Alison Armstrong is the author of The Joyce of Cooking (Station Hill Press) and "The Herne's Egg" by W.B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Unviersity Press). Her essays, short stories, poetry and reviews have appeared in diverse publications. She was a Founding Editor of A James Joyce Broadsheet, (U.K.), Fiction Editor at the Kenyon Review and a Contributing Editor to Irish Literary Supplement. She now lives in Greenwich Village. Mike Barrett, a poet, teaches at Moberly Area Community College in Missouri. Jill Peláez Baumgaertner is Professor of English at Wheaton College. Her collections of poetry include Leaving Eden (White Eagle Coffee Store), Namings (Franciscan University) and the forthcoming Uprooted (Chimney Hill). Ace Boggess of Huntington, West Virginia, has poems in Concho River Review, Baltimore Review, Chaminade Literary Review, and other journals. Peg Boyers is Executive Editor of Salmagundi. Poems from a book length series in the voice of Natalia Ginzburg have apppeared in Paris Review, Partisan Review, Southern Review, New England Review, The New Criterion and other magazines. 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 Revenge of Underwater Man won the Richard Sullivan Prize for 2000 (Notre Dame Press). His story "Salima" was a runner up in the Boston Review's international fiction contest. Nancy Donegan is a lecturer in English at Brown University. She has published one book of poetry, The Forked Rivers, with Alice James Press. Her poems have appeared in Tendril, Soundings/East, Writ and Willow Springs. Andrew Epstein's poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Verse, Raritan, Lungfull! , Ribot, and Combo. He is finishing his Ph.D. in English at Columbia University, where he has been teaching for several years, and is working on a study of individualism and friendship in twentieth- century American poetry. Reginald Gibbons' most recent book of poems is Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press, 1999). A paperback edition of his novel Sweetbitter was issued in 1996 by Penguin, and his translation of Euripides' Bacchae will be published by Oxford University Press. From 1981 to 1997 he was the editor of TriQuarterly magazine, at Northwestern University, where he is currently a professor of English. David Green, a graduate of Notre Dame, has taught at universities in Spain, China, and the United States. He currently teaches at Boston University and is the author of the novel Atchley. Robert Hahn is the author of No Messages, his second major collection of poetry (following All Clear, University of South Carolina, 1996), which is the 2000 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Award and will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in the fall. Other poems by Hahn have appeared recently or will appear in Paris Review, Yale Review, Partisan Review, Southwest Review, and Shenandoah. Glenna Holloway is a native Tennessean who now lives in Naperville, Illinois. She is a silversmith, lapidary and enamelist. Her poetry has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, America and many anthologies. Devin Johnston serves as poetry editor for Chicago Review, and has critical essays forthcoming in Contemporary Literature and Callaloo. His poems have appeared in Fence, New American Writing, The Germ, and elsewhere; his first volume of poems, Telepathy, is forthcoming from Paper Bark Press. Eduardo Kac's art is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. In 1999 he was awarded the ICC Biennale Award (Tokyo). R.M. Kinder is author of Sweet Angel Band, a short-fiction collection published by Helicon Nine. Her most recent work appears or will appear in Literal Latte, Other Voices, Southern Humanities Review, Descant (Ontario), Connecticut Review and elsewhere. She is executive editor of Pleiades at Central Missouri State University, where she also coordinates the creative writing program. Marilyn Krysl's latest book is How to Accommodate Men, Coffee House, 1998. Susan Grafeld Long's poetry has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Poet Lore, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and other publications. She lives with her family in Arlington, where she teaches English at Marymount University. George Looney's first book, Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh, won the 1995 Bluestem Award. His second book, Attendant Ghosts, will be published by Cleveland State University Press in the fall of 2000. He teaches creative writing at Penn State Erie, and serves as the translation editor for Mid- American Review. Malinda Markham's work has been published or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, Ohio Review, and others. Michael McCole is from Long Island and recently received an MA from Hollins College. This is his first published story. Michael B. McMahon teaches at Fresno Pacific University, a small Mennonite school in the San Joaquin Valley. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Seneca Review, Green Mountains Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, and Hiram Poetry Review. His translation of Jesus Serra's book of poems, Páramos en la Memoria, was published by the University of the Andes Press (Venezuela, 1994). James McMichael's most recent book is The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine. Christopher Merrill's most recent books are Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars (nonfiction) and the translation of Ales Debeljak's The City and the Child. