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Countrymen. Acrylic, paper, and maps; 24 x 34 in. © Fidencio Martinez.
Fidencio Martinez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but was raised in North Carolina. His current work examines immigration, the drug war, and socioeconomic issues affecting Mexico. Martinez manipulates newspaper cuttings to refer to the crafts and customs used to celebrate festivals and mourn the dead. He received a bfa from Memphis College of Art in 2013 and is currently pursuing his ma and mfa at the University of Iowa.
Prose
Jack Driscoll’s recent short-story collection, The World of a Few Minutes Ago (Wayne State UP), won the 2012 Society of Midland Writers Award and was named best story collection by ForeWord Reviews. His stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and The Missouri Review, among others, and in the Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches fiction in Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program.
Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s P). Her work has been widely anthologized and appears in publications including Glamour, Salon, New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Post Road, and Bitch Magazine. She has been featured on npr’s Fresh Air, Anderson Cooper Live, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2013 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund artist grant, a 2012 Bread Loaf nonfiction fellowship, and MacDowell Colony fellowships in 2010 and 2011, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (iaia). She splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Mohave Valley, Arizona.
Lisa Batya Feld earned her mfa from Colorado State University. She currently lives and works in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The MacGuffin and Hawaii Review.
Pete Fromm is the author of the novels As Cool As I Am and How All This Started. His novel If Not For This is forthcoming. He is also the author of five story collections, including Dry Rain and Night Swimming. He is on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program. [End Page 187]
Barbara Hurd is the author of seven books, most recently Putting an Ear to the Ground (forthcoming from U of Georgia P). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Bellingham Review, Best American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of an nea Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and five Maryland State Arts Council Awards, she teaches in the Stonecoast mfa program at the University of Southern Maine.
Leyna Krow holds an mfa from Eastern Washington University. Her fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Santa Monica Review, Sou’wester, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Spokane, Washington.
Gary L. McDowell is the author of Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral and American Amen (both Dream Horse P) and is the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal P). His work has appeared in journals such as Bellingham Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West. He is an assistant professor of English at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lia Purpura’s most recent collection of essays is Rough Likeness. Her awards include a 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, nea and Fulbright fellowships, and three Pushcart Prizes. On Looking, her book of essays, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems and essays appear in the New Yorker, New Republic, Orion, Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is writer-in-residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Mahesh Rao was born and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and has worked as a lawyer, academic researcher, and bookseller in the UK. His short fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize, and the Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest. His debut novel is The Smoke Is Rising. He lives in Mysore, India.
Ashley Robertson is a native of Wilmington, Delaware, who has a special affection for the Southwest. Having spent the greater part of the last decade living in...
