David Bromwich is the Housum Professor of English at Yale University and author most recently of Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry (University of Chicago Press).
Amy Clampitt (1920–94) won critical acclaim when sixty-three years old with the publication of her book of poems The Kingfisher. She was born on a farm in Iowa and worked for many years in publishing and editing.
John Crowley’s new novel is The Evening Land: Lord Byron’s Novel, to be published in summer 2005 by William Morrow. His collection of stories Novelties & Souvenirs appeared in spring 2004, published by Harper Perennial.
Bryan D. Dietrich’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and many other journals. His first book, Krypton Nights, was published by Zoo Press. He is professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.

Dewey Faulkner has taught at Yale and at the University of Texas in San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper, television, and radio as a music critic.
David Galef has published nine books, most recently the short-story collection Laugh Track. He is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he also administers the MFA program in creative writing.
Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The most recent of her many books of poems is Laws (Zoo Press, 2004).
David Huddle’s fifth collection of poems, Grayscale, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2004. Other recent books are the novels The Story of a Million Years and La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl, both from Houghton Mifflin. He teaches at the University of Vermont and the Bread Loaf School of English.
Lizzie Hutton graduated from the University of Michigan’s MFA program, where she won Hopwood and Meader Awards. An essay will be appearing this season in The New England Review. She currently teaches at the university’s writing center.
John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry are Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2003), and Doppler Effect (Salt, 2004). The New Arcadia is due out from Norton in July 2005. He is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio.
Theodore Leinwand is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His essay on Keats reading Shakespeare appeared recently in The Kenyon Review. He is now at work on an essay about Coleridge reading Shakespeare.
Fiona Maazel is just finishing her first novel, Agent Blue. She lives in New York.
Jacqueline Osherow’s fifth book of poems, The Hoopoe’s Crown, will be published in October by BOA. She has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America.
Wyatt Prunty founded and directs the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and edits the Sewanee Writers’ Series. His most recent collection of poems, Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, appeared in 2000.
Sherod Santos’s most recent collection of poems, The Perishing, was published by W. W. Norton in 2003. A collection of his translations, Early Greek Poets, is forthcoming in autumn 2005. He is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
Jeffrey Skinner has poems forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Slate Magazine, and other journals. His play Fortunate Son was given staged readings at theaters in Connecticut and Maine, and has been made into a low-budget film. Gender Studies is his latest collection of poems.
Henry Sloss teaches English and humanities at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. His collection The Threshold of the New was published by the University of South Carolina Press.
Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and editor of The Southwest Review. His forthcoming work includes How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry (Oxford), and Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt (Columbia), of which the letters in this issue are a part.
Norma Tilden is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University, where she teaches literature and nonfiction writing. She is currently at work on a book of literary nonfiction titled Animal Watch, as well as a critical study of the contemporary nature essay.
C. Dale Young is the author of The Second Person, published this month by Zoo Press, and The Day Underneath the Day (Triquarterly, 2001). He practices medicine in the San Francisco Bay area and serves as the poetry editor of New England Review.