Contributors
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Cover photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis, © 2013.
Thomas Sayers Ellis co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Maverick Room, which won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers' Award. His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, Best American Poetry, jubilat, Poetry, and elsewhere. His newest collection of poetry is Skin, Inc. (Graywolf P).
Prose
Lauren Acampora's fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, and Antioch Review, among other publications. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter.
Mi Ditmar was born and raised in Traverse City, Michigan. She graduated from the MFA program in creative writing at Syracuse University where she is currently the Mellon Coordinator for The Humanities Center. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Stone Canoe. A collection of poetry by Pakistani writer Zeeshan Sahil that she co-translated was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. as part of the Lannan Translation Series.
Roxane Gay's writing appears or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Virginia Quarterly Review, New York Times, Salon, Rumpus, American Short Fiction, and many others.
Marsha Rabe was born in Dubuque, Iowa. She has worked as a university administrator while devoting her personal time to writing and advocating for animal rights. She had a short story published in the Atlantic Monthly and a personal essay in the New York Times. That essay subsequently appeared in two writing textbooks. Her poem "Guests of Gravity" was a finalist in Narrative.com's Second Annual Poetry Contest. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her husband, Thomas Brown, a photographer.
Deborah Taffa was born for the Keepers on the Water Clan on the Fort Yuma Reservation. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she teaches literature and creative writing to aspiring undergraduate students. Her essays and poetry have [End Page 167] appeared in Brevity, Solstice, Drunken Boat, and Best Travel Writing, among other publications. She recently entered the world of performance autobiography and is hard at work on her first story collection.
Damian Van Denburgh lives with his wife in New York City. His work has been published in the New York Times and Fourth Genre, and online at Knee-Jerk magazine, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and Storyscape. He is a fellow in nonfiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and he has had residencies at the Millay Colony and the MacDowell Colony.
Natalie Vestin is a writer and health researcher. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Alligator Juniper, Chautauqua, Bellingham Review, Identity Theory, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of Crab Orchard Review's 2013 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. Recent travels within the southern United States have confirmed that she corresponds to many Minnesota stereotypes. She lives in Saint Paul.
Poetry
Priscilla Atkins's poems have appeared in Poetry London, Salmagundi, Shenandoah, and other journals. She received her MFA from Spalding University and lives in Holland, Michigan.
Michael Bazzett's new poems are forthcoming in cream city review, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and Literary Imagination, and his work has recently appeared on Verse Daily and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook The Imaginary City was recently published in the OW! Arts Chapbook Series, and They: A Field Guide (Barge P) is forthcoming. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.
Jesse Breite lives and teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, although he was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and considers it his home. Jesse writes each night around 10 p.m. est while his new wife, Emily, falls asleep.
Jona Colson's poetry has appeared in Subtropics, Crab Orchard Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. He lives in Washington, DC.
John Freeman is the editor of Granta magazine. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, ZYZZVA, and the Buenos Aires Review. He is the author of the books The Tyranny of E-mail (Scribner) and How to Read a Novelist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He lives in New York and London.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of three books...
