the New Pantagruel

Contributors for Volume One, Issue One

Brianna Brash-Nyberg

Brianna Brash-Nyberg found out she was a Christian at age 16, and an Anglican at age 20. In addition to revising the reams of poetry she produced in the pursuit of her BFA, she's (of course) writing her first novel, A Green Olive Tree in the House of God. She maintains a website at http://www.xaire.net. She lives in Victoria with her husband Michael, who shares her love of centering prayer, used bookstores, and driving a car with both Jesus and Darwin fish on the bumper.

John Paul Davis

John Paul Davis is a writer and teacher. He and his family live in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is an editor and designer of EM Literary, a national, hand-bound literary journal. His poetry, fiction and criticism have been published in a variety of creative writing journals including RATTLE, The Witness, Columbia Poetry Review, and Seven Stories. He maintains a web site of his own. (At the time this issue was published, John was Arts and Design Editor for tNP.)

Andy Farkas

Andy is a printmaker and writer. He has written and published two hand-bound, letterpressed books and is currently working on his third: a collection of children's stories with accompanying prints, from which Frog Song is taken. He lives in Edinboro, PA, with his wife.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg currently lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared or will appear in h2so4, Em Literary, and Two Letters.

Erin Noteboom

Erin Noteboom's first book, Ghost Maps, is just out from Wolsak & Wynn -- and she's still vibrating with joy. She's currently at work on another manuscript, Seal Up the Thunder, this one revisiting biblical stories, setting the psalms to jazz, and mining the literary possibilities of traditional religious (mostly Catholic) forms. The poems here are of the last sort. Erin edits at The New Quarterly, and maintains a blog.

Norman Wirzba

Norman Wirzba is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown College. He is the author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and the editor of The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.

Gregory Wolfe

Gregory Wolfe is the publisher and editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and the Director of the Center for Religious Humanism. He serves as Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University and is the author of Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery.

David Wright

David Wright's most recent book is A Liturgy for Stones (Cascadia, 2003). His poems, reviews and essays have appeared in The Christian Century, The Nimble Spirit Review, and Books & Culture. He maintains a web site at http://www.dwpoet.com