Ontario Review

Volume 39 Fall/Winter 1993–94 Article 20

July 2014 Contributors, Advertisements

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Pinckney Benedict of Lewisburg, West Virginia, is the recipient of the 1986 Nelson Algren Award. He has published two collections of short fiction, Town Smokes (OR Press, 1987) and The Wrecking Yard (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1992). His first novel, Dogs of God (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday), is scheduled for publication in January 1994 Hayden Carruth has published 28 books, chiefly poetry but including also a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. His most recent books are Suicides andjazzers (1992) and The Collected Shorter Poems, 1946- 91 (1992), the latter winning this year's National Book Critics Circle Award Nicholas Christopher has published four books of poems, most recendy In the Year of the Comet (Viking Penguin, 1992). Viking will bring out his fifth book, 5° and Other Poems in 1994. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 1993-94, he lives in New York City Cathy N. Davidson's three previously published books include The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters. "Night Moves" is from a new book, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, which will be released by Dutton in October. She is a professor of English at Duke University Annie Dillard's most recent book is her novel The Living (HarperCollins, 1992). Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts Denise Duhamel of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has poems in current issues of The Harvard Review and Westbranch, and her work will be represented in Best American Poetry 1993.... Eamon Grennan's most recent book of poems, As If It Matters, appeared from Greywolf in 1992. A former OR contributor, he teaches at Vassar College Daniel Halpern is the author of seven collections, most recently Foreign Neon (Knopf, 1991) and Tango (Viking Penguin, 1987). He has edited numerous volumes, including The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. Knopf will release his Selected Poems in April 1994. Publisher of the Ecco Press and Antaeus, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey —Jana Harris has published several books of poetry, including The Sourlands (OR Press, 1989), and a novel Alaska (1980). OR Press will be bringing out Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? in November. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she lives with her husband in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains where they raise horses William Heyen, a frequent OR contributor, published Ribbons: The Gulf War last year. The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 will appear next spring from Time Being Books. He teaches at SUNY Brockport Gray

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Jacobik has new poems in the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, and Wisconsin Review. A recipient this year of an NEA Fellowship, she teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University Greg Johnson's most recent books are Pagan Babies, a. novel (Dutton, 1993), and Aid and Comfort, poems (Univ. Press of Florida, 1993). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia Joyce Carol Oates's new novel is Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (William Abrahams/Dutton, 1993). Her play The Perfectionist will open the McCarter Theatre 1993-94 season in October. The Rehearsal had its premier performance in the spring at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Manhattan Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Green Age (Pittsburgh, 1989). Her Feminist Revision and the Bible was published earlier this year in the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory series by Blackwell. A contributing editor to OR, she teaches at Rutgers University John R. Reed has published two books of poetry, as well as several scholarly books. His poems and short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals. A contributing editor to OR, he is a Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit Constance Urdang is the author of a number of books, including Alternative Lives, poems (Pittsburgh), and The Woman Who Reads Novels and Peacetime, novellas (Coffee House Press). She lives in St. Louis.

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