Volume 2, Numbers
8&9 ~ Sept 1996 Robert
Olen Butler's "Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on
Philandering Husband" and "Woman Struck By Car
Turns Into Nymphomaniac" are both part of a new book
of short stories, Tabloid Dreams, which will be
published by Henry Holt this fall and is scheduled to
premiere as an HBO series early next year. His last
collection of short stories, A Good Scent From a
Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in
Fiction. He is also the author of seven novels, including
the recent bestseller, They Whisper. He lives in
Lake Charles, Louisiana, with his wife, the novelist
Elizabeth Dewberry.
Allen Woodman was born and raised in Alabama.
He was educated at Huntingdon College and Florida State
University. He now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he
directs the Creative Writing Program at Northern Arizona
University. He is the author of All-You-Can-Eat,
Alabama and several popular children's picture books.
He has a new collection of short stories forthcoming from
University of West Alabama's Livingston Press.
John Holman, a graduate of USM's Center for
Writers, teaches in the creative writing program at
Georgia State University. His work has appeared in The
New Yorker and in numerous anthologies, and his
collection of stories, Squabble, was published by
Ticknor & Fields.
Victoria Lancelotta studied at Johns Hopkins
and the University of Florida, and is working on her
doctorate at the Center for Writers. She has published in
Glimmer Train, Crescent Review, Black
Warrior Review, Threepenny Review, Texas
Review, and has been nominated for the AWP Intro
Awards and the Henfield Transatlantic Award.
Wendy Battin is the author of In the Solar
Wind (Doubleday/National Poetry Series); poems from
her new collection, Little Apocalypse, have
appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, Yale
Review, and other journals. She has taught poetry at
MIT, Syracuse, Smith, and Connecticut College and is
director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry
Archive, which gives out-of-print books a home on the
Web: http://shain.lib.conncoll.edu/CAPA/capa.html.
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