Contributors
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Covers
Front: Once We Were, Ying Zhu. Back: Is A?. Ying Zhu. Photos by Miao Liu.
Ying Zhu moved to the United States from China ten years ago. She creates objects and situations that examine what it means to be bi-national in the complex environment of American art and culture while revealing her personal transformation and assimilation. She is an MFA candidate in Art and Art History at UNL.
Prose
Susan M. Gilbert-Collins was born and raised in South Dakota and loves to return there as often as possible. Her short stories have appeared in the Alabama Literary Review and Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, and her first novel, Starting from Scratch, will be published in 2010. She lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and son.
Judith Kitchen is the author of two collections of essays, a novel, and a book of criticism. In addition, she has edited three collections of short nonfiction pieces (In Short, In Brief, and Short Takes) for W. W. Norton. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where she serves on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency mfa at Pacific Lutheran University.
Josip Novakovich teaches in the mfa program at Penn State University. He has published eight books and received a Whiting Award, American Book Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Russia, which financed adopting, nursing, and emigrating the unfortunate cat to our gun-toting land of liberty.
R. T. Smith is Writer in Residence at Washington and Lee University, where he edits Shenandoah. His books of stories include Faith, Uke Rivers Delivers, and The Calaboose Epistles, just published by Iris Press. His work has received Pushcart Prizes, NEA Fellowships, state arts grants, two Library of Virginia Awards, and Governor’s Awards in the Arts from both Alabama and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia, with his wife, the writer Sarah Kennedy.
Steve Stern is the author of several novels and short story collections, including Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction, and The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award. His latest books are the novel The Angel of Forgetfulness and The North of God, a novella.
S. L. Wisenberg is the author of an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, & Other Obsessions, and a short collection, The Sweetheart Is In. She turned her blog into a book: The Adventures of Cancer Bitch (U of Iowa P). [End Page 181]
Poetry
Kara Candito is author of Taste of Cherry, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press and winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and critical prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2007, Poet Lore, Florida Review, and Pedestal Review. She has received an Academy of American Poets prize and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has worked in the publishing industry in New York City, taught English as a second language in Rome, and earned an mfa in poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at Florida State University, where she specializes in poetry and literary theory.
Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave, and a member of the O’odham/Pima tribe. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to complete her mfa in 2007. She has poetry and fiction published or forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, and others. She lives in Surprise! Arizona.
Patrick Durgin is a poet-critic whose most recent publications include The Route, a collaboration with Jen Hofer (Atelos), and contributions to Contemporary Women’s Writing, Denver Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, Textsound, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. New poems are forthcoming in the “A Tonalist” feature in the literary journal Aufgabe, and a new essay on the work of Lyn Hejinian is slated for Aerial: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory. Durgin teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jenny Factor is core faculty in poetry at the Antioch University Los Angeles mfa program...
