DAVID HOPES Is professor of literature and language at the University of North carolina at Asheville, founder and editor of Urthona Press, founder and director of the Black Swan Theater Company (Swanthtre@aol.com). He is the author of the Juniper Prize and Saxifrage Prize winning book, The Glacier's Daughters, and of Blood Rose (Urthona Press, 1997), the Pulitzer-nominated A Childhood of the Milky Way (Akron University Press), and A Sense of Morning (Milkweed Editions, 1999). His works have appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Audubon, Christopher Street, and The Sun.