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  • About the Contributors

Faye Rapoport DesPres’s essays have appeared in Ascent, damselfly press, Eleven Eleven, Hamilton Stone Review, International Gymnast Magazine, InterfaithFamily.com, Prime Number Magazine, and Writer Advice. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Writer’s Chronicle (interview with Michael Steinberg), Animal Life, and other publications. Faye holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College.

Lucy Ferriss is the author of a memoir, Unveiling the Prophet, as well as six books of fiction. Her novels The Lost Daughters and The Woman Who Bought the Sky will both be out in 2012. Other recent work appears in American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Southern Review. She is writer-inresidence at Trinity College in Connecticut.

Leigh Gilmore is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation, and she is a coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism. She has published articles on autobiography and feminist theory in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Biography, American Imago, and Genders, among others, and in numerous collections. She is completing a book on contemporary issues in life narrative.

Garth Greenwell lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he teaches at the American College of Sofia. His first book, Mitko, appeared earlier this year. [End Page 147]

Jim Grimsley is the author of many works of fiction and drama, including Winter Birds, Dream Boy, Mr. Universe and Other Plays, and other titles. He teaches fiction and playwriting at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

J. C. Hallman is the author of several books, most recently In Utopia. He is the editor of The Story about the Story, a collection of “creative criticism.” He can be reached through his website, jchallman.com.

Elizabeth Hilts earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Fairfield University. Formerly the editor of an alternative newsweekly, and editorial director for direct-mail companies, she is the author of four humor books and an adjunct professor at local colleges and universities. She is working on her memoir.

Alexandra Huddleston is an international documentary photographer whose most recent work focuses on exploring the transformation of traditional religious practices in the twenty-first century. In 2007 she spent a year in Timbuktu photographing the town’s legacy of traditional Islamic scholarship, supported by a Fulbright Grant. Her current work explores a pilgrim’s life along the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, and the 88 Temple Henro in Shikoku, Japan.

Cassandra Kircher teaches nonfiction at Elon University. Her personal essays have appeared in Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment, Front Range Review, Red Mountain Review, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and others. In 2009 she won the Notes from the Field Contest sponsored by Iowa State University. She is completing a manuscript on the adoption of her daughter from Khabarovsk, Russia.

Judith Kitchen is the author of two collections of essays, a novel, and a book of criticism. A third collection of essays, Half in Shade, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2012. In addition, she has edited three collections of short nonfiction pieces (In Short, In Brief, and Short Takes) for W.W. Norton. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where she serves on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA at Pacific Lutheran University. [End Page 148]

Naton Leslie’s essays have appeared in the North American Review, Missouri Review, Florida Review, Xavier Review, and anthologies such as The Best American Essays. He received a New York Fellowship for the Arts in the category of literary nonfiction in 2003, and teaches creative writing and literature at Siena College near Albany, in upstate New York.

Mark Lindquist is a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. He lives in Iowa City and is currently working on a memoir about life and death on the edge of the Boise foothills, insomnia, and classic rock.

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and The Burning House. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Story Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Lo-ball, Seattle Review, and elsewhere. He has taught in the writing programs...

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