About the Contributors
Eve Abrams is a freelance writer, radio producer, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. She thinks constantly about moving to New Orleans.
Jocelyn Bartkevicius is the book review editor of Fourth Genre. Her work has appeared in such journals as the Hudson Review, the Missouri Review, the Bellingham Review, and Gulf Coast, and has been awarded the Missouri Review Award in the Essay and the Annie Dillard Award. She is completing a memoir, The Emerald Room.
Howard Bossen is on the faculty of Michigan State University, where he is a professor in the School of Journalism and an adjunct curator at the Kresge Art Museum. Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2005) in conjunction with the Carnegie Museum of Art and Kresge Art Museum retrospective exhibition by the same name.
Michael Branch is Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he serves as director of graduate studies in the English Department. He is book review editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and coeditor of the University of Virginia Press book series Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. He has published numerous essays, articles, and reviews on environmental subjects. His most recent book is Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden (University of Georgia Press, 2004).
Rebecca J. Butorac is enrolled in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. [End Page 191]
John Calderazzo teaches nonfiction writing workshops and literature classes at Colorado State University, where he has won the Best Teacher Award. He is the author of a textbook, Writing From Scratch: Freelancing; a children's science book, 101 Questions About Volcanoes; and the creative nonfiction book, Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives. His essays and fiction have been cited in Best American Stories and Best American Essays and published in Georgia Review, Audubon, Orion, Witness, and many other magazines.
Brad Comann teaches English and Religious Studies at Penn State-Erie. His literary nonfiction has appeared in Cream City Review and Raritan Review.
Casey Fleming was born and raised in Texas, where she is now finishing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Houston. She has a BA from Smith College and an MA in Spanish from American University. In 2003 she was a finalist for the Willis Barnstone Translating Poetry Contest, and she was recently nominated for Best New American Voices. She currently serves as fiction editor for Gulf Coast.
Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English and the chair of the English Language and Literature Department at Smith College, where he teaches courses in fiction in the English language and the literature of travel. He is the author of The English Novel at Mid-Century, After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie, and The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany, and editor of the Portable Conrad. His teaching interests include the literature of travel and fiction in English from Jane Austen to last week. His book reviews appear in British and American newspapers.
Priscilla Hodgkins's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Agni, Creative Nonfiction, the Milwaukee Sentinel, and Confrontation. Her essay "Einstein Didn't Dream of My Mother" was recognized in Best American Essays and her story "Bread and War" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is associate director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, a graduate program in writing at Bennington College.
Kristen Iversen is the author of the award-winning biography Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth and the textbook Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. She is completing Full Body Burden: Living and Dying in the Shadow of America's Nuclear Nightmare. Formerly a travel writer in [End Page 192] Europe, she teaches creative writing and fiction at the University of Memphis and is Faculty Editor of the literary journal, The Pinch, formerly River City, of the University of Memphis.
Richard Katrovas is the author of ten books, most recently The Years of Smashing Bricks...
