Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Julia Cooke is a frequent contributor to Guernica and Condé Nast Traveller (UK) and has written for the Village Voice, the Atlantic Cities, Metropolis, Monocle, the Christian Science Monitor, and Design Observer. She has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and Columbia University, where she teaches undergraduate creative writing. Her first book, The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba, is forthcoming from Seal Press.
Elizabeth Daniels is a photographer based in her native Los Angeles. She has worked for Curbed, Eater, and Racked LA for four years, and her photographs have been used by Rolling Stone, Bon Appétit, Playboy, GQ, and Elle magazine. Previously, she curated Michael G Wilson’s photography collection and worked at the Getty Museum.
Chris Offutt is the author of five books, including the short-story collection Kentucky Straight (Vintage, 1992), the novel The Good Brother (Simon & Schuster, 1998), and the memoir No Heroes (Simon & Schuster, 2002). He has written television scripts for Weeds and True Blood and received fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at the University of Mississippi.
Meera Subramanian is an independent journalist who writes for Nature, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Orion, and many others. She won multiple awards for her previous piece in VQR, “India’s Vanishing Vultures” (2011), and is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow working on a book of interwoven nonfiction stories about the environment in India, based on the five elements (PublicAffairs, 2015).
Natasha Trethewey, a VQR contributing editor, is the author of four poetry collections and a book of creative nonfiction. Her honors include the Pulitzer Prize, for Native Guard (Mariner, 2007), and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012, she was appointed US Poet Laureate. Her most recent collection of poems is Thrall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). [End Page 7]
Steven Amsterdam’s first book, Things We Didn’t See Coming (Pantheon, 2010), was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Age Book of the Year Award in 2010. His latest novel is What the Family Needed (Riverhead Books, 2013). He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Evgenia Arbugaeva has won numerous photography competitions, including the Leica Oscar Barnack prize, and is a recipient of a grant from the Magnum Foundation, which supported her Tiksi project.
Peter Balakian’s most recent book of poems is Ziggurat (Chicago, 2010). In 2012, he was the recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice Diplomacy and Tolerance. His memoir Black Dog of Fate (Basic, 1997) was awarded the PEN/Albrand Prize. He directs the creative writing program at Colgate University.
Carlene Bauer is the author of the memoir Not That Kind of Girl (HarperCollins, 2010). Her work has been published in the Village Voice, Salon, Elle, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives and writes in Brooklyn.
Lauren Simkin Berke is a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. She has won awards from Print magazine and American Illustration, and her most recent exhibit, To Be Kept, was shown at Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City.
Will Boast’s story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa, 2011), won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, Narrative, Salon, and the New York Times. His memoir, Epilogue, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton Co./ Liveright.
Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. is the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is the Emily Brown and Jefferies Professor of English and the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies.
Stephen Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor of English at Harvard University. His most recent poetry collection, Belmont, was published by Graywolf Press in 2013. He is the author of two previous books of poetry and five books of criticism, including Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf, 2009), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Maisie Crow is a freelance photographer and multimedia...
