Floyd Skloot's memoir about living with brain damage, In the Shadow of Memory (University of Nebraska), was a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and also won the 2003 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction, judged by Paul West.

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Poets in this issue: Priscilla Atkins, Fleda Brown, Paula Closson Buck, Morri Creech, Sally Dawidoff, Greg Delanty, Theodore Deppe, Mark Dow, Robert Gibb, Lola Haskins, Patricia Hooper, Jessica Hornik, Betty Lies, Catherine McLaughlin, David Meischen, Susan Meyers, Carolyn Miller, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Alison Pelegrin, Donald Platt, Len Roberts, Elizabeth Harris Sagaser, Floyd Skloot, Katherine Soniat, Barry Sternlieb, Baron Wormser