CONTRIBUTORS

Reiko Akamine is an independent scholar focusing on American and Japanese environmental literature and women's literature. She holds M.A. degrees from the University of the Ryukyus and the University of Nevada, Reno. She has published articles on, and translations of, American minority literature and nature writers, such as Gary Snyder, Mary Austin, Terry Tempest Williams, and Michiko Ishimure.

Andres King Cobos is an author, actor, and bioregional activist in Huehuecoyotl, Tepoztlan, Mexico. He helped organize the first bioregional congress of the Americas held in Mexico in 1997.

Richard Evanoff teaches environmental ethics at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. He has been involved with various environmental and citizens groups in Japan and contributes regularly to Japan Environmental Monitor. His recent publications, including a textbook and an anthology, have focused on introducing the works of non‑Japanese environmental writers to Japanese readers.

John Evans is a poet who has given and organized numerous poetry readings in Tokyo, including a performance of his poetic drama, Trog, published in 1992. He is a former coordinator of the Tokyo Writers Workshop and continues to be involved with the publication of Printed Matter. He presently lives in Oxford, England, where he teaches yoga.

Ignacio Fernández is a noted translator living in Madrid, who has been instrumental in introducing Gary Snyder's works to Spanish readers. He published his first book of poems, El breve paso, in 1997. He is currently working on a comprehensive reader of Gary Snyder's work translated into Spanish to be published in Spain.

Timothy Gray is an assistant professor of English at College of State Island, City University of New York. His article, "Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral," recently appeared in Contemporary Literature. He also has an essay forthcoming on Snyder's Myths & Texts. His current projects include articles on the poetry of James Schuyler and the cultural criticism of Greil Marcus.

Yong‑ki Kang earned his Ph.D. in English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and teaches at Chondang National University, Kwangju, South Korea. In addition to work on Snyder, he has also published an article on South Korean environmental writers.

Patrick D. Murphy is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of the forthcoming A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder, the forthcoming Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature, and Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques (1995). Founding editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, he has edited and co‑edited several books, including most recently The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook (1998) and, with Greta Gaard, Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (1998).

Paul Rossiter teaches in the Department of Language and Information sciences at the University of Tokyo. Among his publications are two books of poetry, In Daylight (1995) and Monumenta Nipponica (1995). He is a former coordinator of the Tokyo Writers Workshop and is currently editing an anthology of English-language poetry and fiction by Japanese and expatriate writers in Japan.

Leonard M. Scigaj is Professor of English at Virginia Tech, where he teaches twentieth‑century literature, science fiction, and literature and ecology courses. He has authored and edited books on Ted Hughes, and written essays on Hughes, Plath, science fiction, and environmental writers. His monograph, Sustainable Poetry, has just been published.

Vojo Sindolic was born in Dubrovnik (ex Yugoslavia, now the Republic of Croatia). Poet, painter, and translator, he has translated and published numerous books of the works of Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, and others.

Eric Todd Smith teaches at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Reading Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End forthcoming in the Boise State Western Writers Series. His work has also appeared in Northwest Review, Praxis, and the book Reading the Earth (1998). He is currently at work on a study of change and human identity in literature of place, to be titled Dwelling in Impermanence.