Selected Contributors:

Robert Coover is the award-winning author of fifteen books of fiction, including The Public Burning, Spanking the Maid, Briar Rose, and Pinocchio in Venice. He teaches electronic and experimental writing at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany’s most distinguished living poet, but also a political and social essayist and best-selling children’s author.

William Gass is the author of The Tunnel, Cartesian Sonata, a book of novella and most recently Reading Rilke. He is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Director of the International Writers Center at Washington University.

Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

John Hollander’s Reflections on Espionage recently appeared in a new edition for the first time in England. He teaches at Yale University.

Tama Janowitz’s sixth work of fiction A Certain Age is out this year (Bloomsbury). Her work has appeared in the UK and US in Harper’s, Elle, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times. Her fiction has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Sharon Olds is the author of The Sign of Saturn (Secker), The Father (Secker) and The Wellspring (Cape). Her latest book Blood, Tin, Straw (Cape) is out this year. She teaches at N.Y.U. and helps run the N.Y.U. workshop at a state hospital for the disabled.

Mary Jo Salter is the author of four books of poems, including A Kiss in Space (Knopf, 1999; Arc, 2000). She is co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

Charles Simic teaches American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire. Jackstraws, his new book of poems, was published in the spring by Harcourt Press and Selected Early Poems in the autumn of 1999.

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