Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Lucy Anderton’s chapbook, the flung you, was published in 2012 by New Michigan Press. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, FENCE, Crazyhorse, From the Fishouse, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among others. She is taking a respite from rebuilding her 500-year-old brothel in the south of France. This pause involves the concentrated consumption of cherries, and the co-growing of her daughter, Ophélia.
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet with a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. She lives in Dubai with her husband and two daughters. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals like Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Folio, Copper Nickel, Crosstimbers, and Mizna, among others. She reads regularly with the Poeticians, a Dubai/Beirut poetry performance group. Her work has been nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize.
A graphic artist, film producer, poet and editor, Josh Bettinger’s work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, journals in the United States, England, and Canada including Oxford Poetry, Thin Air, Bateau, Western Humanities Review, The Los Angeles Review, Fourteen Hills and Vallum. He has an MFA from Columbia and lives in San Francisco.
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn lives in the Pioneer Valley of western MA with her husband and their hound. She is an associate editor for Linebreak. Recent work has appeared or is scheduled to appear in Broadsided, Subtropics, and The Journal.
Born in Macau, Wo Chan is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. A Kundiman fellow, a sonneteer, and an aspiring drag queen, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he plans to make friends and develop his writing before pursuing an MFA. [End Page 130]
Sarah Crossland grew up in Manassas, Virginia, and received a BA in Story-telling from the University of Virginia. She is now pursuing an MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she serves as the Managing Editor and webmaster of Devil’s Lake. She is working on a book-length hybrid-genre retelling of the MGM musical classic Brigadoon. In her spare time, she teaches at Oakhill Correctional Institution and plays the harp.
Stephen Danos is author of a poetry chapbook, Playhouse State (H_NGM_N Books, 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Anti-, Bateau, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Forklift Ohio, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, The Laurel Review, Transom, and elsewhere. He serves as Assistant Editor for YesYes Books and is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Pinwheel.
John Matthew Fox won the Shenandoah Fiction Award and the Third Coast Fiction Contest. His fiction is also published in Bellingham Review, Tampa Review, and Los Angeles Review. For his graduate degrees in creative writing, he attended New York University and the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Orange County and is working on a novel.
Jeffrey Hammond, Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, has won two Pushcart Prizes, Shenandoah’s Carter Prize for Essay, and the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. His most recent book is Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties (Iowa, 2010).
Bradley Harrison is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. His work can be found in New American Writing, The Los Angeles Review, Forklift Ohio, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northeast, Hunger Mountain, New Orleans Review, Best New Poets 2012 and elsewhere. His chapbook Diorama of a People, Burning is available from Ricochet Editions (2012). [End Page 131]
Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis where he teaches at The Stevens Institute of Business and Arts. He has received awards from the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts, The Jentel Foundation, Ananda College and the Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, and Natural Design. His work appears in recent and forthcoming issues of Switchback, Yemassee, Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, The Pinch, burntdistrict, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Cerise Press, Thrush and elsewhere.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of 12 books of poetry, fiction and memoir including the poetry collections Cinema Muto (SIU Press); Dog Angel (U of Pittsburgh Press); and World as...
