Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
CHAD ABUSHANAB's poems appear in, or are forthcoming from, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, the Hopkins Review, Measure, and others. He is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at Texas Tech University. He serves as the poetry editor for Arcadia and its chapbook imprint, Arcadia Press.*
A. H. JERRIOD AVANT is from Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, he earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. He also studied in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and his poems appear in the Mississippi Review, Boston Review, Pinwheel, Callaloo, and other journals. A finalist for the 2015 Mississippi Review Prize and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency, he was awarded 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.*
TOMMYE BLOUNT is the author of What Are We Not For, from Bull City Press. A graduate of Warren Wilson College, he has been the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Born and raised in Detroit, Tommye currently lives in Novi, Michigan.*
MARY CRESSWELL is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand's Kapiti Coast. Her fourth and latest book, Fish Stories, published by Canterbury University Press, is a collection of ghazals and glosas (reviewed in the May 2017 issue of Plumwood Mountain). She's a science journal editor who switched to poetry from natural history after retirement.*
KIKI DELANCEY is a writer in rural Ohio. She's won two individual artist's grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and will be the Ohio writer-in-residence at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center during the summer of 2017. Her book Coal Miner's Holiday from Sarabande Books was named the best fiction collection of the year by the Independent Publishers Association.*
HALINA DURAJ's stories appear in the Harvard Review, the Sun, Fiction, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014. Her debut story collection, The Family Cannon, was published by Augury Books in 2014. She teaches creative writing at the University of San Diego.*
DAHLIA ELSAYED makes text-and-image–based work that takes the form of narrative paintings, prints, and installations. She uses symbols of hard data (flags, maps, geologic forms) to frame soft data (wordplay, metaphors, lists), allowing image and language to continuously modify each other. She received her MFA from Columbia and is an Associate Professor of Art at CUNY.*
NICK FULLER GOOGINS's fiction appears in All Things Considered, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, the Oxford American, the Common, and elsewhere. He and his wife will soon move back to Boston, where in his spare time he will either be mentoring Palestinian youth for the writing program We Are Not Numbers, or working up the guts to skateboard the lesser of the Arnold Arboretum's two very scary hills.* [End Page 196]
ANYA GRONER's poetry and prose appear in journals including Guernica, Ninth Letter, the Oxford American, and the Atlantic; and she's received grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Louisiana Board of Regents. Currently, she teaches writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and the New Orleans Writers Workshop.
ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS is the granddaughter of Anguillian revolutionaries Jeremiah and Lydia Gumbs. Alexis is also the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, the coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, and the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, based in Durham, North Carolina.*
LINDA HOGAN is a Chickasaw writer and the author of eighteen books. Her new and selected poems, Dark. Sweet., was released in 2014 by Coffee House Press, and she has just completed a new novel, The Mercy Liars. She is the recipient of the 2016 PEN Thoreau Prize, a 2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation fellowship, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Colorado along with a Chickasaw mustang and a wild burro.*
REGAN HUFF is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and lives in Seattle, Washington. Her work appears in publications including Beloit Poetry Journal...
