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IT < < o 196 I heard the car door slam and could see Heidi moving toward the front steps, Mrs. Stevenson hanging on to the passenger door as if she were about to fall down. Heidi stopped when she saw that our ghosts had been ripped from the ground and piled at the head of the driveway near the trash. The carved-out pumpkin lay next to the ghosts. Two men sat in an olive green military sedan, having yet to drive away from the scene. "David!" She screamed my name, angry and afraid. "David!" I stood up in the living room, buried there, it seemed, and the front door was just opening. I started for the doorway, am still rushing there years later, though our mother always arrives first, looming above the front steps. If I could alter that moment when Heidi looked up at her drained, white face, blue eyeliner running down both cheeks, then I still believe we could have the lives we dreamed of on those long beaches, our hands, half the size they are now, sifting through the sand for shells. My mother's two white hands stood in the air, reaching out, and strands of hair stuck to a chin that moved up and down as if she were speaking. But no one was speaking for miles around. There was nothing that could be said. CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES NIN ANDREWS wrote The Book of Orgasms (Asylum, 1995). Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Michigan Quarterly. ALISON BECHDEL has been creating Dykes to Watch Out For since 1983 and has published six collections from Firebrand Books. Her work is syndicated in fifty publications, including The Boston Phoenix and The Funny Times. LINDA BIERDS is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Ghost Trio. She has been awarded fellowships from the Ingram Merrill foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She lives in Seattle. JASON BROWN is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner fellowship. His fiction has appeared in The Mississippi Review and is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories. SCOTT CAIRNS was born in Tacoma, Washington. His collections of poetry include The Translations of Babel and The Theology of Doubt. ELIZABETH GRAVER'S short story collection, Have You Seen Me? (Ecco, 1993), was awarded the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have been anthologized in Prize Stories:The O. Henry Awards and in Best American Short Stories. She teaches creative writing at Boston College. BETH GYLYS teaches at the University of Cincinatti where she is a doctoral candidate. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Poetry East and others. MARIE HOWE'S first book of poetry, The GoodTliief was awarded the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. Her poems in this issue are from her forthcoming book, What the Living Do. SHEILA KOHLER is the author of two novels, The Perfect Place and The House on R. Street, and a collection of stories, Memories in America. Her work has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. NATALIE KUSZ is the author of a memoir, Road Song, and the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Pushcart Prize, and others. She teaches at Harvard University.
UI o z 10co o u 198 DAVID LEHMAN'S new book of poems is Valentine Place, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. He is on the core faculty of the Bennington College graduate writing program, and teaches at Columbia University and The New School. GWYNETH LEWIS writes in both Welsh and English. She has two collections of poetry, Sonedau Redsa, and Parables and Faxes. WILLIAM LOGAN has published a collection of poems, Vain Empires. A collection of essays and reviews, Reputations of the Tongue, is forthcoming. ELIZABETH MACKLIN has published one collection of poetry, A Woman Kneeling in the Big City. MICHAEL MANLEY works as a writer and editor in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has published book reviews in Sycamore Review and Literary Magazine Review and has fiction forthcoming in The Long Story. JAN MEISSNER'S work has appeared in Fiction, The Quarterly, Story and other magazines. She lives in New York City and is at work on a novel. MICHELLE MITCHELL-FOUST'S work is forthcoming from or has appeared in The Nation and The Antioch Review. She received the Discovery/ Tlic Nation Award for 1996. She lives in California. JEAN MONAHAN received her MFA from Columbia in 1987. Her book, Hands, was chosen by Donald Hall for the 1991 Anhinga Prize. LESLEA NEWMAN is the author of two collections of poetry, Love Me Like You Mean It and Sweet Dark Places as well as numerous other books. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Poetry. CHARLES NORTH'S New and Selected Poems will be published this year by Sun and Moon Press. TOM PERROTTA is the author of Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies. A novel is forthcoming from Berkeley. JAMES REISS, the author of two collections of poetry, The Breathers and Express, is Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and editor of the Miami University Press. KAY RYAN is the author of Strangely Marked Metal and Flamingo Watching, which was a finalist for the 1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Poets and the Nation. LAURIE SHECK was born in New York City. She is the author of three books of poetry: Amaranth, lo at Night, and The Willow Grove. LESLIE STERNBERGH'S work appears in Mad magazine, the Twisted Sisters collections (Kitchen Sink Press), and Juxtapose. SAMN STOCKWELL'S collection of poetry, Theatre of Animals, was selected by Louise Gluck as one of five volumes published in 1995 in the National Poetry Series. She lives in Vermont. TERESE SVOBODA is the author of the award-winning novel Cannibal, as well as four collections of poetry: Mere Mortals, Laughing Africa, Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth, and All Aberration. DANIEL TOBIN'S manuscript, Where the World is Made, was a finalist for three awards. He received the Discovery/ The Nation Award for 1995. SUSAN WHEELER'S collection, Bag 0'Diamonds was selected by James Tate for the Norma Farber First Book Award and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. NANCE VAN WINCKEL'S second collection of poems, The Dirt, came out in 1994. A second book of short stoires, Quake, will be published in 1997.
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