with William Stafford) his most recent are The Book of the Dead Man (poems) and A Marvin Bell Reader (poems, journals, memoirs, essa ys). He lives with his wife Dorothy in Iowa City and in Port Townsend, Washingto n. FRANK BIDART teaches at Wellesley Coll ege and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His In The Western Night: Collecte d Poems 1965-90 was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May of 1990. His other books include The Sacrifice (1983) and Golden Gate (1973 ). DAVID BROMIGE has taught at U.C. Ber keley and Sonoma State University; most recently he taught "wild Form" a t the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute. His most r ecent books include The Harbormaster of Hong Kong (Sun & Moon). He is the recipient of the 1988 Western States Book Award for his Selected Poems, Desire (Black Sparrow Press). DAVID CASE is the accompanist for the Gainesville (Florida) Gay Men's Chorus. His revi ew-essay on Bernard Dadié is forthcoming in The Journal of African Travel Wri ting. KILLARNEY CLARY's latest colle ction of poems is By Common Salt (Oberlin College Press, 1996). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and The Boston Review. She has taught at the University of California, Irvine and at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. INGRID DECLERCQ lives in Iowa City and is completing her B.A. at the University of Iowa. JOCELYN EMERSON is currently in the doctoral program in English at the University of Iowa where her work focuses on Renaissance poetry. JAMES G ALVIN is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa's I owa Writers' Workshop. He has published several collections of poetry, most rece ntly Lethal Frequencies (Copper Canyon, 1995). He is presently at work on a novel. C.S. GISCOMBE teaches English at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. His recent books are Here (Dalkey Archive, 1994) and Two Sections from Giscome Road (Leave Books ). He received a Fulbright last year which allowed him to spend several months i n northern British Columbia beginning work on a mixed-genre book about John Robe rt Giscome, the Jamaican miner and explorer who lived in Canada in the nineteent h century. HENRY GOULD edits Nedge, a literary journal. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alea, Apex of the M, LVNG, Poetic Briefs, Poetry New York , Happy Genius, and RIF/T. Recently he co-edited & published an anthology in honor of poet/translator Edwin Honig (A Glass of Green Tea - With Honig; distributed by Fordham University Press). JORIE GRAHAM is currently on the faculty of the Writers' Works hop at the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T . MacArthur Fellowship as well as the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the America n Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Her most recent collection Drea m of the Unified Field : Selected Poems was awarded the Pulitzer Priz e in poetry. LYN HEJINIAN is the author o f many books of poetry, most recently The Cold of Poetry (Sun & Moon) . She co-edits Poetics Journal with Barrett Watten, and is co-director of Xenos with Travis Ortiz. She teaches at The New College in San Francisco . BRENDA HILLMAN teaches poetry writing a t St. Mary's College in California. Her books include Death Tractates and Bright Existence, both from Wesleyan University Press. She has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry. She currently lives in Kensington, California with h er husband, poet Robert Hass. FANNY HOWE has published many books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent collection of p oems O'Clock was published by Reality Street Editions, London, but is ava ilable here. Her most recent novel was Saving History from Sun & Moo n Books which will also be publishing a new novel called Nod in the Fall of this year, and a trilogy of her fictions, Radical Innocence, consistin g of First Marriage, Bronte Wile, and Famous Questions, in 1997. She lives on the west coast and will be teaching at Mills College for one year. KEVIN KILLIAN's third novel, Lit tle Men, has recently been published by HardPress and his book on Jack Spice r is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He has had poems in recent issu es of Sulphur and Zyzzyva, and his play Stone Marmalade (co -written with Leslie Scalapino) is currently in production in San Francisco. TIMOTHY LIU's books of poems are Vox Ange lica (Alice James Books) and Burnt Offerings (Copper Canyon Press). H e lives in Iowa. JANE MILLER's new and se lected poems, Memory at These Speeds, will be published in the Fall of 19 96 by Copper Canyon Press. She has received a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Write r's Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She won the National Poetry Series O pen Competition in 1982 with The Greater Leisures and co-authored (with O lga Broumas) Black Holes, Black Stockings. Her collection of essays on po etry, culture, and travel, Working Time, was recently published by the U niversity of Michigan Press. She has taught at Goddard College, The University o f Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. MALENA MÖRLING studied Creative Writing at New Yo rk University and at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Her poems have been published in Ploughshares and New England Review. Her transla tions into Swedish of Philip Levine's poems have been published in the Swedish j ournal Artes. She has translated into English recent poems of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer that appeared in a new volume of his work published in t he fall of 1995 by Ecco Press. She is currently translating Levine's Selected Poems. FRED MURATORI's two poetry c ollections are Despite Repeated Warnings (BASFAL Books), and The Possi ble (State Street Press). His poems and reviews have appeared in Best Ame rican Poetry 1994, ACM, Talisman, American Book Review, New England Review and elsewhere. BOB PERELMAN has written nine books of poetry, most recently Virtual Reali ty (Roof, 1993); two critical books, The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pou nd, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (California, 1994); and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton, 1996). He is A ssociate Professor of English and Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the U niversity of Pennsylvania and has recently taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop. A collection of the "Fake Dreams" will soon be available in Abacas, a series edited by Peter Ganick. BIN RAMKE is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Series for the University of Geor gia Press, and of the Denver Quarterly. His fifth book of poems, Massa cre of the Innocents, was published by the University of Iowa Press last yea r. He teaches at the University of Denver. TIM SEIBLES is the author of three books of poetry, Body Moves (Coron a Press, 1988), Hurdy Gurdy (Cleveland State, 1992) and Kerosene ( Ampersand Press, 1995). He has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine A rts Work Center and the NEA, and recently won an Open Voice Award from the Natio nal Writers' Voice Project. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Artful Dodge and an anthology called In Search of Color Everywhere. He is currently on the creative writing faculty at Old Dominion University. SPENCER SELBY's most recent books are Malleable Cast (Generator, 1995) and No Island (Drogue Press, 1995). His poetry has appeared in magazines around the world, including Sulfur, Stride, Ramraid Extraordinaire and fragmente. He is the creator of The List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines, a non-copyrighted, freely circulating document that tracks over 250 publications worldwide. MARK STRAND is the former Poet Laureate of the United States. His recent books of poetry include Dark Harbor and The Continuous Life, both from Knopf. He is a recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and of the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award. JAMES TATE won the 1995 Tanning Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His Selected Poems received the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and his collection Worshipful Company of Fletchers won the 1994 National Book Award. He is on the permanent faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER is one of Sweden's most distinguished poets. His work has been translated into thirty languages, including Dutch, Hungarian and English. He lives in Vasteras, some forty miles west of Stockholm with his wife Monica.

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