Contributors
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"NYC, 2005" [0509.4052] from "The New York Series 2002–2006"
Roger Bruhn is a longtime Lincoln artist who received the 2008 Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts. He is represented by Modern Arts Midwest and has work in the collections of all the major museums in the state.
Prose
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels including Raw Silk, Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone. Bridge of Sand will appear from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2009. Among her recent works are the plays Medea with Child, Sweepstakes, and Parts of Speech; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; the second edition of Imaginative Writing; and the seventh edition of Writing Fiction. She is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Paul Eggers teaches creative writing at California State University, Chico. He's the author of a novel, Saviors (Harcourt Brace), and two short-fiction collections, How the Water Feels (Southern Methodist UP) and The Departure Lounge (forthcoming spring 2009, Ohio State UP).
Lydia Peelle's work has appeared in Best New American Voices 2007 as well as in Epoch, the Sun, and other magazines. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and recently received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Poetry
Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer, winner of the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse and Gulf Coast.
John Canaday's first book of poems, The Invisible World, won the 2001 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is the author of a critical study, The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. The poems in this issue are from Critical Assembly, a series of poems in the voices of the scientists, spouses, laborers, locals, and military personnel involved in the Manhattan Project.
Felecia Caton Garcia holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in journals such as Indiana Review, Blue Mesa Review, and the Northwest Review.
Karen Craigo, editor in chief of Mid-American Review, is the author of Stone for an Eye, published by Kent State University Press. Her work has [End Page 187] appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, and others.
Mary Crow, poet and translator, is Colorado's poet laureate. Her books of poetry include I Have Tasted the Apple, Borders, and three chapbooks. Her poetry translations are Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets, From the Country of Nevermore (Jorge Teillier), Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems (Roberto Juarroz), and Engravings Torn from Reality (Olga Orozco). Her honors include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts as well as three Fulbright awards.
Gary Fincke's latest collection, The Fire Landscape, has just been published by the University of Arkansas Press. His recent poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Literary Review.
Paula Goldman's poetry book The Great Canopy won the Gival Poetry Award 2004. Her poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, the North American Review, and Cream City Review. She has won INKWELL's (Manhattanville College) poetry competition and the Louisiana Literature Award for poetry. Her poem "In the Musée d'Orsay" recently appeared in Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, published by Knopf.
Jennifer Gresham received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Maryland. Her poems have recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Ledge. She is the author of Diary of a Cell, winner of the Steel Toe Books poetry prize.
Susan Elizabeth Howe's first collection, Stone Spirits, won the publication award of the Redd Center for Western Studies. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and other journals. She is a reviewer and contributing editor for Tar River Poetry. She and her husband, Cless Young, live in a small town in central Utah; they have also taught and...
