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Contributors
Idris Anderson’s first collection of poems, Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee, was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She won a Pushcart Prize in 2010 and a special mention in the 2012 Pushcart anthology. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Hudson Review, and The Nation. She recently won the first Arts & Letters Prime award. She was born and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and moved to the San Francisco area almost two decades ago.
Ian Bassingthwaighte is a writer and photographer living in Boston. He was a Fulbright fellow in fiction to Egypt, where he recently “finished” his first novel. He is now endlessly editing it.
Chard Deniord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth, Night Mowing, Sharp Golden Thorn, and Asleep in the Fire. He also published a book of essays and interviews with seven senior American poets, Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth Century American Poets. He is the cofounder of the New England College MFA program in poetry and a professor of English at Providence College. He lives in Putney, Vermont.
Deborah Flanagan’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, FIELD, and The Gettysburg Review. Her manuscript Or, Gone won the 2012 Snowbound Chapbook Poetry Award from Tupelo Press. At the Academy of American Poets, she helped create the Online Poetry Classroom. She lives in the Lower East Side in New York City.
Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005 was a finalist for the National Book Award. Recent collections include Ocean Effects and Whirl Is King. His translation of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series.
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the author of six books, including the novel Triburbia and story collection NowTrends. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. [End Page v]
Henry Hart has published critical studies of Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, and Geoffrey Hill, as well as a biography of James Dickey and three books of poetry. He recently completed the manuscript of a fourth collection of poetry, “Orpheus Among Familiar Ghosts.” He teaches English at the College of William & Mary, where he is the Mildred and J. B. Hickman Professor of Humanities.
Steven Harvey is the author of three books of personal essays: A Geometry of Lilies, Lost in Translation, and Bound for Shady Grove. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Young Harris College and a member of the nonfiction faculty in the Ashland University MFA program in creative writing. “The Vanishing Point” is a chapter from a memoir called “The Book of Knowledge and Wonder.”
Katherine Heiny’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, and The Antioch Review; presented on Selected Shorts on NPR; and performed off-Broadway. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
John Kinsella’s most recent volume of poetry is Jam Tree Gully. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.
Lance Larsen, the poet laureate of Utah, has published four collections, most recently Genius Loci. His poems and essays appear widely. He has received a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A professor at Brigham Young University, he recently directed a study abroad program in Madrid.
Peter Lasalle is the author of several books of fiction, most recently a novel, Mariposa’s Song. A new story collection, What I Found Out About Her, is forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press. His fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Zoetrope: All Story, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. He divides his time between Austin, Texas, and Narragansett in his native Rhode Island.
Angie Macri was born and raised in southern Illinois. Her recent work appears in Natural Bridge and Crazyhorse. An Arkansas Arts Council fellow, she teaches in Little Rock. [End Page vi]
Erika Meitner is the author of Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls and Ideal Cities, which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The American Poetry Review. She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.
Jeredith Merrin is the author of two collections of poetry, Shift and Bat Ode, and a book of criticism, An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. Her essays, reviews, and poems have been published in The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, and Slate.
Susan Laughter Meyers is the author of My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass, which received the Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize and will be published this autumn. Her collection Keep and Give Away won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared recently in Southern Poetry Review, 2013 Poet’s Market, and North Carolina Literary Review.
David Moolten is a physician specializing in transfusion medicine. He writes and practices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His most recent book of verse, Primitive Mood, won the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press.
Chinelo Okparanta was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Granta, The Kenyon Review, and The Iowa Review. She has a collection of stories forthcoming from Granta Books (United Kingdom) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (United States). Her debut novel, tentatively titled Under the Udara Trees, will shortly follow. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is currently the Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University.
Kevin Prufer is the author of five books of poems, the most recent of which are In a Beautiful Country and National Anthem, named one of the five best poetry books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. His next book, Churches, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He is editor-at-large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.
Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s book, A Mind Like This, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Poetry and was published last September. [End Page vii]
Thomas Reiter’s most recent book of poems is Catchment. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and The Sewanee Review.
Alison Rossiter studied visual art at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Banff School of Fine Arts (now the Banff Centre). Her photography can be found in many major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Alison lives and works in New Jersey and New York City.
Philip Schultz’s memoir is My Dyslexia. His most recent poetry collection is The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems, and his collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He founded and directs The Writers Studio, a private school for poetry and fiction writing in Manhattan, with branches in Tucson, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and online.
Carrie Shipers has published poems in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and North American Review. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ghost-Writing and Rescue Conditions, and a full-length collection, Ordinary Mourning.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born in California. She earned an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. After teaching English composition in Tucson for several years, she lives in Los Angeles, and is training to become a yoga instructor. Her collection of essays, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White, will be published by the University of Iowa Press this spring.
Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, Nesting Dolls, and The List of Dangers. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and The Iowa Review.
Brian Swann has two books forthcoming: In Late Night, from Johns Hopkins University Press, and Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, Song, from the University of Nebraska Press. [End Page viii]
Greg Wrenn’s first book of poems, Centaur, was awarded the 2013 Brittingham Prize and will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in spring 2013. His work has appeared in New England Review, The American Poetry Review, and The Yale Review. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, he currently is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. [End Page ix]
