Contributors
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Edward Ardeneaux IV is pursuing a PhD at the University of Arkansas with a focus on the 20th and 21st century novel. His dissertation project will focus on speculative fiction, technology, and the novel form, with a specific emphasis on narrative structure and posthuman identity.
Dr. Grant Bain is an English instructor and the Curriculum Design Specialist at the University of Arkansas, where he has taught for the last nine years. He has previously published on Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and The X-Files. He is currently working on an essay examining Louis Owens’s appropriation of the Southern Gothic.
David Bottoms’s first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Poetry, and The Paris Review, as well as in sixty anthologies and textbooks. He is the author of seven other books of poetry, two novels, and a book of essays and interviews. His most recent book of poems, We Almost Disappear, was released in the fall of 2011. Among his other awards are the Frederick Bock Prize and the Levinson Prize, both from Poetry magazine, an Ingram Merrill Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has given readings at over 200 colleges and universities across the country, as well as the Guggenheim Museum, the Library of Congress, and the American Academy in Rome. He has served as the Richard Hugo Poet-in-Residence at the University of Montana, the Ferrol Sams Distinguished Writer at Mercer University, and the Chaffee Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Atlanta, where he holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. A book of essays on his work, David Bottoms: Critical Essays and Interviews, edited by William Walsh, was published in 2010. He is the recipient of a 2011 Governor’s Award in the Humanities, sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council, and he served for twelve years as Poet Laureate of Georgia.
Ian Dixon completed his PhD on the films of John Cassavetes at The University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts in 2011 where he also earned a Post Graduate Filmmaking Degree. Ian has delivered academic papers internationally and currently lectures in screenwriting and semiotics at Qantm College, Melbourne. This year he delivered the plenary [End Page 320] speech at the CEA conference in Savannah and was invited to form an affiliate organization in Australia. He has directed television for Neighbours, Blue Heelers, and SBS TV (his episode, Wee Jimmy, won a best director award at the San Francisco International Film Festival). Ian Dixon’s debut feature film Crushed screened at Cinema Nova in 2009. Ian has also been funded to write feature films for the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria. Ian also spent over twenty years as an actor (he took over from Guy Pearce to play the lead in Grease). In television, his work can be seen on Underbelly, Rush, City Homicide, Guinevere Jones, Martial Law, Blue Heelers, Stingers, Heartbreak High, and Shadows of the Heart, among others.
Lisa Bouma Garvelink, Professor of English at Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has loved reading and teaching literature for most of her life. She currently continues to read newly uncovered Willa Cather letters and to incorporate them into her writing on Cather’s novels. In recent years, she has had articles published on Cather and on George Eliot in Women’s Studies, The Explicator, and Third Coast.
Katie Piper Greulich is a PhD student in the English Department at Michigan State University. She intends to study the ways in which contemporary poetics revise and engage with nature writing and other eco-critical frameworks.
Jeffrey Gross is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee, where he teaches courses in American literature and...
