About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Susanne Antonetta (Suzanne Paola)’s most recent book, Inventing Family, a memoir and study of adoption, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. Awards for her poetry and prose include a New York Times Notable Book Award, an American Book Award, a Library Journal Best Science Book of the Year, a Lenore Marshall Award finalist, a Pushcart Prize, and others. She is also coauthor of Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Orion, Seneca Review, and many anthologies, including Short Takes and Lyric Postmodernisms. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and son.
William Bradley’s work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School, Bellevue Literary Review, The Missouri Review, and other magazines and journals. He lives in Canton, New York, where he teaches at St. Lawrence University, and he writes about teaching creative nonfiction at Bedford-St. Martin’s “Lit Bits” blog (blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits).
Carla Conforto received her MFA in poetry from Pennsylvania State University. Her writing has appeared in the Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Nocturnes (RE)view of the Literary Arts, and other places. She lives and works in Bellingham, Washington.
Peter Chilson teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He is the author of the travelogue Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (University of Georgia Press, 1999) and the fiction collection Disturbance-Loving Species (Mariner Books, 2007), for which he won the [End Page 205] Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for short fiction. His work has appeared in The American Scholar, Ascent, Audubon, Gulf Coast, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. Recently, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Foreign Policy magazine sent him to West Africa to write about the coup d’état and civil war in Mali and the new border that now divides the country. His e-book on Mali, We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches from the Lost Country of Mali, was just published by Foreign Policy and the Pulitzer Center.
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, writer, and best-selling author of five books. Her work has been published in 16 languages and is taught in universities around the world. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry appear regularly in literary and journalistic publications. She is currently at work on her sixth and seventh books.
Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Opa Nobody and Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir. She has also written a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers. A recent essay won the 2012 Terrain Nonfiction Award. She teaches at Fairfield University and in the Fairfield low-residency MFA program.
Frank Izaguirre teaches journalism and creative nonfiction at Pittsburgh School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA). He’s been published in Terrain, Flashquake, and ISLE and has an essay forthcoming in the travel anthology Be There Now. When not reading, writing, or teaching, he likes to go birding.
Katie Karnehm is an assistant professor of writing and English at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She graduated from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, with a PhD in creative writing with an emphasis on creative nonfiction and poetry. She is working on a memoir of living and studying abroad in Europe.
Cassie Keller Cole currently lives in Austin, Texas, where she chases three sons, an engineer, and the possibility of dinner. She loves the scent of fresh ink and aged paper, the sound of bare feet on wood floors, and the flavor of [End Page 206] homegrown pecans. Her work has been published in Hotel Amerika, The Tusculum Review, and Juice: A Journal of the Ordinary, among others.
Cassandra Kircher’s nonfiction has recently appeared in South Dakota Review, Cold Mountain Review, Flyway, and Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks. She is the winner of the 2010 Notes in the Field contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2011. She teaches nonfiction at Elon University.
Suzanne Koven (suzannekovenmd.com) practices primary care internal medicine in Boston. She writes the...
