Contributors
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Scott Blackwood, recipient of a Dobie Paisano Literature Fellowship, directs and teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is author of In the Shadow of Our House (short stories) and We Agreed to Meet Just Here (a novel, winner of the 2007 AWP Award). His fiction and nonfiction prose have also been published in American Short Fiction, Austin Chronicle, Gettysburg Review, Austin American-Statesman, Boston Review, and Southwest Review.
Robert Boswell is author of six novels, three collections of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. In the spring of 2009, Graywolf will publish The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, his new collection of short fiction. For his work, he has received numerous awards, prizes, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the John Gassner Prize (for his play Tongues). He teaches at the University of Houston, New Mexico State University, and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Norma Elia Cantú, who was reared in Laredo, TX, is Professor of English at the University of Texas in San Antonio. She is author Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, an autobiographical narrative, and a number of academic books and articles on “border literature, the teaching of English, quinceañera celebration and the matachines, a religious dance tradition.” This native of Mexico is also editor of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Culture and Traditions series published by the Texas A&M University Press.
Jack Carson, Jr., teaches in the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He has also published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, CLA Journal, Western Journal of Black Studies, and The Journal of African American Studies.
Daniel Chacón is author of three books, Chicano Chicanery, and the shadows took him, and Unending Rooms (winner of the Hudson Prize). His short stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including The New England Review, Colorado Review, ZYZYVVA and Callaloo. He teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Ed Chamberlain is a doctoral student in American studies and comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Laurie Champion, a native of Texas, is Professor of English at San Diego State University. Her essays and reviews have appeared in such periodicals as Southern Quarterly, Studies in Short Fiction, Short Story, and American Literature.
David Chariandy is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His first novel, Soucouyant, was long-listed for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s premier prize for fiction. His critical essays have appeared in a number of periodicals, such as Postcolonial Text, The Journal of West Indian Literature, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, and Canadian Literature.
Janelle Collins is an associate professor in the Department of English & Philosophy at Arkansas State University, and General Editor of Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies. Her work has been published in such periodicals as MELUS, Genders, Southern Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, and CLA Journal. [End Page 704]
Michael S. Collins is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station, where he teaches courses in creative writing and American literature. His work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Modern Philology, The New Leader, Salamander, Poetry Canto, 2003 Best American Poetry, Callaloo, and PMLA. He received the Ph. D. in English from Columbia University and he is an associate editor of Callaloo.
J. California Cooper, novelist and playwright, is author of A Piece of Mine, Homemade Love (American Book Award), Some Soul to Keep, The Future Has a Past: Stories, Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories, In Search of Satisfaction, Some People, Some Other Place, Family, Life Is Short But Wide, and other books of fiction. She has won numerous awards for her work, including The American Library Association’s Literary Lion Award (1988) and the James Baldwin Writing Award (1988). This Texas native lives in California.
Keith Corson is a candidate for the doctorate in the Department of Cinema Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts...
