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EDITORIAL STAFF:
FOUNDING EDITORS:
 SUSAN ATEFAT PECKHAM
writes poetry and creative nonfiction. That Kind of Sleep , her first poetry collection, has been selected by Victor Hernandez Cruz as a winner in the National Poetry Series Open Competition and will be published in the fall of 2001 by Coffee House Press.
Individual poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Borderlands,
Texas Poetry Review, The International Poetry
Review, International Quarterly, The Literary Review, The MacGuffin,
Northwest Review,
Onthebus, Prairie Schooner, Puerto Del Sol, The Southern Poetry
Review, The Sycamore Review, The Texas Review, and has been selected
for inclusion in the anthology, In the Field of Words
(Prentice-Hall, 2000). Her work is
informed by many countries. She was born first generation American to
Iranian parents, and has lived most of her life in France and
Switzerland although she has also lived in the United States and
Iran. She has earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska, where
she has taught creative writing, literature, and composition, and was
an Editorial Assistant for Prairie Schooner. She is currently
Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at Hope College in Holland
Michigan
 JOEL B. PECKHAM, JR currently teaches Western World Literature II and Expository Writing at Hope College. He is a scholar of American
Literature and a creative writer whose reviews, scholarly articles, and poetry have been published
in numerous journals throughout The United States and Canada, including American Literature, Ascent, The Black Warrior Review, The Malahat Review, The Mississippi
Quarterly, Nimrod, Passages North, The Sycamore Review, The Southern Review,Texas Studies in Language and Literature, and Yankee
Magazine. New Poems will appear in The Anthology of New England Poetry forthcoming from
The University Press of New England. Nightwalking, his first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press in 2001.
SENIOR ADVISOR:
JACK RIDL teaches Poetry Writing, The Nature of Poetry,
and Contemporary American Poetry. He is also the founder of Hope College's
The Visiting Writers Series, which
since 1985 has brought more than 150 writers to campus. His poetry
collections include The Same Ghost (1985), Between (1988),
the chapbook After School (1987), and Poems from The Same Ghost
and Between (1993). He has been
anthologized in The Third Coast edited by Michael Delp, Conrad
Hilberry, and Herbert Scott (Wayne State University Press), Hummers,
Knucklers, and Slow Curves edited by Don Johnson (University of Illinois
Press), Men of Our Time: Male Poetry in Contemporary America edited
by Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas (University of Georgia Press), Sweet
Nothings, a collection of rock 'n roll poems edited by Jim Elledge
(University of Indiana Press), a collection of work poems, For a Living,
edited by Peter Oresick and Nicholas Coles (University of Illinois Press),
Looking for Your Name, edited by Paul B. Janecz (Orchard Books),
Full Court, edited by Dennis Trudell (Breakaway Books), What
Have You Lost?, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Press).
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