Contributors
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Rachel Ida Buff is a writer and historian living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her partner, their two daughters, a dog, and various cats. “Duluth” is a piece I wrote over the course of a decade, about history and love and loss. Writing this piece helped me place some of my own ghosts in their proper realm.
Chuck Carlise was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter era. His chapbook, A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs, is forthcoming from Concrete Wolf (2011 contest winner), and his poems and essays have appeared in Southern Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry, and others. He is currently a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Houston and is a former nonfiction editor of Gulf Coast.
Kelly Forsythe is currently living and writing in Chicago, where she works with Wave Books long-distance and as a freelance consultant for The Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, and elimae.
Stephen Gibson is the author of four poetry collections: Paradise (Miller Williams Prize finalist, University of Arkansas Press, 2011), Fres coes (Idaho Prize for Poetry, Lost Horse Press, 2009), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/Intuit House book prize, 2006), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen, 2001). The poem in this issue is from a book in progress called “The Garden of Earthly Delights, a Scrambled Abecedarian.”
Ross Losapio is a New Jersey native and graduate of Loyola University Maryland. Currently, he attends the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His poems have appeared in Interrobang?! Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Milk Money, and the Emerson Review, among others, as well as in Off Line, a 2010 anthology of New Jersey poets. He has also self-published a chapbook titled The Measure of Healing.
Richard Luftig is a professor of educational psychology and special education at Miami University in Ohio. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semifinalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally [End Page 164] in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong, and India. His third chapbook was published by Dos Madres Press.
Dennis McFadden lives and writes in an old farmhouse called Mount joy on Bliss Road, just up Peaceable Street from Harmony Corners in upstate New York. “Diamond Alley,” from his collection, Hart’s Grove (Colgate University Press, June 2010), was selected for inclusion in Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Mystery Stories 2011, and his fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including the Missouri Review, New England Review, the Massachusetts Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crazyhorse, CutBank, and the South Carolina Review.
Ted McLoof is from Midland Park, New Jersey, and teaches fiction at the University of Arizona. His stories are about people who suffer from arrested development, usually while watching Arrested Development and listening to Arrested Development. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Gertrude Press, Short Story America, and Trillium.
Howard Price’s first published poem appeared in 2009 in Rattle and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Morro Bay, California.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza poet from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, México. She is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico in poetry and will be the new poetry coeditor for Blue Mesa Review. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Caper Literary Journal, the Acentos Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review.
Don Schofield’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous American journals, including Partisan Review, New England Review, and Poets and Writers, as well as in journals in Europe and Asia. The recipient of the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Award, he has also received honors from, among others, the State University of New York, Anhinga Press, Southern California Anthology, and Princeton University, where he was a Stanley J. Seeger Writer-in-Residence. His poetry volumes include Of Dust, a chapbook from March Street Press (1991); Approximately Paradise, a book-length collection (University Press of Florida, 2002); the...
