Contributors
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"Villanelle." Chromogenic-print with words by Soyoung Jung © 2009 Corwin Levi.
Corwin Levi realized at a young age that the drawings in the notebook margins were as important as the notes on the rest of the page. He spent 2010 traveling the world for shows and residencies. He happily concluded the year in Nebraska City at the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts.
Prose
Stephen C. Behrendt teaches British Romantic-era literature and culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His most recent collection of poems is History.
Greg Hrbek is the author of The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly and a forthcoming collection of short stories, Destroy All Monsters, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, Black Warrior Review, The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories, and The Best American Short Stories 2009.
John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His latest books are The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph, Circling Home, and Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems.
Helen Elaine Lee is an associate professor in mit's Writing and Humanistic Studies program. Her first novel, The Serpent's Gift, was published by Atheneum, and her second novel, Water Marked, was published by Scribner. "Alphabet" is part of her next novel manuscript "Life Without," which is about the lives of ten people who are incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons. She has volunteered as a creative writing teacher at several Massachusetts prisons for the last nine years.
David Torrey Peters received an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow. His work has been published in Epoch, Indiana Review, Fourth Genre, the Pinch, and Best Travel Writing.
Gregory Blake Smith's collection of short stories The Law of Miracles—from which "Punishment" is drawn—recently won the Juniper Prize and will appear in the spring of 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Press. He is the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.
Poetry
M. Shahid Alam's translations of Ghalib have appeared in Chicago Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kimera, and Salt River Review.
Gaylord Brewer founded and edits the journal Poems & Plays. His eighth [End Page 181] book of poetry is Give Over, Graymalkin (Red Hen P). He teaches at Middle Tennessee State University.
Sigman Byrd is the author of Under the Wanderer's Star (Marsh Hawk P) and has a new chapbook coming out soon with Finishing Line Press. He has recently published poems in American Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Madrid, and Sou'wester.
Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess, published by Steel Toe Books. Her poems have been featured on npr's The Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily. Her new book, She Returns to the Floating World, is forthcoming from Kitsune Books in fall 2011.
Susan Gubernat's first book of poems, Flesh, won the Marianne Moore Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cortland Review, Michigan Quarterly, and others. She is an associate professor at California State University, East Bay, where she and her students have launched a new national literary magazine, Arroyo Literary Review.
Lilah Hegnauer is the author of Dark Under Kiganda Stars from Ausable Press. She teaches in the English Department at James Madison University.
Benjamin Jackson's poems have appeared in New England Review, the Hudson Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He currently teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco.
Roxane Beth Johnson is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her first book of poetry is Jubilee (Anhinga). Her work has also appeared in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Georgia Review, Image, Callaloo, and elsewhere.
John Kinsella's most recent volume of poetry is Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography (W. W. Norton) with a new volume, Disturbed Ground: Jam Tree Gully/Walden, due out with W.W. Norton in November 2011. His Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon...
