Iron
Horse Literary Review
Contributors: Fall
1999
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Fiction
Tina Egnoski, “Midway”
Biographical
Note
Tina
Egnoski has published fiction and poetry in a number of literary journals,
including Cimarron Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Fish
Stories, The Laurel Review, and in the anthologies Life on the
Line and The Luxury of Tears.
She has received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on
the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts.
In 1997, she earned her MFA from Emerson College.
She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Kent
Nelson, “This Light Mending” (Part One)
Biographical
Note
Kent
Nelson has published three novels and four collections of short fiction,
together with over 90 short stories in America’s best literary magazines.
His novel, Language in the Blood, won the Edward Abbey Prize
for Ecofiction, and many of his stories have been included in Best
American Short Stories, Pushcart, O. Henry, and other
anthologies. Among his awards
are two NEA grants, five PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, a Nelson Algren
Prize, and a fellowship to the Writers’ Film Project in Los Angeles.
He is an avid birder and has traveled to enough remote places in
North America to accumulate a life-bird list of 707 species.
Melissa Pritchard, “The Case of the Disappearing
Ingenue”
Biographical
Note
Melissa
Pritchard has published a novel, Phoenix, and two collections of
short stories, Spirit Seizures and The Instinct for Bliss.
She teaches creative writing and women’s studies at Arizona State
University.
Gordon Weaver, “Viewed from Lanta & Wally’s”
Biographical
Note
Gordon Weaver is the author of four novels and eight story
collections, the most recent of which is Four Decades: New and Selected
Stories (University of Missouri Press, 1997).
More than a hundred of his stories have appeared in literary
magazines, including recent publications in AGNI, Notre Dame
Review, Crosscurrents, Tampa Review, and Crab Orchard
Review. His story
"Viewed from Lanta & Wally’s," is one story from his
collection, Long Odds, to be released by University of Missouri Press
in Fall 2000.
Poetry
Kelly Cherry, “Country Matters” and “Art and
Life”
Biographical
Note
Kelly
Cherry is the author of several poetry collections, including Lovers and
Agnostics and God’s Loud Hand.
She has also published several works of fiction, including Augusta
Played and The Society of Friends (her latest collection of short
fiction). She has received a
NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize among other awards, and she teaches at
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Robert Cording, “Aubade,”
“Hillside Scene,” “The Artist of Pontito” and “Angels”
Biographical Note
Robert
Cording has published three books of poems:
Heavy Grace (Alice James, 1997), What Binds Us To This
World (Copper Beech, 1991), and Life-List, which won the 1987
Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry.
New poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in Poetry,
Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and Ontario
Review. He is a Professor
of English at College of the Holy Cross.
Barbara F. Lefcowitz, “For
Gloria”
Biographical
Note
Barbara
F. Lefcowitz has published six books of poetry, a novel, and individual
poems, stories, and essays in over 350 journals.
She has won writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Maryland Arts Council, among
others. Also a visual artist,
she lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Her
most recent book is a poetry collection called A Hand of Stars,
published by Dancing Moon Press in Oregon.
Sydney Lea, “Pursuit of a
Wound” and “Girls in Their Upstairs Windows”
Biographical Note
Sydney
Lea is author of six collections of poems;
a seventh, Pursuit of a Wound, is forthcoming in the fall of
2000. His prior collection, To
The Bone: New and Selected
Poems, was awarded the 1998 Poets’ Prize.
Lea has also published a novel, A Place in Mind, and a
collection of naturalist essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home.
Lea founded and, for thirteen years, edited New England Review.
A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and
Fulbright Foundations, Lea has taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Middlebury,
Wesleyan, and the National University of Hungary in Budapest.
He is currently on the faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at
Vermont College.
Ronald McFarland, “After the Fact” and “April in
Indian Country”
Biographical
Note
Ronald
McFarland teaches 17th century and modern poetry, contemporary Northwest
writers, Hemingway seminars, and creative writing (poetry, fiction,
nonfiction) at the University of Idaho, where he is Director of Creative
Writing. He also serves as
faculty advisor for the literary magazine, Fugue.
His most recent book of poems, The Haunting Familiarity of Things,
was published in 1993 by Singular Speech Press.
His new and selected poems, Stranger in Town, will be
published in Fall 2000 or Spring 2001 by Confluence Press.
Robert Phillips, “Sex” and “Two for Amy Jones”
Biographical
Note
Robert
Phillips is former Director of the Creative Writing Program and John and
Rebecca Moore Professor at the University of Houston. Both fiction writer and poet, he is preparing his sixth
collection of poems, Spinach Days, for publication by Johns Hopkins
University Press in Spring 2000. His
fifth collection, Breakdown Lane, has just gone into a second
printing with Johns Hopkins. His
prizes include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts
& Letters.
Geri Radacsi, “Arrival” and “Heart Trouble”
Biographical
Note
Geri
Radacsi has worked as a journalist, English teacher and corporate
communication specialist. Currently,
she is on the staff at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.
Her publishing credits include The Atlanta Review, ELF,
Embers, Comstock Review, Connecticut Review, Connecticut
River Review, The MacGuffin, Santa Barbara Review, Southern
Humanities Review, Plainsongs, Fugue, and The Sycamore
Review. She has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Carolyne Wright, “La Push” and “Harumi”
Biographical
Note
Carolyne
Wright is currently Visiting Associate Professor in the Creative Writing
Program at Oklahoma State University. She
grew up in Seattle and spent a year in Chile on a Fulbright-Hayes Study
Grant during the ill-fated presidency of Salvador Allende.
The poems appearing here are included in her collection, Seasons
of Mangoes and Brainfire, which won the 1999 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize
(selected by Yusef Komunyakaa), and will be published by Lynx House Press in
spring 2000. She recently
returned to Chile for the first time since the Allende years.
Essays
Karol Griffin, “The Truth about Bonnie and Clyde”
Biographical
Note
Karol
Griffin was recently awarded the Wyoming Arts Council 2000 Frank Nelson
Doubleday Award, an annual grant "to honor a woman writer of
exceptional talent in any genre."
Her writing has been published in Owen Wister Review, Vietnam
Generation, Journal of Advertising, and Vista:
New Perspectives on the West.
Two pieces from Tattoed on the Underside of the American Dream
(a completed memoir in which "The Truth about Bonnie and Clyde"
appears) have been anthologized in a forthcoming collection, and her
screenplay, Crank, has been optioned by an award-winning independent
film director.
Mark Wilson, “The Mammoth Rests”
Biographical
Note
Mark
Wilson lives in North Carolina. He
spends his time reading, writing, and fishing.
Interview
David Wagoner, “Three
Poems by David Wagoner”
Biographical
Note
David
Wagoner teaches in the Department of English at the University of
Washington. During his tenure
there, he co-founded Poetry Northwest, for which he still serves as
Editor. He has published
numerous collections of poetry, including Staying Alive, In Broken
Country, Walt Whitman Bathing, and his newest release, Traveling
Light: Collected and New Poems.
He has also published several novels, including The Man in the
Middle, The Escape Artist, and The Road to Many a Wonder.
Photography
John Hodges, “The
Sexual Life of Rednecks in Woodville, Florida”
Biographical
Note
John
Hodges has published photographs and fiction in various journals, including Mississippi
Mud, Apalachee Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, and Southern
Squares. He currently
attends Florida State University as a graduate student in creative writing.
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