Contributors
- Contributors
Wendy Barker has published five collections of poems and three chapbooks. A recipient of Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, and The Gettysburg Review. She is poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Roy Bentley’s work has been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. His forthcoming collection, Starlight Taxi, won the 2012 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry.
Ciaran Berry is the author of The Sphere of Birds and The Dead Zoo, which was recently published. His poetry has appeared lately in AGNI, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review.
Chana Bloch has published four books of poetry, most recently Blood Honey. She has also translated several poetry collections. The recipient of the 2012 Meringoff Poetry Award, she taught for many years at Mills College, where she directed the creative writing program.
Karina Borowicz’s collection The Bees Are Waiting was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and has been named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, and Columbia Poetry Review.
Lydia Conklin has received numerous awards, including a Pushcart prize, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo, among others. Her fiction has appeared or will appear in Narrative Magazine, FiveChapters, and New Letters. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [End Page v]
Rebecca Dunham is the author of Glass Armonica, The Flight Cage, and The Miniature Room. Her poems have been published in The Antioch Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. She is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Hannah Gersen’s fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Chattahoochee Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and North American Review. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
Stephen Gibson’s fifth poetry collection, Rorschach Art Too, which contains “The Flayed Ox,” printed herein, has won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize from West Chester University and will be published this June. His story collection, The Persistence of Memory, was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Spokane Prize and is forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
Gary Gildner has received the National Magazine Award for fiction, Pushcart prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and the Iowa Poetry Prize. His 1990 memoir, The Warsaw Sparks, about coaching baseball in Communist Poland was reissued in 2008 by University of Nebraska Press.
David Heddendorf’s most recent essay in The Southern Review was “The Thrill of Intellect.” He also writes criticism for The Sewanee Review.
Greg Hrbek is the author of a novel, The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, and a collection of stories, Destroy All Monsters and Other Stories, which was awarded the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories 2009.
Thomas E. Kennedy’s Kerrigan in Copenhagen: A Love Story, is the third volume of his Copenhagen Quartet—four independent novels portraying the souls and seasons of the Danish capital. The fourth, Beneath the Neon Egg, will appear in 2014. His essays and stories have recently run in EPOCH, Boston Review, and New Letters. He teaches in Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA program.
Angie Kim’s stories and personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Salon, The Asian American Literary Review, and Slate. She won the 2012 Glamour Essay Contest and the 2013 Wabash Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Seoul, [End Page vi] South Korea, she was educated at Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of Harvard Law Review.
J. T. Ledbetter was born on a farm in Southern Illinois but grew up in Southern California. He is a professor emeritus at California Lutheran University, where he teaches creative writing and...
