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219 Contributors BettyAdcock is author of six collections from Louisiana State University Press, including Intervale: New and Selected Poems (2001) and Slantwise (2008). Her work appears in many anthologies,including three Pushcart Prize volumes.Her honors include the Poets’ Prize, the Texas Institute of Letters Prize, the North Carolina Governor’s Medal for Literature, the Hanes Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. She is a native Texan who has spent all her writing life in North Carolina. Joan Aleshire graduated from Radcliffe/Harvard in 1960 and received her MFA in writing from Goddard College in 1980. Her first book of poems, Cloud Train, was published in the AWP Awards Series in 1982; her fifth book, Happily , appeared from Four Way Books in April 2012. She has published poems, essays, and translations in various journals and anthologies. She has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1983 and lives in Vermont. Debra Allbery’s most recent collection, Fimbul-Winter (Four Way, 2010), won the Grub Street National Prize in Poetry. Her previous collection, Walking Distance , won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Other awards include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the“Discovery”/The Nation prize, a Hawthornden fellowship, and two individual fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. She lives near Asheville, North Carolina, and serves as the director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Winner of an Amy Lowell traveling grant, a Whiting Writer’s award, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the 220 coNTRIBuToRS Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center, Elizabeth Arnold has published three books of poetry, The Reef (Chicago, 1999), Civilization (2006), and Effacement (Flood Editions, 2010). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, the Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, and the Nation. As a PhD student, she discovered an unpublished novel by the British poet Mina Loy, which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1990. She teaches on the MFA faculty of the University of Maryland. David Baker is author of ten books of poetry, most recently Never-Ending Birds (Norton), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011. His four prose books include Talk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets (Arkansas, 2012) and, with Ann Townsend, Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (Graywolf, 2007). Among his awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,the National Endowment for the Arts,the Poetry Society of America, and the Society of Midland Authors. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, and is poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. Rick Barot has published two books of poems with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002) and Want (2008), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and received the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize. He has received fellowships and residencies from Stanford University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, and Civitella Ranieri. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University. Marianne Boruch’s recent poetry collections are The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008); her eighth—Cadaver, Speak—is forthcoming (2014) from Copper Canyon. She’s published two books of essays on poetry, In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005) and Poetry’s Old Air (Michigan, 1995, 2009), and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana, 2011). Her awards include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts,and Fulbright fellowships.She teaches at Purdue University , where she established the graduate creative writing program some two decades ago, and has been on faculty in the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1988. [54.144.233.198] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:31 GMT) coNTRIBuToRS 221 Karen Brennan is the author of six books of various genres,including the forthcoming little dark (Four Way, 2014) and the memoir Being with Rachel (Norton, 2002). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and an Associated Writing Programs award in fiction, and her work has appeared in anthologies from Graywolf, Norton, Penguin, the University of Georgia Press, the University...