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  • Notes on Contributors

Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty as a Marine and CIA officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He spent a year as a White House Fellow and currently splits his time between Washington, DC, and southern Turkey, where he writes on the Syrian Civil War. His work has appeared in Politico and the NewerYork, and his debut novel is forthcoming from Scribner. “Charlie Balls” is his first published story.

Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 award. Her debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W. W. Norton. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on a novel.

Jan Martijn Burger is a graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, and the author of Uitke and the Lucky Penny as well as other cartoon books. He is a founding member of Paperhand Puppet Intervention, a puppet theater company based in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, and has worked with Bread and Puppet Theater, Art and Revolution, and the Shoddy Puppet Co.

Angela Carter, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works, was born in Sussex in 1940. When she published her first novel, Shadow Dance, in 1966, she was immediately recognized as one of Britain’s most original writers. Eight other novels followed, as well as four collections of short stories and two books of nonfiction. She was awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for The Magic Toyshop, the Somerset Maugham Award for Several Perceptions, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Nights at the Circus, and the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award for The Bloody Chamber, in which “The Company of Wolves” appeared. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film The Company of Wolves, based on her short story. Carter traveled and taught widely in the United States and Australia but lived in London. In 2008, the Times of London ranked her tenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers.

Austrian photographer Andreas Franke explored and photographed the wreck USS Vandenberg in 2010. He has been in the business for more than twenty years, and Luerzer’s Archive has named him among the two hundred best photographers worldwide. His commercial clients include Ben & Jerry’s, Coca-Cola, Ford, and Heineken. Franke’s jobs have led him to several countries on several continents, as has his passion for diving. In his pictures he crosses the borderline between fantasy and real life.

Abigail Greenbaum lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a visiting assistant professor at Berry College. She holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi. Her stories and essays have also appeared in the Louisville Review, Orion, Grist, Creative Loafing Atlanta, and other places. [End Page 181]

Clarisse Hart directs science outreach and education programs at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. Prior to her work in communication, she was a field ecologist studying spiders, carnivorous plants, and humpback whales (never at the same time). She has an MFA in nonfiction from Emerson College and a BA in environmental studies from Mount Holyoke College. Her recent writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Harvard Gazette, and Worcester Living Magazine. She is currently helping to edit her colleagues’ book Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, to be published in 2014 by Yale University Press.

Lilah Hegnauer is the author most recently of Pantry (forthcoming in 2014 from Hub City Press). She is currently the Amy Clampitt poet in residence in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Cary Holladay is the author of seven volumes of fiction, most recently Horse People: Stories (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) and The Deer in the Mirror (Ohio State University Press, 2013), winner of the OSU Prize in Short Fiction. A native of Virginia, she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories. She and her husband, writer John...

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