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  • Notes on Contributors

Robert Bagg has published several books of poetry, most recently The Tandem Ride and Other Excursions: Poems 1955–2010 (Spiritus Mundi Press, 2010) and translations of plays by Sophocles and Euripides. He is currently writing a critical biography of Richard Wilbur.

MICHAEL BECOTTE is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. His work is in the collections of the James A. Michener Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He has been awarded two Individual Artists Fellowships from the NEA and two Individual Artists Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.

Joseph J. Capista has published poems in Ploughshares, Slate, and Smartish Pace. He teaches writing at Towson University.

William J. Cobb is the author of two novels, The Fire Eaters and Goodnight, Texas. His story in this issue is from his new collection The Lousy Adult, which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in Fall 2013.

Philip Dacey is a three-time winner of Pushcart Prizes, and is the author of eleven books, most recently Vertebrae Rosaries: 50 Sonnets (2009) and Mosquito Operas (2010). His twelfth book, Gimme Five, won the Blue Light Press 2012 Book Award and will appear in 2013.

Stephen Dixon’s thirtieth book of fiction, the novel His Wife Leaves Him, will be published in June 2013 by Fantagraphics Books.

Michael Fulop lives in Baltimore with his wife and children.

Jane Gillette has published short fiction in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and The Michigan Quarterly Review among others. She has won a Laurence Prize and an O. Henry Award.

Jack L. B. Gohn, when not practicing law, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and an occasional book reviewer.

John Hart was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, and currently resides in Winter Park, Florida. His work has appeared in the Antioch Review, Southern Review, and the Washington Square Review. [End Page 436]

John Meredith Hill lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife and their large dog. He teaches at the University of Scranton.

Jefferson Hunter, The Hopkins Review’s film critic, is the Helen and Laura Sledd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.

X. J. Kennedy is the author of In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems and the translator of The Bestiary of Guillaume Apollinaire, both from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

David Mcloghlin is the author of Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2012). He won second prize in the 2008 Patrick Kavanagh Awards and an Irish Arts Council Bursary in 2006. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in New York City.

Stanley Plumly’s collection of poems, Old Heart, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and his Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography appeared that same year. His essay in this issue is from the first chapter of his forthcoming book The Immortal Evening.

Jay Rogoff writes about dance for The Hopkins Review and Ballet Review. He has published four books of poems, most recently, The Art of Gravity (LSU 2011). LSU will bring out his new collection, Venera, 2014. He teaches at Skidmore College and spent fall 2012 in London, where he’s been reporting on the dance scene for The Hopkins Review.

Tori Sharpe’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southwest Review, Blackbird, Southern Humanities Review, Plieades, Tar River Poetry, and the Louisville Review. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas and on faculty at Southern Methodist University.

Cheryl Whitehead’s poems have appeared in Measure, Calyx, and Crab Orchard Review among others. She has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Prize and the Morton Marr Poetry Prize. In 2011 she received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Sewanee School of Letters.

Robley Wilson has published three poetry collections, most recently Everything Paid For (University Press of Florida). His novella, Teresa Frechette...

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