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  • Contributors

Fiction / Poetry

Seth Abramson is the author of Northerners (Western Michigan UP, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, and The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009). A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Claire Barwise graduated from the University of Montana, and received her MFA from the University of Florida. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow, and her work has appeared in Swink, Fawlt Magazine, and Quick Fiction, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is at work on her first novel.

Brian Brodeur is the author of Other Latitudes (2008), winner of the University of Akron Press's 2007 Akron Poetry Prize. New poems and reviews appear or are forthcoming in Margie, Pleiades, Quarterly West, River Styx, and online at The Missouri Review. For more information, please visit Brian's weblog "How a Poem Happens" (www.howapoemhappens.blogspot.com), an online anthology of interviews with poets.

Anhvu Buchanan's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 580 Split, The Cream City Review, La Fovea, Parthenon West Review, The Sand Canyon Review, and word for/word. He recently completed a manuscript on psychological disorders entitled The Disorder Index and received his MFA from San Francisco State University. He currently lives in San Francisco, teaches in Oakland, and co-curates The Living Room Reading Series.

Christi Clancy's work has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, The Rambler Magazine, The Cream City Review, Yalobusha, on literarymama.com and elsewhere. She's working on her PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry titles are Ka-Ching! (U of Pittsburgh P, 2009), Two and Two (U of Pittsburgh P, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (U of Pittsburgh P, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami. [End Page 145]

Originally from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Michael Garriga holds a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. His work has most recently appeared in New Letters, Black Warrior Review, Story South, and Juked. "Into the Greasy Grass" is part of a book-length manuscript concerning the history of, and numerous variations on, dueling.

Miz Hefferman resides in Portland, Oregon, where she drives a mean taxi and rides a sweet bike. She remembers her father fondly and often.

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is from Panama City, Panama, and Houston, Texas. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Michigan where he was a Cornwell Fellow. His play, The Burning Room, winner of the National Playwriting Award from WSU, was a participating entry in the Kennedy Center for the Arts Annual College Theater Festival. His poetry has appeared in The Caribbean Writer and NANOFiction, among other journals. He continues to work as a writer and emerging performance artist in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a Zell Post-Graduate Fellow.

Alyse Knorr is an alum of Elon University and is currently pursuing her MFA at George Mason University, where she will teach composition this fall. Her writing has been published in Dark Sky Magazine, The Avatar Review, and more than a dozen newspapers across the country.

Marc McKee received his MFA from the University of Houston, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he lives with his wife, Camellia Cosgray. His recent work appears in The Journal, Barrelhouse, Subtropics, absent, and Handsome, and is forthcoming from Copper Nickel. He is the author of a chapbook, What Apocalypse?, from New Michigan Press, and a full-length collection, Fuse, which is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2011.

John A. Nieves has works published or forthcoming in journals such as Fugue, Florida Review, California Quarterly, and SLAB. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Missouri.

Andrew Rihn lives in Canton, OH. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Pemmican, Blue Collar Review, November 3rd Club, Labor, and Breadcrumb Scabs. He is also the author of several slim [End Page 146...

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