Glimmer Train Stories, #32 - Softcover

RUSSELL BANKS has published thirteen works of fiction, including more recently The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and Cloudsplitter. He is interviewed here by Rob Trucks.

PETER LEFCOURT's publications include five novels, most recently The Woody which was published by Simon & Schuster.

JANA MARTIN's nonfiction has been widely published in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and the Village Voice. She's the author of two non-fiction books, and her novel Rubber Days is in progress at this writing. "Hope" is her first published short story and won 1st Place in Glimmer Train's Short-Story Award for New Writers.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is an acclaimed novelist, but her recent memoir, Ruined by Reading, has also been warmly welcomed by serious readers. She is interviewed here by Nancy Middleton.

Prize-winning short-story writer LEE MARTIN has been widely published and is the editor of the American Literary Review.

NANCY REISMAN's short stories have also been widely published and have earned her numerous awards. She teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

VICTORIA LANCELOTTA's fiction has appeared in numerous highly regarded journals and has been anthologized in Fiction 2000.

SIOBHAN DOWD has edited several books on behalf of International PEN's Writers-in-Prison Committee.