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171 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Erica Anzalone is currently a Schaeffer fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her poetry collection Samsara is the recipient of the Noemi Press 2011 First Book Award and will be published in the fall of 2012. Charles Baxter is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. His new and selected stories, Gryphon, appeared in 2011. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. Molly Bendall is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Under the Quick, from Parlor Press. She teaches at the University of Southern California. Bruce Bond’s most recent and forthcoming collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells (a tetralogy of new books; Etruscan, 2013), The Visible (Louisiana State University Press, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (finalist, the Poet’s Prize, lsu, 2008). Presently he is a Regents Professor at the University of North Texas. Harmony Button has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Web awards (2010) and was awarded the Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets (2006). She has degrees from Middlebury College and University of Utah (mfa) and is upcoming English Department Chair at The Waterford School. Jaya Aninda Chatterjee is an editorial assistant at Yale University Press and a recent graduate of Columbia University’s master’s program in English and Comparative Literature. This issue’s cover photograph is by Régine Cloet, a French photographer specializing in urban exploration. Her favorite subjects are abandoned mansions, some with ghostly characters, that tell a story from another time. Her pictures are also published under the pseudonym Teolc Eniger. colorado review 172 Jamison Crabtree is a Black Mountain Institute PhD fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Other poems from this series can be found in Hawai’i Review, PANK, Anti-, >kill author, No Tell Motel, and Makeout Creek. Gillian Cummings’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boulevard , the Laurel Review, PANK, Quarterly West, the Cincinnati Review, and other journals. A chapbook, Spirits of the Humid Cloud, is due out from Dancing Girl Press in May. She holds an mfa from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches writing workshops at a hospital. Kristina Marie Darling’s fourth book, Melancholia (An Essay), is forthcoming from Ravenna Press in 2012. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Heidi Diehl teaches at Brooklyn College, where she received her mfa. Her fiction has appeared in Opium Magazine, and she was the recipient of a scholarship from the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Regina Drexler has a ba and jd from the University of Colorado. She has previously published nonfiction in the Colorado Lawyer and is currently working on short fiction and a collection of personal essays, “Playgroup.” She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her two sons. This is her first literary publication. Ann Douglas lives east of the North Cascades in Twisp, Washington. Her first book, After, was published by Breitenbush Press. Jonathan Dubow’s poetry has recently appeared in Diagram, Drunken Boat, the Seattle Review, and elsewhere. He is a candidate for an mfa in poetry from the University of Alabama and a poetry editor at Revolution House magazine. Nurduran Duman is a poet, writer, essayist, and translator who lives in Istanbul. She is an ocean engineer and a naval architect. Her poetry collection Yenilgi Oyunu (The Defeat Game) was awarded the 2005 Cemal Süreya Poetry Award. She has been conducting many theater activities (actress, director, theater electrician, etc.) for years. She is a member of Turkish pen. 173 Contributor Notes Andrea Dupree’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Confrontation, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere, and she recently won a MacDowell Fellowship for her novel-in-progress. She cofounded and codirects Lighthouse Writers Workshop, an independent literary center in Denver. Norman Finkelstein teaches English at Xavier University. His most recent books are Inside the Ghost Factory (Marsh Hawk, 2010) and On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (Iowa, 2010). In 2012...

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