Volume I

Fiction:
Allen Wier, Marrying the Devil
Ann Beattie, In Irons
Richard Bausch, The Voices from the Other Room
Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Finding a New Wife
John Keeble, Outlaws
Robert Olmstead, The Air above the Ground
Kelly Cherry, Speaking Vanish
Lex Williford, Seven Train
Gordon Weaver, Gilded Quill: The Story of Jones
Barbara Hooke, What's Missing
Bill Morrissey, Slow Blues
M.M.B. Walsh, Good Plume & the Pesthouse

Poetry:
Robert Wrigley     The Blessing
    Doilies
    My Beautiful Carnivore

Chapbook:
Michael Blumenthal, For I have Lived Like a Dusty Angel

Essay:
George Garrett, A Writing Life

Cover Photo:
Holland Williams

Masthead:
Mitch Wieland, Editor in Chief
Quinn Pritchard, Assistant Editor
Tamara Shores, Graduate Assistant
Congratulations to these authors, whose works from The Idaho Review were included in the "100 Other Distinguished Stories" in The Best American Short Stories 1999.
Richard Bausch, The Voices from the Other Room
Ann Beattie, In Irons
Robert Olmstead, The Air above the Ground