Contributors
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20 Windows. 35mm, looted Iraqi Army barracks near Yusufiyah, Iraq, 2003. © Benjamin Busch.
Benjamin Busch is a filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator. His images from Iraq comprise two traveling exhibits, The Art In War (2003) and Occupation (2005), and have served as cover art for Five Points, War, Literature & the Arts, Epiphany, and others. He is also a writer and poet.
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Kazim Ali is a poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Sky Ward (Wesleyan UP). He has published a translation of Water’s Footfall (Omnidawn P) by Sohrab Sepehri, and, with Libby Murphy, L’amour (Open Letter Books) by Marguerite Duras. He is an associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College.
Colby Buzzell was a US Army infantryman in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, where he blogged from the front lines. He is the author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq and Lost in America: A Dead-End Journey. His work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Daily Beast, Washington Post, Penthouse, and on This American Life.
Siobhan Fallon is the author of You Know When the Men Are Gone—listed as a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Public Library, and Janet Maslin of the New York Times—and recipient of a 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award and the 2012 pen Center USA Literary Award in Fiction. Theatrical productions of her stories have been staged in San Francisco, Denver, and Dallas. More of Fallon’s work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, npr’s Morning Edition, Hungton Post, and Military Spouse Magazine. She earned her mfa from the New School in New York City.
Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, and returned to Guatemala to teach literature for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Named [End Page 175] one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, he is the recipient of the prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Polish Boxer (Bellevue Literary P) is the first of his nine novels to be published in English.
Patrick Hicks has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, been a notable mention in Best American Stories, and is the recipient of grants from the Bush Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work with pbs’s Over South Dakota was nominated for an Emmy in 2012. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer and This London (both from Salmon Poetry). A dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, he is the writer-in-residence at Augustana College, as well as a faculty member at Sierra Nevada College’s low-residency mfa program. His first novel, The Commandant of Lubizec (Steerforth/Random House), is forthcoming.
Tamra J. Higgins has taught in the public schools of Vermont for the past nineteen years and recently earned an mfa from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She is president of the Poetry Society of Vermont and is owner and director of Sundog Poetry Retreat. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and is forthcoming in Haiku Society of America Anthology.
Preston Hood’s poems have appeared in The Café Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Rattle, the anthology POEMS FROM MAINE Take Heart, selected by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair, and elsewhere. His first book, A Chill I Understand (Summer Home P), was a finalist for the 2007 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. His book The Hallelujah of Listening (Červená Barva P) won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. He lives in Lyman, Maine, with his wife, Barbara J. Noone.
T. R. Hummer’s most recent book of poems is Ephemeron (LSU P), and his latest book of essays is Available Surfaces (U of Michigan P). A new book of poems, Skandalon (LSU P), is forthcoming.
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