Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
ellen bass is the author of Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love, which won the Lambda Literary Award. She has been awarded the Missouri Review’s Larry Levis Award, the Greensboro Poetry Prize, and the New Letters Poetry Prize. Her nonfiction books include The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, which has sold over a million copies and has been translated into ten languages. She teaches in the low residency MFA program at Pacific University.
sarah becan is a comics artist, illustrator, and designer based in Chicago, and the creator of I Think You’re Sauceome, a food-centric, autobiographical webcomic. Her work has appears in various publications, including Saveur, Truthout, and the collaborative Cartozia Tales. She was awarded a Xeric Grant and a Stumptown Trophy for her first graphic novel, The Complete Ouija Interviews, and her second graphic novel, Shuteye, was released in 2012.
ron carlson’s most recent novel is Return to Oakpine. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and other magazines. He is director of the graduate program in fiction at the University of California, Irvine.
maryann corbett lives in Saint Paul and works for the Minnesota Legislature. Her third book, Mid Evil, won the Richard Wilbur Award and will be published late in 2014. Her poems, essays, and translations appear widely. Recent work is in Barrow Street, Southwest Review, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry, and is forthcoming in Rattle, Measure, American Arts Quarterly, and Think Journal.
camas davis has been an editor and writer at National Geographic Adventure, Saveur, and Portland Monthly. In 2009 she founded the Portland Meat Collective, a one-of-a-kind meat school and culinary resource, and this year launched a nonprofit, the Meat Collective Alliance, to help spread her model of meat education. A story about this experience was recently featured on This American Life. She is currently working on a book.
alison hawthorne deming is the author of four poetry collections and four works of nonfiction. Science and Other Poems, her first book, received the Walt Whitman Award. Her writing appears in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Orion and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007. A former Stegner Fellow, Deming is professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona.
jehanne dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including Red Army Red and Stateside. In 2015, University of New Mexico Press will publish her fifth book, The Arranged Marriage. She is the director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and an associate professor of creative writing at Washington College.
camille t. dungy is author of Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison; editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry; and coeditor of From the Fishouse’s anthology. Her honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, a California Book Award silver medal, [End Page 186] the Crab Orchard Open Book Prize, and an NEA fellowship. Dungy is currently a professor at Colorado State University.
rhina p. espaillat has published nine full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays, and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish. Her original work and her translations appear in numerous journals, in over sixty anthologies, and on dozens of websites, and have earned national and international awards.
matthew gavin frank is the author of three poetry books, and three nonfiction books, the latest of which is Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer. He is the nonfiction editor of Passages North and favors Busch Light for his garden-slug beer traps.
elizabeth graeber is a freelance illustrator living in Washington, DC. She draws with a mix of pen, ink, watercolor, and gouache paint. Original drawings and paintings of food are available in her Food on Paper shop.
j. p. grasser’s poetry explores the diverse regions he has called home, most persistently his family’s fish hatchery in Brady, Nebraska. He studied English and creative writing at Sewanee and received...
