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  • Contributors

Sigman Byrd’s first book of poems, Under the Wanderer’s Star, won the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. A new manuscript, The Three Doors Beyond Saying, is currently making the rounds to publishers. Poems from the collection have been published or are forthcoming in Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Plume, Southwest Review, and other journals.

Kelly Clasen received her doctorate in English from the University of North Texas in 2011. She is currently director of the Academic Resources Center and clinical assistant professor at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. Her research interests include American Regionalism, American women writers, and ecocritical discourse.

Gregg Heitschmidt teaches writing and American Literature at Surry Community College, located in Dobson, North Carolina.

Jacquelynn Kleist is a PhD student in the English department at the University of Iowa. She is specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and transnational migration narratives. She spent three years teaching at a university in Hangzhou, China before returning to the United States to pursue graduate work.

Gerald David Naughton is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait. He received his PhD from University College Dublin, where he specialized in 19th- and 20th-century African American literature and culture. His other research interests include comparative American literature, post-war American fiction, and transnational American studies. His essays have appeared in such journals as African American Review, Symplokē, and Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. He currently holds a research position at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin.

Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton received her PhD in English & Comparative Literature from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. She has published articles on contemporary Irish Literature, Comparative Literature, and cross-cultural pedagogy. Her work is informed by continental philosophy and Kristevian/Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is an Associate Researcher at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, and she currently works as an Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait. [End Page 186]

Ashley Sufflé Robinson is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas. She has received multiple academic awards, including the University’s doctoral academy fellowship and the Blair Rouse Scholarship for superior academic achievement. She has presented her work at multiple academic conferences, including the Southern American Studies Association biennial conference, and her current research project focuses on the intersection of the American West and nineteenth-century English literature.

Tony Ruiz is a writer, editor, and academic publisher. He completed his graduate work at the University of Washington, Seattle. For several years, he was a full-time instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, at the University of Colorado--Boulder. His primary critical focus is on experimental literature and film, particularly the innovative works of California artists. He lives and works on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Brandon D. Shuler is a Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment PhD candidate at Texas Tech University. His first book, Glory of the Silver King (Texas A&M UP 2011) has been nominated as Book of the Year by Texas Outdoors Writers Association. His fiction appears in Texas Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere. Shuler’s dissertation, Whispering Like a Mountain: The Selected Letters of Tom Lea and J. Frank Dobie, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. His edited anthology, NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the U. S. Mexico Border, is forthcoming from Texas A&M Press. He is books review editor for Prime Number Magazine and Boise State’s Western Writers Online. [End Page 187]

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