MR-WEB Volume 1 Number 9, December 1995

Contributors

Tom Drury is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker.

Terry Engel was a winner in the Hemingway Prize Competition and received an Honorable Mention from Pushcart. He comes from Tupelo, Mississippi.

Dennis Hathaway's stories have appeared in Southwest Review, The Georgia Review and TriQuarterly, among other magazines. His collection of stories, The Consequences of Desire, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is a partner in a construction company in Los Angeles and has taught fiction in the extension program at UCLA.

Doug Lawson recently received the Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation for a manuscript that contained "Escape." He earned his MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia as a Henry Hoyns Fellow and his fiction has appeared in the Sycamore Review, the Willow Review, and in other places both online and off. He is currently at work on a novel, edits The Blue Penny Quarterly and Virginia Online Magazine, and he, his new wife Giselle, and their new greyhound Gus all live in Charlottesville, Virginia. His email address is DougL@www.comet.chv.va.us.

Ian McEwan's novels include The Cement Garden, The Child in Time, The Comfort of Strangers, and Black Dogs, which was nominated for the 1992 Booker Prize.

Ron Nyren is editor of Furious Fictions: The Magazine of Short-Short Fiction. He lives in San Francisco.

Brian Oberkirch grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, and took an M.A. from the University of South Alabama. He is living with his wife and daughter in Dallas, Texas, where he is completing a Ph.D. in literary studies. He is a sometime teacher of creative writing and other things literary at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his fiction has appeared previously in Mobile Bay Tales: Essays and Stories about a Region. His e-mail address is charles@utdallas.edu.

Caroline Prince has published a number of short stories in small magazines, including Product, Don't Mess With Me, and Slugger. She played bass for the short-lived yet powerful band Trip to Argentina, and was a1994 recipient of the Joan Johnson Award for short fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi.

James Robison is author of Rumor and Other Stories, and The Illustrator. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker and elsewhere. Seven stories appeared in a 1994 issue of the print edition of Blip Magazine Archive, and of the seven, four were singled out for inclusion or mention in this year's Best American Short Stories.

Karen Shepard received her MFA from the University of Houston and is currently teaching English at Williams College. Her short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review; her first novel is out there trying to get sold.