| Neil Baldwin is the author
of biographies of William Carlos Williams, Man Ray, and Thomas Edison.
His most recent book, Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass-Production
of Hate (Public Affairs, New York), was a finalist for the 2002 National
Jewish Book Award in history. |
| Mark Bauerlein teaches
English at Emory University. His most recent book is Negrophobia: A
Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. |
| John Bensko’s books
include Green Soldiers (Yale University Press), a winner of the
Yale Younger Poets Prize, and most recently The Iron City (University
of Illinois Press). His story collection, Sea Dogs, is forthcoming
from Graywolf Press. He teaches at the University of Memphis. |
Eric Bentley is author
of plays, screenplays, translations (notably of Brecht and Pirandello),
and criticism and history, including The Playwright as Thinker,
What
Is Theatre? The Life of the Drama, Theatre of War: Modern
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, Thinking About the Playwright: Comments
from Four Decades, The Brecht Memoir, Commitments, Rallying
Cries: Three Plays, A Man’s a Man, and Pirandello’s
Major Plays. |
| Paula Marantz Cohen is
author of several books, including Silent Film and the Triumph of the
American Myth (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her first novel, Jane
Austen in Boca, was recently published by St. Martins. She is Distinguished
Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. |
| Henri Cole is the author
of five collections of poems, most recently Middle Earth (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux). He is Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at
Smith College. |
| Robyn Creswell lives in
Santiago, Chile. His articles on poetry have recently appeared in Raritan. |
| Irving Feldman’s books
include New and Selected Poems, All of Us Here, The Life
and Letters, and Beautiful False Things. In 1992 he was named
a MacArthur Fellow. He teaches English at the State University of New
York at Buffalo. |
| David Galef is author of
nine books, most recently the short story collection Laugh Track.
He is professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he
also administers the MFA program in creative writing. |
| Patrick Giles writes about
the arts, politics, religion, and baseball for The Los Angeles Times,
The Village Voice, Commonweal, Opera News, and other
venues, including Interview, where he is associate editor. He lives
in New York City. |
| Rachel Hadas was recently
a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public
Library. Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams appeared in the University
of Michigan Poets on Poetry series in 2000. |
| Joseph Harrison teaches
poetry in the Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University.
His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998, The
Antioch Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first
book, Someone Else’s Name, with an introduction by Anthony
Hecht, is forthcoming from Waywiser Press in the U.K. and Zoo Press in
the U.S. |
| John Hennessy has new work
forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, Ontario Review, 5AM,
Notre Dame Review, and Pleiades. His manuscript Bridges
and Tunnels has been a finalist or semi-finalist in several competitions,
including the Morse Prize at Northeastern University Press and the Nicholas
Roerich Prize at Story Line Press. |
| Thomas L. Jefferes teaches
English at Marquette University. Previously he has taught at Cornell,
been a Mellon Fellow at Harvard, and written Samuel Butler Revalued,
a study of the Victorian writer. Recent essays have been about D. H. Lawrence. |
| Edmund Keeley is Straut
Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University. His most recent
books are Investing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1933–47 (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux), which was awarded the 2000 Criticos Prize, and a novel,
Some Wine for Remembrance (White Pine Press). |
| Susan Kinsolving’s
book Dailies & Rushes was a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award. She has taught at the University of Connecticut
and California Institute of the Arts. As a lyricist, she has been commissioned
by Glimmerglass Opera for a cantata. |
| David Lehman is the author
of five books of poetry, including most recently The Evening Sun
(Scribner, 2002). He has edited Great American Prose Poems: From Poe
to the Present, a just-released anthology, and is the series editor
of The Best American Poetry. |
| Patrick McCaughey was director
of the National Gallery of Victoria, held the visiting chair in Australian
studies at Harvard, and was director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford,
Connecticut, 1988–1996 and of the Yale Center for British Art 1996–2001.
Currently he is a senior research fellow of the Center. |
| N. Graham Nesmith, a Kluge
Mentor and doctoral candidate in theater at Columbia University, has published
articles on theater in The Drama Review, African American Review,
American Theatre, The Dramatist, The New York Times,
and other publications. |
| Joyce Carol Oates is author
of many novels – including Blond, Man Crazy, What
I Lived For (a finalist for the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer
Prize), and My Heart Laid Bare – and collections of stories,
poetry, and plays. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities
at Princeton University. |
| Steve Orlen’s book
This Particular Eternity appeared in 2001 from Ausable Press. He
is currently a visiting professor in the creative writing program at the
University of Houston. |
| Julie Orringer’s stories
have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The
Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Best New American Voices 2001;
and are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize XXVII, New Stories
from the South: The Year’s Best, and Zoetrope. She teaches
creative writing at Stanford University. Her collection How to Breathe
Underwater is about to be published by Knopf. |
| Julie Sheehan’s first
book, Thaw, won the Poets Out Loud prize and was published by Fordham
University Press in 2000. New poems are forthcoming in The Paris Review
and Prairie Schooner, among others. She now lives in Springs, Long
Island. |
| David Shield’s Black
Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Enough About You was published by Simon and Schuster last year.
He teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle. |
| Tom Sleigh is author of
several collections of poetry, including The Chain, a finalist
for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and The Dreamhouse (University
of Chicago Press). His translation of Euripides’ Return of Heracles
was published by Oxford University Press. |
| Terry Teachout is the music
critic of Commentary and the drama critic of The Wall Street
Journal. He also writes about the arts for The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The National Review, and other publications.
His books include The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken and City
Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy. |
| Mark Wunderlich is author
of The Anchorage, which received the 1999 Lambda Literary Award.
New poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Paris Review,
Boston Review, Fence, and Slate. He lives in Provincetown,
Massachusetts. |
