Issue 22 - 1992

Coe Review • Issue 22
a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy award, a
National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the Rea award
for the Short Story. He has taught at Bard College, the
University of Iowa, Columbia University, Princeton
University, Virginia Military Institute, and Brandeis
University. Since 1981, Mr. Coover has been the writer-inresidence
at Brown University, where he currently teaches
hypertext fictions in the English Department Intermedia
Project.
Nancy Sweet is currently in her senior year at Coe College. Nancy is
graduating with a B.A. in English, with an emphasis on
student teaching. She lives in Cedar Rapids with her fiveyear-old
daughter, Danielle.
Matt Osing is a non traditional student earning his B.A. in English at
Coe College. When not studying Chaucer, Mr. Osing
rehabilitates autistic children and uses any spare time he
has to feed his singsong into his 30 lb. Olivetti. He resides
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
William T. Vollmann is the author of three novels, You Bright and
Risen Angels, The Ice Shirt, and Whores for Gloria, as well
as a collection of short stories, The Rainbow Stories. Mr.
Vollmann was born in Los Angeles in 1959. He graduated
summa cum laude from Cornell University, where he
studied comparative literature. For several years Mr.
Vollmann lived in San Francisco, where he closely studied
the habits of persons in the sexual services trade. You
Bright and Risen Angels, his first novel, was hailed by the
New York Times Book Review as “the ingenious creation of
a unique universe whose bizarre characters and events
illuminate our own.” In 1988 he won a Whiting Foundation
Writer’s Award, as well as the Shiva Naipaul Memorial
Prize for The Rainbow Stories, the collection from which
The Blue Wallet was taken. The Rainbow Stories will be
available in paperback in July of 1992, published by
Penguin Books. Also keep your eyes open for Fathers and
Crows, (July 1992, Viking) a novel, and Thirteen Stories
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