Contributors' Notes: Winter 2012-13
- Contributors' NotesWinter 2012-13
Keith Althaus is the author of two books of poems: Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts Press, 1993) and Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press, 2005). He has recently completed a book-length poem about the Ephrata Cloister. He lives in North Truro, Massachusetts, with his wife, the artist Susan Baker.
Valerie Bandura was born in the former Soviet Union. Her forthcoming collection, Freak Show, is slated for publication in May 2013 from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books. Other recent poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Cimarron Review. She teaches writing at Arizona State University, and lives in Arizona with her husband, fiction writer Patrick Michael Finn, and their son.
Ellen Bass' poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon, 2007) and Mules of Love (BOA, 2002). Her poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, The Sun, The New Republic, and other journals. Her nonfiction books include The Courage to Heal and Free Your Mind. She teaches in the MFA poetry program at Pacific University. ellenbass.com.
Ciaran Berry's first full-length volume, The Sphere of Birds, was published in 2008 by Southern Illinois University Press in North America and by The Gallery Press in Ireland and the U.K. His newer work has appeared recently in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and The Threepenny Review. He teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
James Crews was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Best New Poets 2006 and 2009, Columbia, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. He is the author of three chapbooks: Bending the Knot (Gertrude Press Prize, 2009); One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes (Parallel Press, 2009) and What Has Not Yet Left (Copperdome Prize, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010). His manuscript, The Book of What Stays, won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. He has worked as a salesman of bespoke wallpaper, an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer and an English teacher in rural Oregon. He has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now working on a PhD in Lincoln, Nebraska—which is actually a lot cooler than most people think.
Carl Dennis is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Callings (Penguin, 2010). A recipient of the Pulizer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he lives in Buffalo, New York.
Hilary Vaughn Dobel was raised in Seattle, Washington, and holds degrees from Princeton University and the University of Chicago, as well as an MFA from Columbia University in [End Page 221] poetry and translation. Her work has also appeared in Lana Turner, and she currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Peter Everwine's most recent books are From the Meadow: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburg Press, 2004) and The Countries We Live In, translations of Natan Zach (Tavern Books, 2011). He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Fresno, California.
Kate Flaherty's stories and essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, Louisville Review, and elsewhere. "Heather, 1984" is from her manuscript, My Brief History of Sex Education, which is currently in circulation. Other writing and ranting can be found on her blog Fact or Fiction at kateflaherty.wordpress.com.
Shauna Galante grew up on Long Island and graduated from Emerson College in 2010. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Barry Gifford's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in twenty-eight languages. "The Wicked of the Earth" is an excerpt from The Roy Stories, to be published October 2012 by Seven Stories Press/Random House. Gifford's books Sailor's Holiday and The Phantom Father were each named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and his book Wyoming was named a Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, Ball Lightning, and The Phantom Father. Barry Gifford's recent books include Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels and Sad Stories of the...
