Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
RACHEL Z. ARNDT is the author of the essay collection Beyond Measure, published by Sarabande in 2018. She received MFAs in nonfiction and poetry from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and nonfiction editor of the Iowa Review. Her writing appears in Popular Mechanics, Quartz, Pank, Fast Company, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.*
CATHERINE CARTER's collections of poetry include The Swamp Monster at Home, published in 2012, The Memory of Gills, published in 2006, and the forthcoming Larvae of the Nearest Stars, all from Louisiana State University Press. Her work also appears in The Best American Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others. She lives in Cullowhee with her husband and teaches at Western Carolina University.*
MAXIMILIANE DONICHT is from Munich, Germany. Her first chapbook, Bees of the Invisible, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from Columbia University. Her poetry appears in the London Journal of Fiction, Bone Bouquet, Paris / Atlantic, and Cold Mountain Review. Her translations appear in the Grief Diaries, Columbia Journal online, and Gulf Coast.*
CAMERON DEZEN HAMMON is the author of This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession, forthcoming from Lookout Books in 2019, and a contributor to The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers. Her essay "Infirmary Music" was named a notable in The Best American Essays 2017.*
KATIE HARTSOCK is the author of Bed of Impatiens, released by Able Muse Press in 2016. Her poems appear in Arion, Beloit Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Wallace Stevens Journal, Jesus the Imagination, Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at Oakland University, and lives in Ferndale, Michigan, with her family.*
DOLORES HAYDEN's recent work appears in Poetry, Yale Review, Southwest Review, and the Common. Exuberance, a sequence of persona poems set in the early years of aviation, in which "Bird Woman, 1910" appears, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2019.
ANNA MARIA HONG's first poetry collection, Age of Glass, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's 2017 First Book Poetry Competition and was published in April 2018. Her novella, H & G, won the A Room of Her Own Foundation's Clarissa Dalloway Prize and was published by Sidebrow Books in May 2018. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque, won Tupelo Press's Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in 2019. She will join the literature faculty at Bennington College in July 2018. [End Page 177]
EDWARD P. JONES was born and raised in Washington, DC. He is the author of three books, Lost in the City, The Known World, and All Aunt Hagar's Children. He is the recipient of the PEN / Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He has been published in Ploughshares, Callaloo, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He teaches at George Washington University.*
KEITH KNIGHT is an award-winning cartoonist and social activist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He draws three comic strips—The K Chronicles, (th)ink, and The Knight Life—and is the illustrator / co-writer of the tween book series, Jake the Fake. You can find his work at kchronicles.com.*
AUDRE LORDE (1934–1992) was a writer, womanist, and civil-rights activist whose iconic work continues to influence generations of poets. Her poetry collections include The First Cities, From a Land Where Other People Live, Our Dead Behind Us, and The Black Unicorn, and her prose volumes include Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, and The Cancer Journals. From 1991 to 1992, she served as poet laureate of New York State. Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974–1989 was released this year by A Midsummer Night's Press.*
BOJAN LOUIS (Diné) is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and poetry editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. He teaches various composition courses at Arizona State University's downtown campus. His first poetry collection is Currents, published by BkMk Press in 2017.*
SANDRA MCPHERSON has published twenty poetry collections...
