Contributors
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Miranda Brandon is an animal enthusiast and advocate, as well as bird rehabilitator. Her photographic work challenges how we perceive the world around us and strives to promote a greater understanding and appreciation for the interconnectivity between human and non-human animals. Originally from Oklahoma, Brandon moved to Minneapolis to obtain her bfa from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and later completed her mfa at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2014. Since then, Brandon has been a Showcase Artist at the Bell Museum of Natural History as well as a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellow, and she has participated in multiple group shows, both local and national, while also teaching in the greater Twin Cities area. Her website is http://www.mirandabrandon.com.
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Dima Alzayat is a Syrian-American fiction writer and freelance journalist. She was the recipient of a 2013 Highly Commended Bridport Prize and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scottish Book Trust’s Callan Gordon Award for New Writers. Her fiction has appeared in the Bridport Prize Anthology and Enizagram. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Flaunt, and the Skinny. She holds an msc in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh.
HK Coit is a 2004 graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts with an mfa in writing. Coit received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 2001. She is a professor at a community college in central New Jersey.
Peter LaSalle is the author of the novels Strange Sunlight and Mariposa’s Song as well as four story collections and a forthcoming essay collection. His fiction has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Zoetrope, Paris Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. His nonfiction has also been widely represented in many fine journals. He has received several awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Texas, in both the English department and the Michener Center for Writers.
Niala Maharaj has previously published fiction and poetry in Stand (UK), the [End Page 180] Malahat Review, Paris Transcontinental, the Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, and others. Her first novel was published by Random House UK in 2006. Her journalism has been published by Harpers, the Guardian, and other leading publications around the globe. She has also published one book of nonfiction.
Ezra Olson recently graduated from Northwestern University, where he won several awards for his poetry and prose.
Gregory Pardlo’s collection Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. Pardlo’s poems appear in the Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Pardlo lives with his family in Brooklyn.
Sujata Shekar’s stories have appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Common, and Georgetown Review. Her stories for children and young adults have appeared in Kahani and Cricket, and have been selected for Cricket’s anthology The Realm of Imagination. She is a 2015 Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a 2015 VONA (Voices Of Our Nation) Resident. Sujata grew up in India and now lives in New York, where she is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Rachel Unkefer’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Prime Number Magazine, the Citron Review, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of WriterHouse, a nonprofit community writing center in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Greg Wrenn is the author of Centaur, which was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His essays and poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2014, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a book of linked lyrical essays about coral reefs and human destiny. A former Stegner Fellow, he is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University...
