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  • Contributor Biographies

Jason Allen has an MFA from Pacific University and is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at Binghamton University. His work appears in Passages North, Paterson Literary Review, Contemporary American Voices, Ragazine, and The Molotov Cocktail. He hopes to meet Tom Waits and buy him a cup of coffee.

Anonymous: “Exegesis: The Tempest” is from The Book of Hulga, a book of poems inspired by Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People.” “In the operation of writing, the hand which holds the pen and the body and soul attached to it are things infinitely small in the order of nothingness.”--Simone Weil

Jenna Bazzell has an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She holds three honorable mentions for her poems from the Academy of American Poets and has been published in Crab Orchard Review, cream city review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, Naugatuck River Review, Southern Indiana Review, and Sou’wester. She is the associate editor of Cimarron Review.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press). Bird poems have appeared in such places as Spork, Fence, Denver Quarterly and Ping-Pong. He teaches writing at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

Nathan Breitling (b.1986–d.2014) was a native of the Chicagoland area. He received his BA in Creative Writing from Illinois Wesleyan University and his MFA at Columbia College Chicago. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, and Phantom Limb.

Catherine Bresner’s poetry has been published in The Pinch, H_ NGM_N, Burntdistrict, Handsome Journal, Yemassee, and has poetry forthcoming in BOAAT. Currently she’s pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she is the coordinating editor for The Seattle Review and an intern at Wave Books. [End Page 1]

Nancy Naomi Carlson is a winner of grants from the NEA, Maryland Arts Council, and Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper, translations of Abdourahman Waberi are forthcoming from Seagull Books, distributed by the U Chicago Press.

René Char (1907–1988) was hailed by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as “the greatest French poet of the 20th century.” He enjoyed a literary career of over sixty years, and was a hero of the French Resistance and a militant anti-nuclear protester. His work is infused with mystery and music.

Kim Chinquee is the author of the collections Pretty, Oh Baby, and Pistol. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including NOON, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Pushcart Prize, and others. She is associate editor of New World Writing, senior editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal), and associate professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo State.

Franklin K.R. Cline’s poems have been featured in Banango Street, Matter, Oyez Review and Word Riot. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin. He lives in Milwaukee with three cats and his wife, Rachel Kincaid. His favorite wrestler is Mick Foley.

Nandini Dhar is the author of the chapbook Lullabies Are Barbed Wire Nations (Two of Cups Press, 2014). Co-editor of the online journal, Elsewhere, she hails from Kolkata and divides her time between her hometown and Miami, Florida. Her poems have been published or forthcoming at Natural Bridge, PANK, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere.

Zaccaria Fulton is a graduate of the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His work has appeared in journals such as Conduit, The Gettysburg Review, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, and PANK. He lives in Los Angeles. [End Page 2]

Jim Goar grew up in Tucson, Arizona. He is the author of The Dustbowl (Shearsman Books, 2014), The Louisiana Purchase (Rose Metal Press, 2011), Seoul Bus Poems (Reality Street, 2010), and the chapbook, Whole Milk (Effing Press, 2006).

Shasta Grant received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Jelly Bucket, Wigleaf, mojo, Corium Magazine, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Whiskey Paper, and elsewhere...

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