Contributors
- Contributors
Beth Alvarado lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her story “¿Qué hora son, mi corazón?” is from Jillian in the Borderlands, a story cycle in progress. Another story from the cycle has appeared in Western Humanities Review. Her memoir, Anthropologies, and the short-fiction collection, Not a Matter of Love, are set in the Sonoran Desert.
Wendy Barker has published five collections of poems, most recently Nothing Between Us, as well as three chapbooks. A recipient of Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, and The Gettysburg Review. She is poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Bonnie Bolling is the editor of Verdad and the author of In the Kingdom of the Sons, winner of the 2011 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Solo Novo, The Cortland Review, and American Literary Review. She earned an MFA at University of California, Riverside. Currently, she lives in Southern California and Bahrain.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the best-selling novel Once Upon a River and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for her story collection American Salvage. Additionally, she has published the novel Q Road and the story collection Women and Other Animals. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and two donkeys.
Ron De Maris is a retired professor of humanities, English, and creative writing from Miami Dade College, where he taught for forty years. His work has appeared in many magazines, including The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry.
Mary Lee Eggart works in colored pencil and watercolor, creating designs based on birds and other natural forms. She exhibits at the Baton Rouge Gallery and LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. Her work has been included in regional [End Page v] and national competitions and is in the collections of the Claiborne Building, Baton Rouge; the New Orleans Hilton Hotel; and the Douglas Manship Collection, Baton Rouge. She is a native and resident of Baton Rouge. She was educated at Louisiana State University, where she received her bachelor and master of fine arts degrees in printmaking. She retired from LSU in 2011, after more than thirty years as a research associate and instructor in cartographic design and scientific illustration in the LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook and the translator of The Fire’s Journey by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio. Last year he was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Nick Holdstock is the author of The Tree That Bleeds, a nonfiction book about life in China’s Xinjiang province. His stories and articles have appeared in London Review of Books, n+1, and the Independent. His first novel, The Casualties, will be published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2015.
Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections Vulgar Remedies and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She teaches creative writing in Pacific University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program.
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis’s chapbook, Aloha, Vaudeville Doll, is forthcoming from dancing girl press. Her second full-length collection, The Rub, won the Elixir Press Editor’s Prize and is due out later this year.
David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His biography Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense.” His most recent poetry collection is The Biscuit Joint.
Joy Ladin is the author of six books of poetry, including The Definition of Joy, Transmigration, and Coming to Life, a Forward Fives award winner. Her memoir, [End Page vi] Through the Door of Life, was a 2012 National...
