DENNIS BARONE'S Echoes received the 1997 America Award for most outstanding book of fiction by a living American writer. He co-edited (with Peter Ganick) The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets and edited Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster. His essays on American literature and culture have appeared in journals such as American Studies, Critique, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Voices in Italian Americana. A graduate of Bard College, he received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished Fulbright lecturing award, in the Netherlands. He is Chair of the English Department at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Janice
La Motta's paintings have been included in
numerous one-person and
group exhibitions throughout the country,
and they are represented in many
private and corporate collections. She also
is the owner and director of
the Paesaggio Gallery in West Hartford, and
she curates six exhibitions
annually at the 100 Pearl Gallery in Hartford,
Connecticut. Before opening
Paesaggio in 1991 she was curator at the
New Britain Museum of American Art.