Hans Ostrom is Distinguished Professor of English and codirector of African-American studies at the University of Puget Sound. He is author of A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2001) and Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993). His articles, poems, and short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, and he is author of the novel Three to Get Ready (1991) and a recent book of poems, Subjects Apprehended (2000). With Wendy Bishop and Katharine Haake, he wrote Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longman, 2001).

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