Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Gerard Helferich is the author of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta (Counterpoint, 2008), which received the 2008 Author’s Award for nonfiction from the Mississippi Library Association. His other books include Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912 (Lyons, 2013), Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya (Lyons, 2012), and Humboldt’s Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World (Gotham, 2004). A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he publishes book reviews in the Wall Street Journal.
Leslie Jamison is a novelist and essayist with recent work in the Oxford American, Harper’s, and the Believer. Her first collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, from which “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain” is taken, is out from Graywolf this April.
Gina LeVay holds an MFA in Photo, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Europe, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museo d’art Contemporanea Roma, American Museum of Natural History, Hous Projects NYC, and Photo España. LeVay is an alumna and current staff member of The Eddie Adams Workshop. Her female matador portfolio has been issued in a fine art edition.
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry (Harper, 1997), Niagara Falls All Over Again (Dial, 2002), The Giant’s House (Dial, 2007), An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (Back Bay Books, 2010), and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Dial, 2014). She teaches creative writing at the University of Texas, Austin.
Jason Motlagh is an award- winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Formerly Time magazine’s Kabul correspondent, he has reported from more than forty countries and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Economist, and VQR. In 2010, he won the National Magazine Award for Digital News Reporting for “Sixty Hours of Terror,” a four-part series in VQR on the Mumbai terror attacks. He has since founded Blackbeard Films, an Oakland, California- based company that produces news documentaries for the Al Jazeera English and America networks. [End Page 7]
Carlene Bauer is the author of the novel Frances and Bernard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) and the memoir Not That Kind of Girl (Harper, 2010). Her writing has appeared in n+1, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Salon, and Elle.
Charles Bertram has been a photographer at the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky for thirty-six years. The Kentucky native has had photos published in Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Kids, and other major publications.
Julia Cooke is a frequent contributor to Guernica and Condé Nast Traveller (UK) and has written for the Village Voice, the Atlantic, Metropolis, Monocle, and the Wall Street Journal. She has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and Columbia University and teaches writing at the New School. “Waiting for Exile” is an adapted excerpt from her first book, The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba (Seal Press, 2014).
Michael Croley has won awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Key West Literary Seminars, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His stories have regularly appeared in Narrative, where he was named to their list of “Best New Writers” in 2011. He has been published in the Paris Review Daily, Blackbird, the Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He teaches creative writing at Denison University.
Rita Dove, former US Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer Prize recipient in poetry, is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Among her nine poetry books are American Smooth (Norton, 2004) and Sonata Mulattica (Norton, 2009).
Elizabeth Eshelman is a writer based in Columbus, Ohio. She has an MFA in fiction from George Mason University, where she was awarded a thesis fellowship. She writes a regular column about tubas for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and her critical work has appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle. She is currently finishing a novel.
Jiayang Fan is on the editorial staff of the New Yorker. She regularly writes...
