Contributors
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Cover
"Damon." Gouache on paper. ©2010 Matthew Carlson
Matthew Carlson is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he earned his BFA in painting. Along with Phillip Faulkner, Carlson was curator for vision/re-envision, which won an Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award For Best Group Exhibition and for which Carlson received a Best Emerging Visual Artist Award.
Prose
Eric Barnes is the author of the novel Shimmer. He has been a reporter, construction worker, editor, and newspaper publisher. He has publishing credits with Other Voices, Northwest Review, Greensboro Review, and Crazyhorse, among others.
Katie Chase's short fiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, Five Chapters, Narrative, and The Best American Short Stories. She's the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Michener-Copernicus Award. She grew up near Detroit.
Janet Abbott Dutton's first published work, "Old Enough," is one chapter from her memoir in progress. She began writing in her late 60s after questioning her father's written accounts of life in Idaho and Missouri, comparing them with the detailed memories of her older sister, Venetta Abbott.
Lisa Knopp is the author of four collections of essays: Field of Vision, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, The Nature of Home, and Interior Places. Her essay in this issue is part of a new collection, Three Rivers, about the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte rivers.
Glenna Luschei is the founder and publisher of Solo Press and the author of many chapbooks, special editions, and trade books, the latest being Salt Lick (West End P) and Witch Dance (Presa P). She was named poet laureate of San Luis Obispo city and county for the year 2000. Luschei has also published an artist's book of her translation of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Enigmas. She has received D. H. Lawrence and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and has been honored as a Nebraska Admiral.
Richard Spilman has published a collection of short fiction, Hot Fudge, and a collection of poetry, In the Night Speaking. Another book of short stories, The Estate Sale, is due soon from Texas Review Press.
Poetry
Marie-Claire Bancquart is a professor emerita at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and is the multiple prize-winning author of twenty-four collections of poetry, most recently Terre Energumène (Le Castor Astral). Her [End Page 170] latest book is a collection of critical essays and poems titled Entre marge et présence (Les écrits du Nord/éditions Henry). Her work has been featured in a number of French literary journals, including La Sape, Autre Sud, Nu(e), Friches, Poésie 2002, Arabesques, and on the site Internet Poezibao, "Spécial Marie-Claire Bancquart." Her work has also been the subject of two full-length critical texts: A la voix de Marie-Claire Bancquart by Peter Broome (Cherche-Midi) and In the Flesh of the Text: The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart, (Rodopi). These translations are of poems from her book, Avec la mort quartier d'orange entre les dents.
J. Mae Barizo's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Bellingham Review, Nimrod, Baltimore Review, and the Atlantic Review. She is a coeditor of Fields Press.
Michael Boccardo's work has been published in or is forthcoming from Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, Kakalak, and Poet Lore, among others. He is a recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and received an honorable mention in the 2009 Joy Harjo Poetry Competition. He also serves as an editorial assistant for Cave Wall.
Emma Bolden is the author of How to Recognize a Lady, a chapbook published as part of Edge by Edge, the third volume in Toadlily Press's Quartet Series. Her second chapbook, The Mariner's Wife, was published by Finishing Line Press, and a third, The Sad Epistles, was published by Dancing Girl Press. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Indiana Review, Feminist Studies, Verse, and Cimarron Review, among others.
Claudia Burbank's honors include the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, the Inkwell Prize, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts...
