Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
D.M. Aderibigbe is from Nigeria. His chapbook is In Praise of Our Absent Father. His poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Verse Daily. His first manuscript received a special mention in 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
Currently an MFA candidate at Boston University.
Toby Altman is the author of two chapbooks, Tender Industrial Fabric (Greying Ghost) and Asides (Furniture Press). His poems can be found in Best American Experimental Writing, 2014, The Black Warrior Review, Diagram, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago where he co-curates the Absinthe and Zygote series and Damask Press.
Britt Ashley is a queer femme from Texas who makes poems and biscuits. Her poetry and artwork has appeared or is forthcoming in juked, Winter Tangerine Review, The Offing and elsewhere.
Jacqueline Balderrama is an MFA candidate in poetry at Arizona State University where she teaches and serves as Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. She also co-instructs a creative writing class at Arizona Department of Corrections, Florence. Her work is forthcoming in Blackbird and Southern Humanities Review.
B. Batchelor has been incarcerated since 2002 and is a member of the Stillwater Writer’s Collective. He has been a fortunate student in the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop for two years and has had wonderful teachers and an amazing mentor shaping him into an addict of writing.
Ben Black holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, where he now lectures. His work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, New American Writing, Harpur Palate, The Los Angeles Review, and other journals. His stories have been finalists for the Calvino Prize and the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest. Benpblack.com
Ace Boggess, of Charleston, WV, is author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire, 2003). He spent five years locked up in West Virginia. His poems have been in Rattle, River Styx, Atlanta Review, and other journals. [End Page 149]
Laura Citino is a fiction writer and essayist from southeastern Michigan. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Gigantic Sequins, Sou’wester, and Passages North. She serves as Fiction Editor for Sundog Lit and holds an MFA in Fiction from Eastern Washington University. She currently lives in Kalamazoo, MI.
Chicago-based artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro’s work is a practice of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation to the world. Her trans-disciplinary work disrupts and reorganizes our vision and being in a way that enables us to see, imagine, and be differently -- facilitating an embodied, contemplative, and ecstatic experience.
Stewart Gonzales’s poetry has appeared in the 2008 & 2009 editions of Walking Rain Review, plus a short story in the June 2015 issue of Shadowgraph Review. He is currently a member of an Arizona State University-directed creative writing class at the Arizona State Prison Complex, Florence.
Gabrielle Gravestein lives in Oakland, California. She is trained as a lawyer and a bioethicist, and also really does plan to finish her PhD dissertation soon. She sometimes releases gothy post-punk music under the name Glass Graves. Her poetry has appeared in Margie/American Journal of Poetry.
Amy Guidry is an artist currently residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. She comes from a family of artists including the late painter Eleanor Norcross. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationwide. Her paintings are present in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Amy Elisabeth Hansen is a poet and writer living in Marquette, Michigan. Most recently, her work appears in Up the Staircase Quarterly, Hippocampus, and Stirring: A Literary Collection.
Ihab Hassan had received two Guggenheim and three Fulbright Fellowships, and two honorary doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala and Giessen. He was the author of fifteen books of essays and memoirs, and over 25 short stories, published in such journals as New England_ Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, New Ohio Review, Redux, Witness, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Review, Confrontation, Fiction International, Nimrod, [End Page 150] Pleiades, Wasafiri (London), Flash (Chester, UK), Quartet (Tokyo), etc. He had just completed a novelette and stories with Egyptian backgrounds, The Changeling and...
