STEVEN E. COLBURN is an independent scholar and poet whose publications include essays on the work of Jean Arp, André Breton, William Golding, Graham Greene, Pär Lagerkvist, Doris Lessing, Alberto Moravia, Eugene O'Neill, Cesare Pavese, Fernando Pessoa, Anne Sexton, and Tristan Tzara. Co-founder of White Mule: A Poetry Journal, he has published poetry in Alabama Alumni News, Aura, Kaleidoscope, Kraken, Maryland Poetry Review, Omnibus II, River Review/La Revue rivière, and Mattoid. For his work in literature, he has been profiled in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in the World, the Dictionary of International Biography, and Men of Achievement. The editor of Anne Sexton's NO EVIL STAR: SELECTED ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, AND PROSE and ANNE SEXTON: TELLING THE TALE, his most recent projects include a study of Anne Sexton's uncollected poetry and a critical monograph on the theological backgrounds of her work.RECENT PUBLICATIONS"The Troubled Life of the Artist." In Sexton: Selected Criticism. Ed. Diana Hume George. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988, 283-300."'This Is My Tale Which I Have Told': Anne Sexton as Storyteller." In Critical Essays on Anne Sexton. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989, 166-177."Anne Sexton: A Supplemental Bibliography, 1945-1990." Bulletin of Bibliography 48.2 (1991): 109-15."Graham Greene's 'A Day Saved': A Modern Tale of Time and Identity." Studies in Short Fiction 29.3 (1992): 377-84."The Bait" (poem). Mattoid: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 52/53 (1998): 311-15. Special Double Issue, "Crossing Cultures," Edited by Jonathan Hart. Centre for Research in Cultural Communication, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.WORK IN PROGRESS"'And That's the Way It Was': Sexton's Poetic Apprenticeship.""Anne Sexton's Poetic Juvenilia, 1945-47: A Preliminary Study.""'As a Child's Heart Might': Childhood in Anne Sexton's Poetry.""Disabling Myth: Plath's 'Daddy' and the Vampire Legend.""From 'Nameless Flesh' to 'Double Image': The Triumph of the Confessional Mode in Anne Sexton's Poetry.""Lost Connections in Sexton's Uncollected Poetry.""The Reviser's Art: Anne Sexton's 'Just Once'.""Sexton's 'Eighteen Days Without You': The Development of a Poem.""Sexton's Heimarmene: The Theological Backgrounds of Her Work.""Sexton's Later Uncollected Poetry.""The 'Rats...Star' Palindrome in Anne Sexton's Poetry."