Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Naja Marie Aidt, born in Greenland, moved to Copenhagen at seven years of age. She debuted in 1991, and has written many poetry and short-story collections as well as plays, children’s books, song lyrics, and the screenplay for the feature film Strings (2005). In 2008 she received the Nordic Council’s Literature Award for Bavian (Baboon), which has been translated worldwide. Currently she lives in Brooklyn.
Martin Aitken holds a PhD in linguistics and gave up university tenure to translate literature and listen to the Fall. His translations of Danish and English literature have appeared in book form and in many literary journals and periodicals, among them Agni, New Letters, A Public Space, and the Boston Review. He lives and works in Denmark.
Amal al-Jubouri, a native of Iraq, is the author of five collections of poetry in Arabic: Wine from Wounds (1986); Words, Set Me Free! (1994); Enheduanna, Priestess of Exile (1999); 99 Veils (2003); and Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (2008), which will be published in English in November. She lives and writes in Berlin, and is the founder and editor of East West Publishing.
Steve Almond’s third story collection, God Bless America, is just out from Lookout Books. He has also written two previous story collections, a novel, and three nonfiction books, the most recent of which is Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Tin House, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Ecotone, and elsewhere, and has been reprinted in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. He lives outside Boston.
Rick Bass is the author of twenty-six books of fiction and nonfiction, including the forthcoming work of nonfiction The Black Rhinos of Namibia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). He lives with his family in Montana, where he is a board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council (yaakvalley.com).
Sven Birkerts’s newest collection of essays, The Other Walk, has just been published by Graywolf Press. Editor of the journal Agni, based at Boston University, he also directs the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Columbia Poetry Review, the Offending Adam, and Best American Poetry 2011.
P. K. Brask is professor of theater and film at the University of Winnipeg. He has published poetry, short stories, drama, translations, and essays in books and journals. His works include Essays on Kushner’s Angels (Blizzard Publishing, 1995) and a number of radio dramas for CBC Manitoba, as well as plays and libretti, including the libretto for Michael Matthews’s chamber opera, Prince Kasper (2005). [End Page 279]
Robert Olen Butler has published twelve novels and six volumes of short fiction, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His new novel, A Small Hotel, is set in New Orleans. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. He collects paper ephemera.
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine, at the University of Portland, in Oregon. His most recent book is a story collection called Bin Laden’s Bald Spot (Red Hen, 2011).
Denise Duhamel is the author, most recently, of Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is a professor at Florida International University, in Miami.
Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and of Friendship, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Atlantic, and other magazines. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish his forthcoming book Gossip in December.
Anne Gisleson teaches writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students. Her writing has appeared in the Believer, the Oxford American, and other magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including Best American Nonrequired Reading and Life in the...
