Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014). Other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry; Small Knots (WordTech, 2004); and the chapbook Geography (Floating Bridges, 2003). She is the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press and lives in a small seaside town in the Northwest where she is an avid mountain biker and paddleboarder. Her website is www.agodon.com.
W. C. Brownell (1851–1928) was an American literary essayist who also served for forty years as an editor at Scribners. He began as a reporter and editor at the New York World and later wrote articles on literature for the Nation. His first books were French Traits (1889) and French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture (1892), followed by Victorian Prose Masters (1901) and American Prose Masters (1909), which remains his best known work. In his later years, Brownell published Criticism (1914), Standards (1917), The Genius of Style (1924), and Democratic Distinction in America (1927).
Steve Dolph is the founding editor of Calque, a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer’s Scars was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award. He lives in Philadelphia where he spends his summers rooting for the Phillies.
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including, most recently, Red Army Red (TriQuarterly, 2012) and Stateside (TriQuarterly, 2010). In 2015, University of New Mexico Press will publish her fifth book of poems, The Arranged Marriage. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. She is the Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an associate professor of creative writing at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
William Fargason received a BA in English from Auburn University. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New Orleans Review, Eclectica Magazine, Grist, Nashville Review, Bayou Magazine, New World Writing, and other publications. He is currently a poetry MFA candidate at the University of Maryland, where he teaches creative writing. He lives with himself in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Rebecca Morgan Frank’s first book, Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012), was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and she received the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for her manuscript-in-progress. The editor of the online magazine Memorious, she is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. [End Page 194]
Robert E. Goodwin is a member of the faculty of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the author of The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama (1998) and the translator of Markus Werner’s novel On the Edge (2012).
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.'s work has appeared in Little Star, Poetry International, Mantis, Kenyon Review Online, Harvard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Her translations of classical and contemporary Persian poetry include The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shiraz (White Cloud Press, 1995) and Iran: Poems of Dissent (Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, 2013). Four Way Books will publish her series of poems centered in South India in 2015. She holds a BA and JD from Harvard University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her website is www.elizabethtgrayjr.com.
David Guterson is the author of ten books, including the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award. His most recent books include the poetry collection Songs for a Summons (Lost Horse Press, 2013) and Descent: A Memoir of Madness (Vintage, 2013). A new collection of short stories, Problems with People, is forthcoming from Knopf in June.
Joshua Harmon’s collections of essays, The Annotated Mixtape, and short fiction, History of Cold Seasons, will be published simultaneously by Dzanc Books in November 2014; portions of both these books first appeared in New England Review. He lives in western Massachusetts.
Steven Heighton is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and fiction reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. His novel Afterlands (Knopf Canada...
