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  • About the Contributors

Jocelyn Bartkevicius teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida and edits The Florida Review. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, Bellingham Review, The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly, and Sweet, and has received the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, The Missouri Review Prize, and the Iowa Woman Essay Award. She is working on a collection of essays about war, genocide, and mass deportation in Lithuania.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic (University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series), winner of the Lambda Book Award. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf), won the Stonewall Book Award. She is a professor of creative writing and publishing at Chicago’s DePaul University, where she will soon debut Slag Glass City, a new creative nonfiction and digital media journal.

Amy Butcher (amyebutcher.com) is an essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Paris Review online, Tin House online, The North American Review, The Indiana Review, and Brevity, among others. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Iowa Review Award in nonfiction, as judged by David Shields, for her essay “Reenacting,” which appears in her forthcoming memoir, Visiting Hours (Blue Rider Press/Penguin, April 2015). She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa and resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Matthew Clark lives in Laramie, Wyoming. His essays have appeared in, among other places, Ecotone, CutBank, The Antioch Review, Wag’s Revue, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, C4, and South Loop Review. [End Page 203]

Zoe Cohen is an avid thrift shopper. A recent graduate of Western Washington University, she lives in Bellingham, where she is a nonfiction editor for the Bellingham Review.

T. Crunk ’s first collection of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, was the 1994 selection in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has since published five additional collections of poetry, as well as numerous works for children. He currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama, where he teaches in a creative writing program in the state’s juvenile detention facilities.

Bob Evans has been involved in image making for the past three decades. He has been published in Fourth Genre and other literary journals. His work can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/bobevansimages. He lives in northern Wyoming with his wife.

Lauren Fath is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Missouri, where she holds the Creative Writing Program Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Post Road, South Loop Review, and poemmemoirstory, among others, and was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize.

Steven Faulkner has published essays in North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, DoubleTake, Texas Review, Wisconsin Trails Magazine, Beacon’s Best, and elsewhere. A movie, Waterwalk, based on his book Water-walk: A Passage of Ghosts, has been released across the United States and Canada and on cable and is now available on DVD. A version of “These Vanishing Hills” appears in his work-in-progress, West Over the Edge of the Sky: Traveling with Lewis and Clark, Pierre Jean De Smet, and the Nez Perce.

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (W.W. Norton: Liveright), Pot Farm, and Barolo, as well as the poetry collections The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga and Aardvark. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Northern Michigan University, where he is also the nonfiction editor of Passages North. This winter, he prepared his first batch of whitefish liver ice cream. It paired well with onion bagels. [End Page 204]

Vanessa Garcia (www.vanessagarcia.org) is a writer and multidisciplinary artist working from Miami and Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Huffington Post, and numerous other publications. Her plays have been produced in Miami, LA, New York City, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam, among other cities around the world. She is currently at work on a book of creative nonfiction about ABCs (American-born Cubans) and their relationship to the island of Cuba.

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