Contributors
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Kelly Aliano is a candidate for the PhD degree at Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches theatre at Hunter College.
Emily August is a Provost’s Graduate Fellow completing the PhD in English at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches courses in literature. She received the MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. She has published poetry in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Quarterly West, and other journals.
Florian Bast is a doctoral student studying American literature at Leipzig University, where he is also an assistant lecturer for American studies. He has been published in COPAS and Kultur und Geschlecht.
Kevin Cryderman, who recently received the PhD from the University of Rochester, teaches film studies at Emory University and at the Liberal Arts Department of Georgia Gwinnett College.
Kahn Santori Davison, a Cave Canem Fellow, has published in the Baltimore Review, Litchfield Review, and X-Bout (in the UK). He is a freelance journalist for the Michigan Metro Times and a full-time photographer. He lives in Detroit.
George Fragopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He has published interviews, translations, reviews, and essays in The Critical Flame, The Quarterly Conversation, and Words Without Borders. He also contributed a chapter in the forthcoming collection on Robert Duncan titled Reading Duncan Reading.
Kevin Frank, a native of Guyana, received his PhD degree from the University of California in Los Angeles. He is currently teaching at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His essays have appeared in such journals as Small Axe, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Caribbean Studies, and The Atlantic Literary Review.
Wendell Gorden, or “Mister Wendell” as he is frequently called, is a self-taught photographer, born in Oklahoma. His initial pursuit of photography began in 1967 in Phu Loi, South Vietnam, while he was repairing and rebuilding helicopters. After he had photographed many difficult war-time experiences, he soon became estranged from the camera. “Those visual and emotional experiences,” he says, “were just too real.” Wendell Gorden did not pick up another camera seriously until 1982, when, he says, “A friend offered to sell me a camera for $35.00, and I took the offer. I have not been without a camera since that day.” In his retirement, he spends much of his time photographing people, places, and things, some of his favorite subjects being cowboys, dancers, wideopen spaces, flowers, and the innocence of children. He also enjoys volunteering for nonprofit organizations in Dallas, where he does digital editing and teaches photography to children. A doting husband, father, and grandfather, this Vietnam Vet lives with his wife, Margaret Gorden, in Dallas, Texas.
Natalie Graham, a Cave Canem Fellow, received the MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida. Currently she is a University Distinguished Fellow in the American [End Page 1116] studies doctoral program at Michigan State University. She is also completing her first volume of poems, The Perfect Body. She has published poems in Valley Voices: A Literary Review and New England Review.
Melvin G. Hill is an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He has published one collection of poems, Far District (Peepal Tree Press, 2010), which won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil award for poetry.
T. J. Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published in African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, Third Coast, and other journals. Her collection The Moon Looks Down and Laughs was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Tempa Review Prize for Poetry.
Rickey Laurentiis, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, is studying for the MFA in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in jubilat, Indiana Review, Tidal Basin Review, and many other journals.
Clarence Major is a novelist, poet, and painter who has also assembled a number of very important anthologies of African American literature. This distinguished American writer has lectured, given readings, and represented American writers across the globe. Among his most recent books are...
