Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
George Makana Clark grew up in Zimbabwe of British and Xhosa descent. He is the author of the short-story collection The Small Bees’ Honey; his writing has appeared in Zoetrope, Glimmer Train, and the Southern Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Trevor Corson is the managing editor of Transition. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, AsianWeek, the Christian Science Monitor, and Dollars and Sense.
Naresh Fernandes is a copy editor on the overseas desk of the Wall Street Journal and has worked in Bombay for the Associated Press and the Times of India. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Culturefront, City Limits, and India Magazine.
Anne Lounsbery is a lecturer in Russian literature at Harvard University. She is working on a comparative study of literary nationalism in nineteenth-century Russia and America. She wishes to acknowledge the work of Thomas Shaw and Dale Peterson, whose research informed this article.
Heather Love is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia.
Ilan Stavans teaches at Amherst College and edits Hopscotch: A Cultural Review. His new books Latino U.S.A.: A Cartoon History and The Essential Ilan Stavans will be published this fall. A version of “Reading César” will appear as the preface to the new edition of Peter Matthiessen’s Sal Si Puedes, published by the University of California Press.
Farah Stockman is an independent journalist in East Africa. She was a correspondent for Internews at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Her work has appeared on National Public Radio and in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and the book International Humanitarian Law: Origins, Challenges, and Prospects.
Yvonne Vera is the regional director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. She is the author of Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals and the novels Nehanda and Under the Tongue, winner of the 1997 Regional Commonwealth Prize. “Thorns” is adapted from her novel Butterfly Burning; the American edition will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September.
