Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Rick Bass is the author of thirty-one books, including the forthcoming novel, All The Land To Hold Us. He lives in the Yaak Valley of northwest Montana, where he is a board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies.
Joseph Bathanti is poet laureate of North Carolina and the author of seven books of poetry including This Metal, winner of the Oscar Arnold Young Award, and Restoring Sacred Art, winner of the Roanoke Chowan Prize. His novels are East Liberty and Coventry, and his book of stories, The High Heart, won the Spokane Prize. He teaches at Appalachian State University.
Megan Mayhew Bergman lives on a small farm in rural Vermont with her veterinarian husband and two daughters. Her story collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner), was a Huffington Post Best Book of 2012, a Barnes and Noble Discover pick, and an indie Next pick. Her novel, Shepherd, Wolf, will be published in 2014.
Ciaran Berry’s debut poetry collection, The Sphere of Birds, was published by Southern illinois University Press in North America and by The gallery Press in ireland and the United Kingdom. New work appears in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and the Threepenny Review. He teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Karina Borowicz’s poetry collection, The Bees Are Waiting, was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and has been named a 2013 Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared in AGNI, the Southern Review, and Columbia Poetry Review, and her translations have been featured on Poetry Daily.
Joel Brouwer is the author of three books of poems, Exactly What Happened, Centuries, and And So. He teaches at the University of Alabama.
Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize. Her poems appear most recently in Sou’wester, Seneca Review, Iron Horse, Third Coast, and Drunken Boat. She is a PhD candidate and poetry editor for Quarterly West at the University of Utah.
Clyde Edgerton is the author of the recent book Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers (Little, Brown), as well as a memoir and ten novels. He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Ansel Elkins is a recipient of the 2011 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the 2012 James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, the Believer, Best New Poets 2011, Fugue, Greensboro Review, and the Southern Review, and are forthcoming in the American Scholar. [End Page 223]
Josh Emmons is the author of two novels, Prescription for a Superior Existence and The Loss of Leon Meed. He lives in Philadelphia.
Dawn Gardner is a London-based graphic designer specializing in print and illustration. Her digital collages incorporate vintage magazines, books, and other ephemera, and reinvent forgotten imagery into new works of art.
Arna Bontemps Hemenway is the author of the story collection Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande). His fiction appears in A Public Space, the Missouri Review, the Seattle Review, and Bat City Review, among others, and has been noted in both The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, the John C. Schupes Fellowship, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference Peter Taylor Scholarship. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an assistant professor of English in creative writing at Baylor University.
Richie Hofmann is the recipient of a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His poems appear in Ploughshares, Poetry, the New Republic, and the New Yorker, among others. He is pursuing his MFA in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
Cynthia Huntington’s most recent poetry collection, Heavenly Bodies, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The poems in this issue are from a work in progress, Terra Nova. She...
