MICHAEL BEHE is associate professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University.

DAVID BERLINSKI is the author, most recently, of A Tour of the Calculus (Pantheon) and The Body Shop (St. Martin's). He has taught philosophy and mathematics in this country and in France.

ROBERT BERWICK co-directs MIT's Center for Biological and Computational Learning.

LISA COHEN's writing has appeared in Ploughshares, XXX Fruit, and the Voice Literary Supplement.

JERRY A. COYNE is professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. He is currently working on the origin of species in the fruit fly genus Drosophila.

RICHARD DAWKINS is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His books include The Blind Watchmaker and Climbing Mount Improbable.

DANIEL DENNETT is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University and the director of the Center for Cognitive Studies. His most recent book is Kinds of Minds (Basic, 1996).

ROBERT DiSILVESTRO is associate professor of human nutrition at The Ohio State University. His research interests include nutrition and clinical chemistry of metalloproteins and biochemistry.

RUSSELL DOOLITTLE is a professor at the University of California, San Diego and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His major research interests are in protein structure and evolution and in blood coagulation proteins.

TIMOTHY DONNELLY is poetry editor of Boston Review.

LYNN EMANUEL is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her first two books of poems, The Dig and Hotel Fiesta, have been recently re-issued in one volume (Illinois).

RICHARD A. FELDMAN is executive director of the Worker Center, the Economic Development & Workforce Division of the King County (Seattle) Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

DOUGLAS FUTUYMA is professor of ecology and evolution at SUNY Stony Brook. He has published the textbook Evolutionary Biology and a critique of creationism, Science on Trial. His research is on speciation and the evolution of diet in herbivorous insects.

FORREST GANDER's most recent book is Deeds of Utmost Kindness (Wesleyan). He edited and translated poems for Mouth to Mouth: Poems by 12 Contemporary Mexican Women (Milkweed Editions).

AMY GERSTLER's ten books include Bitter Angel (awarded a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1991), Nerve Storm, and Crown of Weeds (forthcoming from Viking Penguin in March).

JONATHAN GILL teaches literature and humanities at Columbia University, where he is completing a dissertation on anti-Semitism and American poetry.

PETER GODFREY-SMITH teaches in the philosophy department at Stanford University. He is the author of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge, 1996).

EAMON GRENNAN is from Dublin. His books are Wildly for Days, What Light There Is & Other Poems, As If It Mattered, and the recently published So It Goes.

PAUL HOOVER is the author of six poetry collections including Viridian, winner of the Georgia Prize for 1996. Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago, he is also editor of the literary magazine New American Writing and the anthology Postmodern American Poetry (Norton).

PHILLIP E. JOHNSON is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Darwin on Trial and Defeating Darwinism--By Opening Minds.

IRA KATZNELSON is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (Princeton, 1996).

CAROLYN KOO's work has appeared in New American Writing, American Letters & Commentary, First Intensity and Lingo. A recipient of awards from the Illinois Arts Council and the Fund for Poetry, she is co-founder and editor of the poetry journal no roses review.

DANIEL D. LURIA is a Scientific Fellow at the Industrial Technology Institute, where he directs the Performance Benchmarking Service, the nation's most detailed source of information on the performance of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms. He is a member of the New Party.

HARRY MATHEWS is the author of five novels (The Conversions, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Tlooth, Cigarettes, and The Journalist), poems, and essays. He divides his time between Paris, New York City, and Key West.

MYRON ORFIELD is a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and adjunct law professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the director of the Metropolitan Area Program of the American Land Institute and the author of Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Brookings Institution/Lincoln Institute, 1997).

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

DOUGLAS POWELL's poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Puerto Del Sol and elsewhere. His manuscript, Tea, was a finalist for the AWP Award in Poetry.

JOEL ROGERS teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a research and technical assistance center on regional economic upgrading. He is Chair of the New Party.

MICHAEL RUSE is professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph and the author of Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (Harvard).

JAMES A. SHAPIRO is a bacterial geneticist. His research analyzes how mobile genetic elements rearrange the bacterial genome and how cellular control circuits regulate the activities of these natural genetic engineering systems.

ALAN A. STONE is Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School.

J. PHILLIP THOMPSON teaches political science at Barnard College. He was formerly Director of Housing Coordination under New York's Mayor David Dinkins and was a Deputy General Manager of the New York City Housing Authority.

KAREN VOLKMAN's book Crash's Law (Norton) was a 1995 National Poetry Series winner. She teaches at New York University.

MARGARET WEIR is a senior fellow in the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. She is currently writing a book on the political isolation of cities in the United States.