Notes on Contributors
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Daniel Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Southwest Review. He currently teaches in the English department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Jessica Anya Blau’s first novel The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Harper Perennial), was chosen as a best Book of 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle and a Best Summer Book by the Today show, the New York Post, and New York Magazine. She is currently working on her second novel, Drinking Closer to Home.
Colin Fleming’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Criterion, Slate, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and BookForum. His fiction is forthcoming in Boulevard, Triquarterly, and The Republic of Letters.
William Giraldi teaches in the Writing Program at Boston University and is senior fiction editor for the journal Agni.
Debora Greger’s most recent volume of poems Men, Women, and Ghosts was published by Penguin in 2008.
Jefferson Hunter teaches modern British literature and film at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing is forthcoming from the Indiana University Press.
Stephen Kampa has poems published or forthcoming in The Southwest Review, River Styx, Smartish Pace, and Subtropics. He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
Patrick Kennedy is a fiction writer enrolled in the MFA program in the Writing seminars at Johns Hopkins.
Christopher Knopf has been writing for the screen since 1953. Among his eight films are The Emperor of the North Pole and Posse (directed by and starring Kirk Douglas), and among some seventy television shows he has written are ten Movies of the Week as well as the pilot for The Big Valley series. He was twice nominated for Emmys and was twice a winner of the Writers Guild award for television writing. He was president of the Writers Guild West from 1965–67, and national chairman of The Writers Guild East and West from 1967–69. [End Page 461]
Len Krisak’s books include Even as We Speak, If Anything, and The Odes of Horace (a translation). His translation, The Eclogues of Virgil, is forthcoming in the Fall of 2009. He was a four-time champion on Jeopardy!
Theodore Leinwand is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His companion essays on Keats, Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes reading Shakespeare have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Kenyon Review, Studies in Romanticism, The Yale Review, and The New England Review. He wishes to thank Kate Donahue, John Berryman’s widow and the copyright holder of his writings, as well as the staff in the manuscripts division of the University of Minnesota’s Elmer L. Andersen Library.
Jolie Lewis lives in West Virginia, where she is working on a novel, Farewell Avenue, from which the story “After Marcy” is taken. She is a 2008 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2006 graduate of the MFA program at Ohio State University. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House and Shenandoah.
Rachel Lyon is an MFA candidate at George Mason University and teaches creative writing there. She serves as managing editor of So to Speak, a journal affiliated with George Mason University’s creative writing program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Zone 3, Oak Bend Review, and Cadenza, among others.
Karlis Rekevics is a New York-based sculptor whose urban-inspired constructions in cast plaster, wood, metal, and electric light have been shown at PS 1, the Sculpture Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Altria Space, and Sculpture Key West 2008 and 2009. His drawings explore the marginal areas of the urban landscapes that are the starting points of his sculptures, but they are completely independent, not preparations for works in some other medium.
Jay Rogoff ’s most recent book, The Long Fault, appeared from LSU Press in 2008. In 2011 LSU Press will issue his book of dance poems, The Code of Terpsichore, which will include the poem “Adagio” from the present issue.
Matthew Westbrook is senior editor at the North Charles Street...
