ROBERT C. BERWICK co-directs MIT's Center for Biological and Computational Learning, where he is professor of computer science and brain and cognitive sciences-an occupation that diverted him from his first career in evolutionary biology.

JEFF CLARK's The Little Door Slides Back, a 1996 National Poetry Series winner, will appear in spring from Sun & Moon. He lives in San Francisco.

ALFRED CORN's seventh collection of poems, titled Present, is scheduled for March 1997, as well as his first novel, titled Part of His Story.

ERNESTO CORTES, JR. is director of the Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation Network and the Texas Interfaith Education Fund. He has been a community organizer for over 20 years.

ROBERT CREELEY's most recent books are Echoes (New Directions) and a paperback edition of Selected Poems (California). Presently Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he is working with Buffalo's City Honors School to put students online with a journal of their own writing (http://cityhonors.buffalo.k12.ny.us/chs), thanks to a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award.

KIKI DELANCEY grew up in a coal family in Cambridge, Ohio, and went to work in the family business in 1981. Her stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, The Bridge, BookPage, Oxford Magazine, Quarter After Eight, and Boston Review. In 1993 she won Doubleday's "Homeland" contest; she has also been a three-time recipient of the Midwest Writers' Association's first prize in fiction.

THEO EMERY is a freelance journalist in Boston. He has written for the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, In These Times, Z Magazine, and Inter Press Service.

EMILY FRAGOS received an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She lives in New York City and teaches at Fordham University. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review and The American Voice.

RICHARD FREEMAN holds the Ascherman Chair of Economics at Harvard. He is program director in labor studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research and executive program director of the Comparative Labor Market Institutions Program at the London School of Economics Center for Economic Performance.

ELI GOTTLIEB is a writer and translator whose first novel, The Boy Who Went Away, will be published in January 1997 by St. Martin's.

MICHAEL GREENBERG is an essayist and fiction writer, and a frequent contributor to Boston Review. He lived in Argentina from 1972-75.

HEIDI HARTMANN is the founder and director of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a Washington-based think tank that focuses on economic issues of special concern to women. An economist with degrees from Swarthmore College and Yale University, she is also a recent recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

JAMES HECKMAN is Henry Schultz Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the University of Chicago.

PAUL KRUGMAN is professor of economics at MIT. His books include The Age of Diminished Expectations, Peddling Prosperity, and Pop Internationalism.

ROBERT LIETZ's most recent book is After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems, published by Basfal Books. He teaches at Ohio Northern University.

HEATHER MCHUGH's Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 (Wesleyan) was a National Book Award Finalist in 1994. From January to June, she is Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington at Seattle.

ERIC ORMSBY's third collection of poems, For a Modest God: New & Selected Poems, will be published by Grove in April 1997. His poems appear regularly in Canadian and American magazines. He lives in Montreal.

H. ALLEN ORR is associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester and a David and Lucile Packard Fellow.

MICHAEL J. PIORE is David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy at MIT. His latest book is Beyond Individualism (Harvard).

FRANCES FOX PIVEN is on the faculty of the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is co-author, with Richard A. Cloward, of Regulating the Poor, updated in 1993.

MATTHEW ROHRER was raised in Oklahoma and attended universities in Michigan, Dublin, and Iowa. His first book of poems, A Hummock in the Malookas, a 1994 National Poetry Series winner, is recently out in paperback from Norton.

GEORGE SCIALABBA is a freelance critic living in Cambridge.

JAMES TOBIN is Sterling Professor of Economics Emeritus at Yale University. In 1961-62 he was a member of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers.

SUSAN WHEELER's first collection of poetry, Bag 'o' Diamonds (Georgia), was selected by James Tate to receive the Norma Farber Award of the Poetry Society of America. Robert Hass chose her second, Smokes, for the Four Way Books Award; the collection will be published in the spring of 1998.