Contributors
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Salar Abdoh is author of two novels, The Poet Game and Opium. He is an assistant professor of English at the City College of City University of New York, and author of essays, short stories, and translations that have appeared in various periodicals, including the New York Times, Bomb Magazine, Beacon Press, and Guernica. He was born in Iran.
Melissa Coss Aquino is a candidate for the MFA at City University of New York and a member of the International Women's Writing Guild. She lives in the Bronx.
Michael G. Bagneris, a native of New Orleans, is Judge of Division "H" of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court in New Orleans. He serves as a Bar Examiner for the Louisiana State Bar and is a member of the Louisiana Judicial College, the Supreme Court Ethics Committee, and the Supreme Court Pro Se Litigation Committee. This Yale University graduate received the J. D. degree from Tulane University Law School.
Kevin Birmingham is a candidate for the Ph. D. in English and American language and literature at Harvard University.
Brittnay Buckner received her master's degree from the School of Education at Harvard University. She lives in Washington, DC.
Christian Campbell, resident of the Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago, read for the M. Phil. in English at Balliol College, Oxford University, as the 2002 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar and recently completed the Ph. D. degree in English at Duke University. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College. During the 2008 fall term, he will join the English faculty at the University of Toronto.
Patrick Chamoiseau is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. He is most widely known for his novels, for which he has received considerable international attention, including France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for his Texaco in 1992. Elogé de la créolité (an essay with Raphaël Confiant and Jean Bernabé), Childhood (an autobiography), and Solibo Magnificent (a novel) are some of his other books. He lives in his native Martinique.
Roohi Choudhry has published in a number of anthologies and periodicals, including Desilicious, 21 Under 40, Hyphen Magazine, and Bitch Magazine. She has lived in Pakistan, southern Africa, and the Middle East.
John Claborn is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree in English at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He is specializing in twentieth-century American literature, film studies, and critical theory.
Edward Dees is a physician, currently practicing emergency and internal medicine in New Orleans and Upstate New York. For most of his career, he has practiced medicine in the New Orleans area and the River Parishes. Since Hurricane Katrina, he has been living between New Orleans and Upstate New York.
Heidi W. Durrow, a fiction writer and podcaster, has published in The Literary Review and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has received a number of awards for her work, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Writers, and top honors in the Lorain Hemingway Short Story Competition. [End Page 650]
Sandra C. Duvivier is an assistant professor of English at James Madison University, where she teaches courses in Caribbean and African American literatures, American women's fiction, and gender studies. Her publications have appeared in MaComère and A House Divided.
Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, who teaches at Syracuse University, studied fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received the MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University. She is a Minnesota native.
Mary Foster, who began her career working for radio and television, now works as a reporter for the Associated Press, where she has been employed since 1988. She lives in New Orleans.
Danielle Legros Georges is an assistant professor in the Arts and Learning Division of Lesley University and author of Maroon, a book of poems.
John F. Guess is currently Managing Consultant with Guess Group, Inc., a Houston, Texas, real estate firm, and with ACCESS! Seminars and Consulting Services of Dallas. He also serves as Managing Director of Just Right Entertainment, a theatrical and film production company in Houston, and as U. S. Representative for Privatization Group International, LLC, a Delaware entity operating in Johannesburg, South Africa. He...
