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Zacatecas 1. Archival pigment print photography, 17 × 24 in. 2010. © Francisco Souto.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a bfa from Herron School of Art and a mfafrom The Ohio State University. His honors include more than forty-five national and international awards and grants, including a special prize at the 7th International Triennial of Prints in Japan, a selected prize at the 12th International Biennial of Prints and Drawing in China, and the International Award at the British International Print Exhibition. Souto has been artist-in-residence in many national and international venues, and his prints and drawings have been published in many catalogs, magazines, and books. In the last nine years, his work has been exhibited in more than eighty venues.
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Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of the story collection How to Leave Hialeah, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the John Gardner Prize, the Devil’s Kitchen Award in Prose, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald, the New Times, and the Latinidad List. A winner of an O. Henry Prize and a Bread Loaf Fellow, she held the Picador Guest Professorship in American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Leipzig in Germany for the winter 2013–14 term. Her debut novel, Magic City Relic, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in summer 2015.
Debra Gwartney is the author of a memoir, Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She is co-editor, with Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Debra has received fellowships from Literary Arts, Hedgebrook, UCross, the Oregon Arts Council, and others. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including the New York Times Modern Love column, Salon, Triquarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, and American Scholar. She teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency mfa program.
Praveen Krishna practices law in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. His fiction has appeared in Asymptote. [End Page 182]
Jacob Newberry is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at Florida State University, where he holds the University and Kingsbury Fellowships. Winner of the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest in Nonfiction and the Southwest Review’s 2012 McGinnis-Ritchie Prize for Best Fiction, he has also been awarded scholarships and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Fulbright Foundation. Two essays were recently listed as “Notables” in Best American Essays 2013. His nonfiction, poetry, and fiction have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Originally from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, he received an ma in French literature from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Stephen Rosen’s short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including The Iowa Review, Stiller’s Pond: New Fiction from the Upper Midwest, Snake Nation Review, and The William and Mary Review. He is the recipient of a Loft-McKnight Award for Fiction. He lives with his wife, Janet, in northern Minnesota.
Anis Shivani’s books include The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, My Tranquil War and Other Poems, Anatolia and Other Stories, and the forthcoming novel Karachi Raj. He is currently at work on a novel called Abruzzi, 1936, a poetry book called Empire, and a new book of criticism called Plastic Realism: Neoliberal Discourse in New American Fiction. New work appears or is forthcoming in Salmagundi, Yale Review, Boston Review, Antioch Review, Georgia Review, AGNI, Epoch, and elsewhere.
Ilana Sichel lives in New York, where she works as an editor, writer, and translator. She has won a Henfield Prize and a residency from the Jentel Foundation, and her short fiction was selected as a finalist in Narrative’s 30 Below Contest. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and her mfa in fiction writing from the University of Michigan.
Dariel Suarez is a Cuban-born writer who came to the United States in 1997. He earned his mfa in fiction at Boston University, where he was a Global Fellow. Dariel has taught creative writing at Boston University, Boston Arts Academy, and Boston University’s Metropolitan...
