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  • Contributors' Notes

Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012), and her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, O. Henry Prize Stories, and various other publications. She's received fellowships from the Camargo and MacDowell foundations, and was a 2015 Fulbright scholar in Athens, Greece. She's an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit and a faculty member of Writing Workshops in Greece.

Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Chord (Sarabande Books, 2015), which received the PEN Open Book Award, the UNT Rilke Prize, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Barot lives in Tacoma, Washington, and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He is also the poetry editor for New England Review.

Amie Barrodale is the author of the story collection You Are Having a Good Time (FSG Originals, 2016). She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, Clancy Martin.

Jill Bialosky's newest memoir is Poetry Will Save Your Life (Atria Books, 2017). She is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently The Players (Knopf, 2015); three critically acclaimed novels, most recently, The Prize (Counterpoint, 2015); and a New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life (Atria Books, 2011). She is an executive editor and vice president at W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014 she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.

Marianne Boruch's work includes a ninth book of poems, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (Copper Canyon, 2016), and a third essay collection, The Little Death of Self (University of Michigan Press' "Poets on Poetry" series, 2017). A new poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. Recent work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Narrative, New England Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Purdue University and in the lowresidency Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. [End Page 187]

Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf Press, May 2018). His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Epiphany, and LitMag. He lives in Los Angeles.

Tameka Cage Conley, PhD, is a literary artist who writes poetry, fiction, plays, librettos, and essays. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, African American Review, Huizache, The Portable Boog Reader 7, and verysmartbrothas.theroot.com. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Poetry Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is completing her first novel.

Nyssa Chow is a writer, new-media storyteller, and educator. She is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, and the Jeffery H. Brodsky Award for her literary nonfiction work Still.Life. She is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, and the Columbia University Oral History Masters Program. For her visual storytelling she has won the Academy of Motion Pictures Foundation Award, and the Women in Film and Television Fellowship.

Sandra Cisneros' awards include National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, a National Medal of the Arts, and the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship. The House on Mango Street has sold over six million copies and is required reading in elementary and high school, and universities across the nation. Founder of awards and foundations that serve writers, Cisneros is dual citizen of the United States and Mexico.

Nan Cohen is the author of two poetry collections, Rope Bridge (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005) and Unfinished City (Gunpowder Press, 2017). The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also the longtime poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. She lives in Los Angeles. [End Page 188]

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