Winter 2006
New Series · Volume XXVIII Number 1

Contents · Contributors · Selections · Editor's Notes & Cover Art

 

contributors
  MEENA ALExANdER is author of the memoir Fault Lines (1993/2003) and of the volumes of poetry Illiterate Heart (2002) and Raw Silk (2004) and editor of Indian Love Poems (Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2005). She is currently working on a new volume of poems and a volume of essays on poetry, migration, and memory. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
  SARAH ARVIO’s second book of poems, Sono, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in January 2006. For her first book, Visits from the Seventh (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), she was awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2003-2004, and, in 2005, a Guggenheim Fellowship. Arvio works as a translator for the United Nations.
  MYLES AXTON is the editor of Nature Genetics. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Balliol College. He obtained his degree in genetics at Cambridge, doctorate at Imperial College, and did postdoctoral research at Dundee and at MIT’s Whitehead Institute.
  BETH BACHMANN’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Antioch Review, Image, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She holds a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
  ELLEN BASS’s most recent volume of poetry, Mules of Love (BOA, 2002), won the Lambda Literary Award. Among her other awards are a Pushcart Prize, the Larry Levis Prize, and the Pablo Neruda Prize.
  BRUCE BEASLEY’s latest books are Lord Brain (University of Georgia Press) and Signs and Abominations (Wesleyan University Press). He teaches at Western Washington University.
  NICKY BEER is a Ph.D. student in the creative writing program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her poetry has been published in Columbia, New Orleans Review, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere.
  CLARE M. DUNSFORD, Ph.D., is an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. She has been an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University and Boston College, teaching courses in writing, poetry, literature and censorship, and literature and illness. She is currently writing a book entitled Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene that Binds Them, a memoir about her experience as a mother of a boy with Fragile X syndrome.
  ROBIN EKISS is a former Stegner Fellow, and has received grants, scholarships, and a residency from the Barbara Deming Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has appeared in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.
  ALBERT GOLDBARTH’s newest collection of poetry is Budget Travel through Space and Time (Graywolf Press, 2005), which includes sixteen pages of earlier Kenyon Review appearances. He has twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award and lives in Wichita, Kansas.
  MARGOT GREENLEE is a performer with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, a multi-generational collaborative dance company based in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Kenyon College in 1989, she writes primarily for the stage and is currently finishing her first novel.
    EMMA HANSEN has attended the Young Vermont Writers’ Conference for the last three years and received a scholarship for the last year. She enjoys foreign films and classic black-and-white movies. She finds most of her inspiration for writing from five years of living in Hawaii and from recent political events.
  HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS’s most recent book of poetry is Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan, 2003), which won the Alan Collins Poetry Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and her fiction has appeared in Brilliant Corners, Indiana Review, and New England Review. She teaches at the University of Oklahoma.
  SHERI JOSEPH is the author of Bear Me Safely Over (Grove / Atlantic, 2002), a cycle of stories. “Radiant Health” is excerpted from her novel A House in Edgewood. She lives in Atlanta and teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University.
    AMRITA S. KHALID was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was raised in Canton, Texas, and is attending boarding school in Southern California while working on a novel.
  JOHN KOETHE’s poem “The Unlasting” is from his book Sally’s Hair, to be published by HarperCollins in April of 2006. His most recent book, North Point North: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received the Kingsley Tufts Award and is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  RUTH MAXEY is currently completing a doctorate in South Asian diaspora writing at University College, London. She has recently published “ ‘The East is Where Things Begin’: Writing the Ancestral Homeland in Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston,” Orbis Literarum 60.1 (Feb. 2005): 1-15.
  IAN McEWAN’s latest novel, Saturday, is a national best-seller and will be published in paperback this spring. He is the author of nine other novels including Atonement, Enduring Love, Black Dogs, the Booker Award–winning Amsterdam, and two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets.
  ANNA GEORGE MEEK received the 2002 Brittingham Prize for her first book, Acts of Contortion. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, and many others. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and has also been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Currently, she works as an instructor at the Loft Literary Center, as well as a professional violinist in Minneapolis.
  LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER’s fifth collection of poems, The Resurrection Trade, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2007. Her previous collections include Eat Quite Everything You See, Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up for Love. Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Miller holds an M.F.A. from Iowa Writers Workshop and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
  ERLING NORRBY is a scientist and educator in virology. Professor and chairman and for six years dean of the medical faculty of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, he was the permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences until retirement. Over decades he has been involved in the selection process for Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry.
  D. NURKSE is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Burnt Island (Knopf, 2005). He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
  CHAD PARMENTER received his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His work has appeared in New Delta Review, Literary Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
    C. R. RESETARITS’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and has been supported in part by funding grants from the Illinois Arts Council. New poetry is being published in Dalhousie Review, an essay on Gore Vidal and Henry James in Gender Studies, and an odd southern story in Main Street Rag. She currently lives in Southampton, England.
  JOHN RODDEN is the author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation (1989, 2002), Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell (2003), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (2005), among other works.
  EVE STOCKTON received degrees in architecture and fine arts from Princeton and Yale. A registered architect, she has worked for Cesar Pelli and Associates in New Haven and Davis Brody and Associates in Manhattan. Her artwork has been shown in the Art of the Northeast Juried Exhibition for four years, earning awards in two of those years. Stockton’s work has also been exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Westport Arts Center, Silvermine Guild Galleries, UCONN-Stamford Art Gallery, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, and at The Gallery at Fox & Fowle, Architects, New York City. Since moving to Connecticut in 1994, she has been instrumental in designing yearly large-scale art projects for the Weston school system, including the one-hundred-foot stone sundial. Stockton’s artwork can be viewed online at www.evestockton.com. She lives in Weston with her husband and two daughters.
  JUDITH STRASSER is the author of a memoir, Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), and of Sand Island Succession: Poems of the Apostles (Parallel Press, 2002). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Witness, 5 AM, and many other journals.
  SARAH WINSBERG is a junior at Brighton High School. She has had two poems published in her school's literary magazine, Galaxy. She is currently an editor for Galaxy.
 

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