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  • Contributors

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"NYC, 2005" (0509.5458) by Roger Bruhn, from "The New York Series, 2002-2006"

Roger Bruhn was recently the recipient of the 2008 Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts in Lincoln, NE. He is represented by Modern Arts Midwest. His work has been collected by all of the major museums in Nebraska.

Prose

Evelyn Funda's creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, South Dakota Review, and Green Hills Literary Lantern and in the book Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Mariner Books). She is currently at work on a memoir about her rural family's relation to the land.

Gaynell Gavin is the author of Intersections (Main Street Rag). Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fourth Genre, and North Dakota Quarterly. Her work is forthcoming in the anthologies Of Risk, Courage, and Women (U of North Texas P) and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (Bellevue Literary P).

Paul Kilgore lives with his wife and two daughters in Duluth, Minnesota. His work has appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. He is a past winner of Minnesota Monthly's Tamarack Award for Short Fiction.

Gregory S. Phillian's recent fiction has been published in South Carolina Review, Chattahoochee Review, Chicago Quarterly, and River Styx.

Mitch Wieland is the author of the novel Willy Slater's Lane (Southern Methodist University P). His short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Shenandoah, the Sewanee Review, and others. He is the founding editor of the Idaho Review and is the recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. He has a new collection forthcoming from SMU from which this story is taken.

Poetry

Christianne Balk is the author of Bindweed (Macmillan P) and Desiring Flight (Purdue UP). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Under the Rock Umbrella, among other magazines and anthologies. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.

Sharon Balter is a physician and epidemiologist at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Her poems have appeared in 5 AM. [End Page 193]

Hadara Bar-Nadav's book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House) was awarded the Margie Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and others.

Erinn Batykefer is currently the Stadler Poetry Fellow at Bucknell University where she is associate editor of West Branch. Her first collection, Allegheny, Monongahela, won the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Prize and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and Threepenny Review, among others.

Andrew Becraft lives in Seattle, Washington. He blogs about LEGO and works for a large software company in Redmond. Although his work appears in twenty-four languages on computers worldwide, this is his first publication in a literary journal.

Marvin Bell's latest book of poems, Mars Being Red, was published in 2007 by Copper Canyon Press. He now teaches for the brief-residency MFA program based in Oregon at Pacific University.

Bruce Bond's most recent books include Radiography (BOA Editions), The Throats of Narcissus (U of Arkansas P), Cinder (Etruscan P), and Blind Rain (Louisiana State UP). He is currently the poetry editor for American Literary Review.

Annie Boutelle was born and raised in Scotland. She is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry (Bucknell UP). Her second book of poems, Nest of Thistles (Northeastern UP) won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize in 2005. She has been published in the Georgia Review, Hudson Review, and Poetry.

Allen Braden has received fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust of Washington State. His book, A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood, is forth-coming in the VQR poetry series from the University of Georgia Press.

Jenna M. Coughlin resides in Chicago, where she teaches second grade in the Englewood neighborhood. This is her first publication.

James Crews completed his MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Other work appears or...

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