Notes on Contributors

243 notes on contributors meehan cristis reviews editor at the Believer, and her writing has appeared in publications such as Lapham’s Quarterly, the Believer, and the Los Angeles Times. She has taught at Colgate and Columbia universities. Awards and honors include the 2009 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship and residencies from the Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her first nonfiction book, Everything After, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. nick flynn is an American poet and nonfiction writer. His memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (W. W. Norton, 2004) has been translated into ten languages, and received the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award. His most recent book, a work of nonfiction called The Ticking Is the Bomb, was published by W. W. Norton in 2010. A new collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, is forthcoming from Graywolf in February. hannah gamble holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She is currently teaching creative writing at Rice University. mark halliday teaches at Ohio University. His fifth book of poems, Keep This Forever, appeared in 2008 from Tupelo Press. He has often reviewed contemporary poets for Pleiades. lucas howell is a Teach for America corps member, teaching language arts to fourth and fifth graders at Jackson Elementary School in Jackson, Louisiana. He was recently awarded the 2010 James Dickey Prize from Five Points. thomas e. kennedy’s twenty-six books include In the Company of Angels (Bloomsbury, 2010), the first book of the Copenhagen Quartet, four independent novels set in the Danish capital ; the second, Falling Sideways, will appear in 2011. His prizes include an O. Henry, a Pushcart, and a National Magazine Award. He teaches in the MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University . Visit him on the Web at thomasekennedy.com. amy leach lives in Chicago. She is writing a book about animals, plants, and stars. robert aquinas mcnally is the author or coauthor of nine books of nonfiction, and the author of three poetry chapbooks. His poems, which have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, have been published in various anthologies and journals, including Runes, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Snowy Egret, Carquinez Poetry Review, Soundings East, Atlanta Review, Minnetonka Review, Quarry West, Blue Unicorn, Pudding, and Isotope. andy mozina has published stories in Tin House, the Southern Review, the Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere, including The Small Chair, the new iPhone application from McSweeney’s. His first story collection, The Women Were Leaving the Men, won the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for fiction. He teaches literature and creative writing at Kalamazoo College. ecotone 244 244 david philip mullins is the author of the forthcoming collection of short stories Greetings from Below (Sarabande), which won the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in magazines including the Yale Review, New England Review, and Fiction, among others. He has received awards from Yaddo and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and teaches writing and literature at Creighton University. jason myers grew up in western Maryland, graduated from Bennington College, received his MFA from New York University, and now lives in Atlanta, where he works at Ebenezer Baptist Church and is an FTE Fellow at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poet, Agni, Indiana Review, the Paris Review, West Branch, and several other journals. danica novgorodoff is a painter, comic book artist, writer, graphic designer, and horse wrangler who currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from Yale University in 2002. Her comic A Late Freeze won the Isotope Award and was nominated for an Eisner Award, and her graphic novels Slow Storm (2008) and Refresh, Refresh (2009) were published by First Second Books. edith pearlman’s fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, twice in The Pushcart Prize, and once in New Stories from the South. She is the author of three short-story collections: Vaquita, Love Among the Greats, and How to Fall. “Vallies” will be included in her fourth collection, Binocular Vision: New and...