Contributor Notes
- Contributor Notes
Adonis, born Ali Ahmad Sa’id in 1930, has been a leading figure in the modernist movement in Arabic poetry since the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry and numerous works of cultural criticism and translation.
Mike Alberti was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his mfa in fiction from the University of Minnesota. His stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, Flyway, Gulf Coast, and One Story. He lives in Minneapolis, where he is at work on a novel.
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in Guernica and other literary journals. She is the author of three collections of poetry; the most recent, Hijra, was selected as a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series. Her debut novel, Salt Houses, is forthcoming by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
John Blair’s third poetry collection, Playful Song Called Beautiful, was the 2015 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and published by the University of Iowa Press. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Texas State University.
Jackson Burgess is the author of Pocket Full of Glass, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Competition (2017, Tebot Bach). He has placed work in Rattle, the Los Angeles Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and received fellowships from the University of Southern California and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Katie M. Flynn’s stories have appeared in Carve, Hobart, Joyland Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. Recently, she finished her first novel about love, revenge, and uploaded consciousness, the first chapter of which is forthcoming in Indiana Review. She lives in San Francisco and can be found on Twitter: @other_katie.
John Gallaher’s forthcoming book of poetry is Brand New Spacesuit, from BOA Editions. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review. [End Page 171]
Marielle Grenade-Willis is a poet, social justice advocate, vocalist, and gardener from Virginia. She moved to Colorado two years ago as an AmeriCorps volunteer and is now involved with several nonprofits related to conservation, food access, and refugee communities. Her writings have been featured in the Lune, the James Dickey Review, Southern Sierran Magazine, and on Public Radio International.
Jackson Holbert’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Greensboro Review, Willow Springs, and Best New Poets 2016, among others. He edits poetry for the Adroit Journal.
Jennifer Itell writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been published in the Normal School, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Literary Mama, 5280, Redbook Magazine, StoryQuarterly, and Cimarron Review. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver and is currently at work on a novel—a contemporary ghost story.
Joan Naviyuk Kane lives in Alaska with her husband and sons. Her books include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, and Milk Black Carbon. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.
J. Kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House, forthcoming in 2018), Testify (Coffee House, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House, 2007). His poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.
Hervé Le Tellier is a French poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist. A member of the Oulipo since 1992, he is also cofounder of the Association of Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul, which promotes this under-recognized philosopher and his school of “Botulism.” [End Page 172]
Rachel Litchman attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been recognized by the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine and the Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award for New Writers. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal, Drunken Boat, New South, and others.
Timothy Liu’s Luminous Debris: New & Selected Poems will be out in 2018. He lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, New York. www.timothyliu.net
Yael Massen is the recipient of the 2016 Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award and the 2016 Kraft...
