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Julia Vitullo-Martin edited Breaking Away: The Future of Cities (Twentieth Century Fund Press). She was a Vista Volunteer, a civil rights worker, and an antiwar protester during the sixties.
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Michele Dillon is associate professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire and editor of the recently published Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (Cambridge University Press).
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Rosemary Deen is coeditor of Commonweal’s poetry section.
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Benedicta Cipolla, a former correspondent for Catholic News Service in Rome, is a freelance writer in New York.
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Valerie Sayers's new novel, The Powers, was published this year. She is chair of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame.