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  • Contributors’ Notes

Steve Almond is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently the story collection God Bless America (Lookout Books).

Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea (University of Iowa Press) and The Hartford Book (Cleveland State University Poetry Center). Recent poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and A Public Space.

Beth Bachmann is the author of Temper (Pitt Poetry Series), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her new manuscript, Flaw, won the 2011 Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a book in progress. She teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including Elegy (2007), which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Bride of E (2009), both published by Graywolf Press. She teaches in the creative writing [End Page 204] program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2012.

Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (IntuiT House, 2007) and The Frame Called Ruin (forthcoming from New Issues in 2012). Her chapbook Show Me Yours (2010) was awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. Bar-Nadav is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Grace Bauer is the author of Retreats & Recognitions (Lost Horse), Beholding Eye (Custom Words), and The Women At the Well (Portals Press), as well as three chapbooks, and coeditor of the anthology Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals.

Sean Bishop teaches in the mfa Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a former Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow, former Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow, and a founding editor of Better (bettermagazine.org). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Forklift Ohio, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, iO, Ninth Letter, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Danielle Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Literary Review, The New Yorker Book Bench blog, the Atlantic online, Black Clock, The Wolf, and multiple issues of Unsaid, as well as the anthology by Argos Books, Why I Am Not a Painter: a gathering of poems by MFA students in NYC. A recent graduate of NYU’s MFA program in poetry, Blau lives in New York City.

Shane Book’s first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His honors include a New York Times Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.

Sarah Braunstein is the author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W. W. Norton), shortlisted for the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. In 2010, the National Book Foundation named her one of “5 Under 35” fiction writers. Based in Portland, Maine, she is now at work on a second novel and a nonfiction book about suburban adolescence, of which “The Blowjob Whale” is part.

Joel Brouwer is the author of three books of poems, most recently And So (Four Way Books). He teaches at the University of Alabama.

Joseph J. Capista lives with his family in Baltimore. A two-time Maryland State Arts Council grant winner, [End Page 205] his poems have appeared in Slate, Literary Imagination, and Smartish Pace. He teaches at Towson University.

Patricia Caspers is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared most recently in Spillway, The Smoking Poet, and Chest Journal. She lives with her family in central Massachusetts where she edits poetry for Prick of the Spindle.

Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta, was published by The University of Georgia Press. Her first book, Circle, was published by the Southern Illinois University Press. Her poems have appeared in various publications. She lives in Southern California and...

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