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross. Carolyn Moran is an assistant professor of English at Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in San Jose Studies, Xanadu, Cotton Boll/Atlanta Review, Puerto del Sol, Voices International, South Florida Poetry Review, among other journals. She formerly taught at the University of Kansas, where she received a Helen and Jesse Jacobs Foundation Award for fiction and the Merrill and Edward M. Hopkins Awards for literary studies. J. Morris is a musician and writer living near Washington, D.C. He has published prose and poetry in many literary magazines in the U.S. and Great Britain, including The Southern Review, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, The Formalist, Pleiades, and Five Points. Simone Muench has work published in River Oak Review, Crab Orchard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Glimmer Train's Poetry Presentation, etc. She is the new poetry editor of ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and recently received an Illinois Arts Council Award. Paul Muldoon, who was born in Northern Ireland in 1951, is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Hay and The Annals of Chile, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1994. His New Selected Poems 1968-94 won the 1997 Irish Times Prize for Poetry. Paul Muldoon is Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Jere Odell lives in South Bend, Indiana. His poems have appeared in First Things, ACM, and Mudfish. Andrew Osborn will soon complete his English dissertation, "Admit Impediments: The Use of Difficulty in Late-20th-Century American Poetry," at the University of Texas, Austin. His reviews and poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, Iowa Review, Chicago Review, Poetry Project Newsletter, Colorado Review, and Fence. An interview with August Kleinzahler and article on Paul Muldoon's fuzzy rhyme are forthcoming in Verse and Contemporary Literature, respectively. Michael Perkins is a poet, novelist and critic whose work has appeared widely. He is the author of The Secret Record (William Morrow and Company) and five collections of poetry, including The Persistence of Desire and Gift of Choice. R.D. Skillings has just published his fourth book of stories, Where the Time Goes (Univerity Press of New England). He has been associated with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown since 1969. Ken Smith lives in London. He is the recipient of a Cholmondely Award and of a Lannan Award. His most recent book is Wild Root (Bloodaxe Books). Laura-Gray Street is a graduate of Hollins College (BA), the University of Virginia (MA) and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers (MFA). She teaches at Randolph- Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Recent poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review and The Louisville Review. Virgil Suarez was born in Cuba in 1962. He is the author of over twelve books of fiction, prose, and poetry. His most recent is a collection of poems titled In the Republic of Longing published by Arizona State University's Bilingual Review Press. He is at work on a new novel. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. Maria Terrone, the director of public relations for Hunter College of the City University of New York, has published in such magazines as Poetry, Poet Lore, Atlantic Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and Wind, which awarded her poem, "In Standard Time," the 1998 Allen Tate Memorial Poetry Prize. She has completed a full-length poetry manuscript, The Bodies We Were Loaned. 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's 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. Martin Walls was born in Brighton, England. A 1998 Winner of the "Discovery"/The Nation award, his work appears in The Nation, Ohio Review, Five Points, Boulevard, and The Gettysburg Review among others. His first book, Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust, will be published by New Issues Press in 2000. Henry Weinfield's new book of poems is entitled The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems (University of Notre Dame Press, 1999). He is the author of a translation of and commentary on Stéphane Mallarmé's Collected Poems (University of California Press, 1995) and of a critical study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History (Southern Illlinois UP, 1991). He teaches at the University of Notre Dame. Daniel Weissbort directed the University of Iowa Translation Workshop for twenty-five years. He has now returned to his native England where he continues to edit the magazine Modern Poetry In Translation which he founded with the late Ted Hughes in 1965. His most recent collection of poetry is What Was All The Fuss About? (Anvil Press). Terrence Winch is the author of The Great Indoors (Story Line, 1995), and Irish Musicians/American Friends (Coffee House, 1986), which received an American Book Award. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the 1997 Best American Poetry. He received an NEA poetry fellowship in 1992. Wayne Zade published, with Carolyn Perry, an interview with the essayist Scott Russell Sanders in the Winter 2000 issue of the Kenyon Review. He is currently working on a book of interviews of American jazz musicians on their experiences of playing and traveling in Japan.