Glimmer Train Stories (Spring 2004, Issue 50)

William Trevor is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by the New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. He lives in Devon, England.

Clark E. Knowles lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with his wife Gail and his daughter Grace. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire. His fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, the Flying Horse Review, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

N. Nye'’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inkwell, bananafish, Writer’s Forum, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and an anthology, Higher Elevations: Stories from the West. She lives in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, and is an on-call reference librarian at Colorado College.

Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman and House of Sand and Fog. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Prix de Rome Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

Daniel Villasenor lives in Italy where he teaches martial arts, and trains and shoes horses for a living. His first novel, The Lake, has been translated into five languages. His next two novels take place in Italy.

Jonathan Kooker is a graduate of Syracuse University and the master’s program in Creative Writing at Emerson College. A winner at age twenty-eight of the 1999 Virgin Fiction Contest from William Morrow Books, he works as a freelance writer in Chicago. "Vast Inland Sea" is his second story accepted for publication.

Frances Lefkowitz has published short stories in Fiction, Hope Magazine, Passages North, and Northeast Journal. Her essays, reviews, and journalism have appeared in Poets & Writers, Yankee, Island, and other consumer magazines and newspapers. She now works as an editor for Body & Soul (formerly New Age Journal).

George Fahey graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he studied history. He is currently wrapping up work on a novel.

Adam Schuitema's work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cream City Review, Washington Square, and the Spoon River Poetry Review.

Anita Shah Kapadia's work has also appeared in StoryQuarterly, River Oak Review, and Gargoyle. Avital Gad-Cykman has published in Happy, Imago, Salon, Zeotrope, Karawane Magazine, and elsewhere.

Michael Bahler's fiction has appeared on nerve.com, in Hangling Loose, and in the New Jersey Review.

Xiaofei Chen is a sophomore at Monte Vista Christian High in California.

Ioanna Carlsen's work has appeared in Poetry, Hudson Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, and elsewhere.