Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Samuel Ace is the author of three books of poetry: Normal Sex, Home in three days. Don’t wash., and Stealth, with Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). Most recently his work can be found in Fence, Aufgabe, Versal, Rhino, Volt, Mandorla, The Volta, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.
Indira Allegra is the winner of the Jackson Literary Award and former Lambda Literary Fellow; she has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4, make/shift magazine and artactivistnia.com. Allegra has contributed works to Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West and Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature among others. indiraallegra.com
D. Allen is a queer poet and an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. You can learn more about them on their website, thebodyconnected.com.
Jeffrey Allen is the author of two chapbooks, bone and diamond (H_NGM_N Books 2013) and Simple Universal (Bronze Man Books 2007). His poems can be found in Bodega, Handsome, RHINO, smoking glue gun, and elsewhere. He serves as the Poetry Editor for the online poetry journal phantom limb.
Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea and The Hartford Book. His poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina, and edits the journal Oversound with Liz Countryman.
Once a snot-nosed whippersnapper, Dan Anderson began adolescence as a paperboy. Quickly he grew into a cannon-armed, full-bearded ten-year-old paperman. When not saving the elderly from burning buildings, he teaches literature and writing while wearing nice clothes.
Aaron Anstett’s latest collection is Insofar as Heretofore. His poems recently appeared or will in Another Chicago Magazine, Gargoyle, Mantis, and Zone 3, among others. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Lesley, and children. [End Page 242]
Crisosto Apache is an enrolled Mescalero Apache member from New Mexico. He is an alumnus from the IAIA (1992) where he holds an AFA degree in Creative Writing and where he is currently pursuing his MFA (2015). He earned his BA in English Writing from the Metropolitan State University of Denver (2013).
Aaron Apps is the author of Intersex (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2015) and Dear Herculine, winner of the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press. He is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at Brown University.
Britt Ashley is a genderqueer femme from Texas who makes poems and biscuits. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her handsome husbian and an assortment of well-coiffed animals. Her work is supported by fellowships from Indiana University where she is Editor-in-Chief of Indiana Review.
Cameron Awkward-Rich is a PhD candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University and on staff at Muzzle Magazine. You can find his poems in The Seattle Review, The Journal, and elsewhere, including his forthcoming chapbook, Transit (Button Poetry, 2015). You can find him on public transit somewhere.
A Spanish professor at Lake Forest College, Lois Baer Barr has published books, articles, and reviews on Spanish and Latin American literature. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for fiction and poetry. Her chapbook, Biopoesis, won Poetica Magazine’s 2013 contest. A summer spent painting still lifes inspired this piece.
Oliver Bendorf is the author of The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State University Press, 2015). His writing and comics are published in Alaska Quarterly Review, diode, Feminist Wire, jubilat, The Rumpus, Sycamore Review, Troubling the Line, and elsewhere. He teaches and works with the Little Magazine Collection at University of Wisconsin-Madison. www.oliverbendorf.tumblr.com/
Roy Bentley’s awards include an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and grants from the arts councils of Florida and Ohio. His books include The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana (White Pine, 2006) and Starlight Taxi (Lynx House, 2013). He lives in Barnegat, New Jersey. [End Page 243]
deborah brandon holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Additional work: Transom, Ocho, MiPOesias, [PANK], Bombay Gin, Mom Egg Review, Denver Quarterly, Moonshot, Hotel Amerika, Cadillac Cicatrix and Puerto del Sol; and...
