Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Bonnie Arning is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico in poetry and serves as poetry editor of the Blue Mesa Review. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in 2Rivers and Gargoyle Magazine.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (Saturnalia Books, 2013); The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), runner up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook, Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2010), was awarded the Midwest Poets Series Award. She is also co-author of the textbook Writing Poems, 8the ed. (Pearson, 2011). Hadara is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
Michael Bazzett's poems have appeared in West Branch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Green Mountains Review, DIAGRAM, and Guernica, among others, and his work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. New poems are forthcoming in Carolina Quarterly, Pleiades, Smartish Pace, Berkeley Poetry Review, and The Literary Review. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.
Ashley E. Booth is currently in the Library and Information Science program at University of Illinois. She received her MFA at the University of Illinois in 2011. Her work has been published in Mid-American Review, and right now, she's probably drinking a glass of whiskey.
R.T. Both has worked as a small-town newspaper reporter, business journalist, and community-organization fundraiser. Her publications include The Brooklyn Review, Weep, and Chicago Magazine. She is working on a novel called Last Days of the Rebellion. She is a doctoral student at UWM.
J. Bowers is a PhD candidate in fiction writing, 19th c. literature, and film studies at the University of Missouri. Her short stories have appeared in The Portland Review, Redivider, Zone 3, DOGZPLOT, and other journals. In her free time, she likes to consider the hungry ghosts of silent Hollywood while riding her horse, Billy.
Devon Branca teaches Literature and Composition at Morrisville State College. He has work forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review Online and Southern Humanities Review. [End Page 131]
Jefferson Carter has poems in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, and New Poets of the American West. In 2013, Chax Press (Tucson) published his ninth collection, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems. He's lived in Tucson since 1954 and is currently a volunteer with Sky Island Alliance, a locally-based environmental organization.
Brittany Cavallaro's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2011, Tin House, Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, and elsewhere. No Girls No Telephones, a chapbook she co-wrote with Rebecca Hazelton, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has been a finalist for the Ruth Lilly fellowship, and her awards include work-study scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Yi-Fen Chou's poetry has appeared in Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sonora Review, Cimarron Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review.
Christopher Citro's poetry appears or is forthcoming in Southeast Review, Poetry East, Fourteen Hills, The Minnesota Review, The Cincinnati Review, Harpur Palate, Arts & Letters Prime, and elsewhere. His poetry has been featured twice on Verse Daily, and he is a past winner of a Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for poetry. He is currently completing an MFA in poetry at Indiana University.
George David Clark's honors include the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship at Colgate Universty and the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University where he currently teaches literature and creative writing. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, and can be found online at The Missouri Review, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily. He is the editor of 32 Poems."
Niamh Corcoran holds an MFA from American University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cider Press Review, The Los Angeles Review, Southword, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an individual artist grant in poetry...
