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	ALEX ALBRIGHT has edited three collections of poetry, including A. R. Ammons: The North Carolina Poems. He was editor of the North Carolina Literary Review, 1991-96 (MLA's Best New Journal,1994). He wrote and produced both the UNC-TV documentary Boogie in Black and White and "Coming into Freedom: the End of the Civil War in North Carolina," an outdoor musical drama starring Louise Anderson. His work has appeared in American Film Review, Black Film Review, Living Blues, and the anthologies Good Country People, Kerouac at the Wild Boar, and Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell.
	PATRICK BIZZARO is the author of seven poetry collections, including Fear of the Coming Drought (forthcoming Spring 1999) and The man who eats death for breakfast. He has won the New York Quarterly Madeline Sadin Award and LaSalle University's Four Quarters Poetry Prize. His Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell has been nominated for awards from MLA and SSSL. He is recipient of the 1995-96 Bertie Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching. Responding to Student Poems: Applications of Critical Theory reflects his ongoing interest in how best to employ the workshop method in helping young poets develop their talents.
	JULIE FAY's three poetry collections are The Woman Behind You (Pitt Poetry Series, 1998), Portraits of Women, and In Every Mirror. She has published her poems, fiction, and nonfiction essays in journals both here and abroad, and has received grants, fellowships and awards from the North Carolina Arts Council; l'Institut Regional du Livre du Conseil Regional Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur;  the Centre International des Traducteurs Litteraires Arles, France; the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland; and the Michael Karolyi Foundation, France. She is Poetry Editor of the North Carolina Literary Review and Director of the Writers Reading Series.
	WILLIAM HALLBERG's first novel,  The Rub of the Green  (recently republished by Ballantine) was a Book of the Month Club selection and was named a New York Times Notable Book. He is the editor of the short story anthology Perfect Lies: A Century of Golf Stories, and author of The Soul Of Golf,  a travel memoir. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Southern Review, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, Kansas Quarterly, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, and others; his work has been published in Great Britain, Australia, and Italy.
	PETER MAKUCK, winner of the International Poetry Forum's 1993 Charity Randall Citation, is the author of five collections of poems: Where We Live, The Sunken Lightship, Pilgrims, Shorelines, and Against Distance. He has also published two books of stories, Breaking and Entering and Costly Habits, and is co-editor of An Open World, essays on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Nation, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and many others. He has edited Tar River Poetry since 1976. In 1996 he was named ECU Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences.
	ROBERT SIEGEL's plays Overlooking the Park and Night Into Winter have been presented in NYC at Ensemble Studio Theater, Swear Allegiance at the Perry Street Theater, and Wild Mushrooms at Lincoln Center through the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Overlooking the Park has also been produced at Charlotte Repertory's New Play Festival in February of 1999, and at American Theater For Actors in NYC in July of 2000. He was commissioned to write Katmandu, a one-man play for Academy Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham; he's also written the screenplays After the Rain for Lumiere (U.S.) and The Two for Filmagnum Oy (Finland). He is the recipient of the White Bird Theater Award.
	LUKE WHISNANT, recipient of the Department's 1997 Bertie Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award, is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel, and of Street, a chapbook of poems. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Esquire, Grand Street, Arts & Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others; two of his stories been reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and three have been included on the Distinguished Story List of The Best American Short Stories. Recent publications include stories in the anthologies Racing Home and This Is Where We Live: Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers. He is associate editor of Tar River Poetry.