Robert Archambeau edited Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias (Swallow, 1998). His long poem Citation Suite was published by Wild Honey Press in 1997. He is Director of Creative Writing at Lake Forest College, and has just returned from a year as visiting professor at Lund University, Sweden. Julianna Baggott's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous magazines including Poetry, The Southern Review, and Indiana Review. Her manuscript was a 1999 finalist in Breadloaf's first-book prize, and her novel, Girl Talk, is slated for publication by Simon and Schuster early 2001. Laton Carter is from Eugene, Oregon. His work has also appeared in Ploughshares. Jarda Cervenka was born in Prague. He immigrated to Minnesota three decades ago and has traveled and lived on three continents. His collection of stories Mal d' Afrique won the Minnesota Voices contest and the collection The Revenge of Underwater Man won the Richard Sullivan Prize for 2000. Susanne Davis has other recent work appearing in American Short Fiction and Descant. She has recently completed her second novel; her first novel won the Hemingway First Novel Competition. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons. Annie Finch's collection of poems, Eve, appeared in Spring 1997 from Story Line Press. She is also the author of a book on poetics, The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse (Michigan, 1993), and has edited two anthologies: A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (Story Line, 1994) and After New Formalism (forthcoming from Story Line). She coedited An Exaltation of Forms (forthcoming from Michigan). Finch's poems have also appeared in many journals including Paris Review, Hudson Review, Partisan Review, and Kenyon Review. She teaches on the creative writing faculty at Miami University in Ohio. Norman Finkelstein is the author of a volume of poems, Restless Messengers, and two books of literary criticism. He recently completed a study of Jewish-American poetry, parts of which have appeared in Contemporary Literature and Religion and Literature. He is Professor of English and Department Chair at Xavier University. James Finnegan lives in W. Hartford Connecticut. He works as an underwriter in the field of banking insurance. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, Southern Review and Willow Springs. Geoffrey Gardner's essays, poems and translations of poetry have appeared in many magazines. Tamarack has published a selection of his translations from the poetry of Jules Supervielle as The Horses of Time. At present he is finishing work on The Fable of the World, selected poems of Jules Supervielle in translation, and on his introduction to The Selected Poems of Paul Goodman, which he is editing for Black Sparrow. Robert E. Haywood teaches modern and contemporary art history at the University of Notre Dame and is a 1999-2000 Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History and the Humanities. His critical essays have appeared in Art History, Art in America, the anthology Critical Issues in American Art, and the exhibition catalogue Experiments in the Everyday. He is completing a book titled Interventions: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics in the United States (1958-1970). Kurt Heinzelman's recent publications include an article in the Stanford French Review, a review in Massachusetts Review, and poetry in Southwest Review. Janet Holmes is the author of The Green Tuxedo (University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), which received the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry and was named ForeWord Magazine's Poetry Book of the Year. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University. Teresa Iverson's poems and translations (from the poetry of German author Gottfried Benn) have appeared in Agni, Boston Review, Partisan Review, Delos, The New Criterion, Orion Magazine, in Katherine Washburne's anthology World Poetry and elsewhere. In 1995 she co-edited the anthology In Time: Women's Poetry from Prison. Anthony Libby teaches film and literature in the English Department of Ohio State University, and is currently Director of the Computers and Composition and Literature program. His The Secret Turning of the Earth was a winner in the Wick Chapbook Series, Kent State University Press. Robert McNamara's collection of poems, Second Messengers, was published by Wesleyan University Press. He teaches in the Interdisciplinary Writing Program at the University of Washington. Gerard Malanga's "On the Bridge" is the concluding cycle to a long poem titled "Bosnia and Herzegovina." His most recent book is Mythologies of the Heart (Black Sparrow Press) and the CD, Gerard Malanga Up from the Archives (Sub Rosa). His website is: www.gerardmalanga.com. Mary Ann Moran is Head of Cataloging at the St. Joseph County Public Library. She is an active member of South Bend Civic Theatre, behind the scenes as well as on stage. Her poems have appeared in Iowa Woman, No Exit, and Wordplay. Claes Oldenburg studied poetry, literature, and art as an undergraduate at Yale University. He is most widely known as one of the central artists who defined Pop art of the 1960s. In addition to his inventive writings, drawings, and sculptures, he was among the pioneering producers of visual theatre known as Happenings. Oldenburg's art is housed in almost every major modern art collection in the United States and in Europe. Since 1976, he has collaborated with Coosje van Bruggen on large scale sculptures which they design for specific sites. Over thirty of these projects, which they envision as sculpture on the scale of architecture, are located in parks, public squares, or on buildings in cities from California to Japan. John Peck has just published his Collected Shorter Poems: 1966-1996 with Carcanet Press. James S. Proffitt is a police officer in Reading, Ohio and editor of Great Midwestern Quarterly. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Potato Eyes, Poet Lore, NYQ, Yalobusha Review and elsewhere. Peter Robinson has published four books of poetry, the most recent being Lost and Found (Carcanet Press, 1997). A volume of his critical writings, In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets, appeared from OUP in 1992. With John Kerrigan, he has edited The Thing about Roy Fisher: Critical Studies (Liverpool University Press: 1999). CarolAnn Russell is a widely published poet who completed a new manuscript of poems while living in Italy and Australia last year.Ê She lives on lake Bemidji in northern Minnesota with her husband and their two sons, and two cats. Geoff Schmidt lives with his wife and daughters in LaSalle, Illinois. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama. He has recently had stories and poems published in or accepted by The Southern Review, Agni, The Massachusetts Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His long poem, "Minding the Darkness," will be published by New Directions in Fall 2000. It forms the concluding volume of his poetic trilogy Seculum. The two preceding volumes are Coming to Jakarta (1989) and Listening to the Candle (1992). Reginald Shepherd's third collection, Wrong, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this fall. His previous books are Some Are Drowning (1993 AWP Award) and Angel, Interrupted, both also published by Pittsburgh. Barry Silesky is author of the verse collection The New Tenants, and the volume of short-short fiction, One Thing That Can Save Us, as well as poems in Poetry, Boulevard, Witness, Grand Street, and many other magazines, including previous editions of the Notre Dame Review. He has also authored the biography of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and is at work on the biography of novelist John Gardner. His autobiography is in the Gale Research volume of Contemporary Authors' Biographies. D. James Smith, a student of Philip Levine's, is a recipient of an NEA fellowship for 1999. His work has appeared in: The Carolina Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry, Laurel Review, New Virginia Review, Nimrod, Poetry Canada Review and other journals. His first collection of poems, Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, was published by Ahsahta Press. A novel, Fast Company, is forthcoming from Dorling Kindersley. Corinna Vallianatos is from Alexandria, Virginia and has recently been living in Arizona. Ryan G. Van Cleave is a freelance photographer originally from Chicago whose work has appeared in recent issues of Oxford Magazine, Maryland Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and Poems & Plays; new work is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Quarterly West, Mid-American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. He is the editor of Sundog: The Southeast Review and also serves as coordinator for the annual "World's Best Short Short Story" competition. His first book, American Diaspora, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. Gordon Weaver teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of four novels and eight short story collections, the most recent of which is Four Decades: New and Selected Stories (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1997). "A Carted Whore" is from a work-in-progress. ,b>David Wojahn's most recent collection is The Falling Hour (University Pittsburgh Press, 1997). He teaches at Indiana University and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College. Martha Zweig's chapbook Powers won a statewide competition and was published by the Vermont Council on the Arts; Vinegar Bone, her full-length collection, is now available from Wesleyan University Press. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Black Warrior Review, Manoa, Northwest Review and others.