Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Amy Benson is the author of The Sparkling-Eyed Boy, winner of the 2004 Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction. Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Seneca Review, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, and Hotel Amerika. She teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University.
Nicholas Benson has previously published translations of poetry by Attilio Bertolucci and Aldo Palazzeschi in New England Review. His translation of Bertolucci’s Winter Journey was published in 2005 by Free Verse editions of Parlor Press, and he was awarded a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop (1831–1904) was an intrepid Victorian traveler whose numerous books include The Englishwoman in America (1856), The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands (1875), A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879), Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), and The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883).
C. P. Boyko lives and writes in Victoria, BC, Canada. He is the author of Blackouts (Emblem Editions, 2009), a collection of short stories.
Roger Camp’s photographs have been published in more than a hundred magazines, including Darkroom Photography, American Photo, Popular Photography, Graphis, and North American Review. He is the author of three books, Butterflies in Flight (Thames & Hudson, 2002), 500 Flowers (Dewi Lewis Media, 2005), and Heat (Charta/DAP, 2009). As a teacher of photography and/or literature, he has held positions at Eastern Illinois University, the University of Iowa, Columbus College of Art & Design, and the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. A recipient of the Lecia Medal of Excellence, he has also been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown.
Michael Coffey has published three books of poems as well as stories and essays in the Republic of Letters, Conjunctions, and New England Review. He is co-editorial director at Publishers Weekly and lives in New York City.
Michael Collier’s sixth book, An Individual History, will be published by W. W. Norton in spring 2012. In 2009, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Jordan Davis is poetry editor of the Nation. His most recent publication is POD | Poems on Demand (Greying Ghost, 2011).
Theodore Deppe is the author of four collections of poetry: Orpheus on the Red Line (Tupelo, 2009), Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2002), The Wanderer King (Alice James Books, 1996), and Children of the Air (Alice James Books, 1990). His work has received two fellowships from the NEA and a Pushcart Prize. Since 2000, he has lived mostly on the west coast of Ireland, and he coordinates Stonecoast in Ireland, part of the Stonecoast M.F.A. Program in Maine. [End Page 187]
Jennifer Grotz is the author of two poetry collections from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Needle (2011) and Cusp (2003). Her poems, reviews, and translations appear widely in journals and anthologies. She teaches at the University of Rochester and serves as assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Joshua Harmon’s most recent book is Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie (University of Akron Press, 2011). Other essays from his work-in-progress, The Annotated Mix-Tape, have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, the Believer, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Open Letters Monthly, and New England Review.
David Hernandez is a recipient of a 2011 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. His third collection of poetry, Hoodwinked, won the 2010 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books. For more information, visit his website at www.DavidAHernandez.com.
Maura High lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, where she works as a freelance copy editor and translator. She also coordinates controlled burn crews for the North Carolina chapter of the Nature Conservancy and spends as much time as possible out in the woods.
Charles Holdefer is an American writer currently based in Brussels. His fiction and essays have appeared in North American Review, Antioch Review, World Literature Today, and other magazines. He has also published three novels, and...
