About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Tony Birch writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. His story in this issue is from his collection of linked stories, Shadowboxing, which was short-listed for the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. He teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne and has worked as a writer and curator in collaboration with photographers, filmmakers, and artists.
Catherine Filloux has received numerous awards for her plays, including the Peace Writing Award and Callaway Award, and is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders. Her play in this issue premiered in 2004 at the National Asian American Theatre Company in New York City. The play received the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and the Eric Kocher Playwrights Award from the O’Neill Theatre. Her other honors include selection as a Fulbright senior specialist, Thurber playwright-in-residence, Asian Cultural Council grant recipient, and Heideman Award finalist.
Luis H. Francia is a poet, nonfiction writer, and journalist. He has published three collections of poetry, the latest being Museum of Absences (2004). His memoir, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He writes a monthly online column for Manila’s Philippine Daily Inquirer. He lives in Queens and teaches at New York University.
Karen Gernant has collaborated with Chen Zeping on translations published in Mänoa, turnrow, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Words Without Borders, and Ninth Letter.
John W. Hood has published several books on Indian art cinema and has translated Niharranjan Ray’s History of the Bengali People, a volume of poems by Buddhadeb Dasgupta titled Love and Other Forms of Death, two novels by Buddhadev Guha, and six novels and two collections of short stories by Prafulla Roy.
Ann Hunkins is a poet, photographer, translator of Nepali, and former Fulbright grantee. She has been traveling to Nepal for twenty years. In 2006, during the Maoist conflict, she worked as an interpreter for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, interviewing torture victims, war-crime witnesses, and others. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [End Page 222]
Wayne Karlin is the author of seven novels and two memoirs. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paterson Prize in Fiction, and the Viet Nam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award. Professor of Language and Literature at the College of Southern Maryland, he edits the Voices from Viet Nam Fiction Series for Curbstone Press.
John Keolamaka‘äinana Lake is a kumu hula, chanter, and retired teacher from Saint Louis High School. His chant and dance education began in childhood under the tutelage of his grand aunt, Ka‘ehukai of Lähaina; other mentors included Edith Kanaka‘ole, Maiki Aiu Lake, Mary Kawena Pukui, ‘Iolani Luahine, and Henry Mo‘ikeha Pä. He is the kumu-in-residence at Chaminade University and the head of Hälau Mele, a Hawaiian arts academy.
Barry Lopez is an essayist and fiction writer. His works include Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist and recipient of the John Burroughs and Christopher medals; and eight works of fiction, including Light Action in the Caribbean, Crow and Weasel, and Resistance. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground and About This Life.
Oren Lyons is a Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan among the Onondaga people of western New York. He is a professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo and is the publisher of Daybreak, a national Native American magazine. He is the recipient of national and international awards, and for more than three decades has been a defining presence in the areas of international indigenous rights and sovereignty.
Alberto Manguel is a translator, editor, essayist, and novelist. He was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Israel, where his father was the Argentine ambassador. In 1982, he moved to Canada; he now lives in France, where he was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. He is...
