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  • About the Contributors

Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists and Notes from No Man’s Land, which received a 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches nonfiction writing at Northwestern University, and her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Believer, Gulf Coast, and Harper’s.

William Bradley, Assistant Professor of English at Chowan University, has most recently had work appear in Jabberwock Review and Brevity. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his own collection of linked essays.

Michael Coles is a freelance photographer based in Montana. His images have appeared in newspapers and magazines and his work has been widely exhibited.

Bob Cowser, Jr. is the author/editor of four books of nonfiction, including the New York Times Editor’s Choice Dream Season: A Professor Joins America’s Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team; Scorekeeping: Essays from Home; and Green Fields: Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between, recently published in the Engaged Writers Series at the University of New Orleans Press. He is a Professor of English at St. Lawrence University, and honored visiting faculty member of the Ashland University Low-Residency MFA.

Deborah Cummins is the author of two poetry collections: Counting the Waves (Word Press, 2006) and Beyond the Reach (BkMk Press, 2002). Currently, she [End Page 181] is completing a book-length nonfiction manuscript titled Here and Away, of which “Ebb and Flow” is a part. She and her husband reside in Evanston, IL, and Deer Isle, ME.

T. Fleischmann has recent work in Indiana Review, make/shift, and The Pinch.

Patricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (memoir), Just beneath My Skin (essays), and editor of Minding the Body, Sister to Sister. Her novel The Girl from Soldier Creek won the Fred Bonnie Award from River City Publishing and is forthcoming in 2011. Her coedited anthology (with Jeff Porter) Understanding the Essay is forthcoming from Broadview Books in 2012. She is a Professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa and has taught in France, Prague, Barcelona, and Florence. She will be a visiting writer to RMIT in Australia in 2011.

Joseph Gross holds an MFA from Western Michigan University and writes songs, poems, essays, and stories, some of which have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cider Press Review, Eclectica Magazine, Mid-American Review, and Salamander. He teaches and writes in Kalamazoo, MI, where he lives with his wife, Angela, and their two young children. He can be reached at joe.kalamazoo@yahoo.com.

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright Scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, one of the editors of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005). Her essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in or won prizes at the Cream City Review, Northwest Review, New Letters, the Georgetown Review, Baltimore Review, Arts and Letters, and elsewhere. Her scholarly work on adoption life writing has appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, New Essays on Life Writing and the Body, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, and Winter Verlag. She teaches courses in autobiography, the literature of adoption, and creative nonfiction as an Associate Professor at the University of West Georgia.

Andrew Hood is a photographer, writer, and recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Philadelphia, PA, with his wife and one-year-old son. [End Page 182]

Joanne Jacobson’s work has appeared in such publications as New England Review, The Nation, BOMB, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her most recent book is the memoir Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (2007). She teaches American literature, American studies, and creative writing at Yeshiva College in New York City.

Heather Kirn’s nonfiction has been noted in The Best American Essays series and published in such places as the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Colorado Review. Her poems have appeared most recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, and Cincinnati Review. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio, and is at work...

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