Glimmer Train Fall 2003 Issue #48 - Softcover

J. Patrice Whetsell is a graduate of Oberlin College and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Ragdale Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently working on her second novel. This is her first published story.

Diane Chang was born in a village near Shanghai, China in 1976, and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of three. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and, in 2000, received a Fulbright grant to work on her first novel in Shanghai. "Mother Knows" is her first published story.

Jennifer Oh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. She received her BA with high distinction in English from Duke University (2002). Her recent awards include the 2001 Short Fiction Prize in an international undergraduate contest sponsored by SUNY at Stony Brook, and a Benenson Arts Award to conduct writing workshops with AIDS patients in New York City. Ms. Oh is currently studying creative writing at Columbia University’s MFA program.

Carol Roh-Spaulding is Associate Professor of English at Drake University, where she teaches fiction writing and American ethnic literature. She has written a collection of stories titled Brides of Valencia and is completing a second collection, Waiting for Mr. Kim. She is also compiling an edited collection of short fiction on the subject of mixed race in Asian American literature. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in several journals, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized in several collections, including Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction (3rd edition), Shawn Wong’s Harpercollins edition, Asian American Literature, the Asian American prose collection, Into the Fire, and two Ploughshares collections. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Heathcote Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for best story of the year. She lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband and son, Jonah.

Jonathan Wei lives outside of New York City with his wife, Lee Peterson, and his dog Jasper. Information concerning his life and self beyond this is scanty and untrustworthy, and so to be ignored.

Elizabeth Gallu is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania as well as a Vermont Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship. Her work has appeared in such publications as North American Review, TROIKA, and Beloit Fiction Journal. She attended Smith College and earned her graduate degree at Harvard University. Before relocating to Atlanta nearly four years ago with her husband and three cats, Elizabeth lived for several years in the Transylvania region of Romania. Prior to that she resided in New England. She currently works at Emory University and is completing a collection of stories.

Barry Lyga has written everything from comic books to screenplays to short stories to novels. His work has taken awards at the Random House Book Fair two years running and has appeared in the Florida Review. He is currently working on two novels and a screenplay at the same time.

Virgil Suárez is the author of the novels Latin Jazz, The Cutter, Havana Thursdays, and Going Under, the story collection Welcome to the Oasis, and a memoir, Spared Angola. He has published three books of poetry and edited three literary anthologies. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Colorado Review, the Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, New England Review, the Massachusetts Review, and others. He teaches at Florida State