Contributors
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Painting by Xu Yinsen, Professor Emeritus of the Chinese National Academy of Fine Arts. He is a painter, calligrapher, and seal carver.
Prose
Sheri Joseph is the author of the novel Stray (MacAdam/Cage), which was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize, and a cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over (Grove/Atlantic). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She serves as fiction editor of Five Points.
Michael P. Kardos has had short stories in the Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Prism International, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, and elsewhere. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in music and played the drums professionally for several years before going to graduate school for creative writing. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Mississippi State University.
David Samuel Levinson is the author of the forthcoming novel Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence (Algonquin Books) as well as the story collection Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will (Viking UK). He won an award for his fiction in the Atlantic Monthly and was a New York Times Residency Fellow at Yaddo. His stories have appeared in the Brooklyn Review among others. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Hilary Masters's new collection of essays, In Rooms of Memory, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the fall of 2009. He will also publish a collection of new and selected short fiction, The Italian Grammor, under the imprint of Southern Methodist University Press. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Lee Zacharias has recent work in Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Humanities Review, and The Best American Essays 2008. Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she has published Helping Muriel Make It Through the Night, a collection of stories, and the novel Lessons.
Poetry
Eleanor Berry has poems in recent issues of Crab Orchard Review, Dogwood, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and Nimrod, and one in the anthology Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C & R Press). A collection, Green November, was recently published by Traprock Books.
Thomas J. Braga, professor emeritus of French (SUNY Plattsburgh), was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He has published eleven books of poetry, among them Portingales, Chants Fugitifs (in French), Coffee in the Woodwinds, Motley Coats, Amory, and Brush Strokes. [End Page 201]
T. Alan Broughton lives in Burlington, Vermont. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and NEA Award, he has published novels, poems, and stories. His most recent books include his seventh collection of poems, A World Remembered (Carnegie Mellon UP), and a collection of short stories, Suicidal Tendencies (Colorado State UP).
Roberto Christiano's poetry has been featured in Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters, the Hiram Review, the Sow's Ear, and Red River Review. Two of his plays were produced at the Source Theatre in Washington dc. He also coscripted the film Flowers from Albert, which aired on Metrovision cable.
Art Coelho grew up on two family farms in Central California. His grandparents were from the Azores: São Jorge, Terceira, and Pico Islands. He is a novelist, a short story writer, a painter, and the founder of the rural and working class press, Seven Buffaloes Press. He danced in the Crow Sun Dance in 1971 at Pierce Siding, Montana.
Nancy Vieira Couto's poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Salamander, Southern Review, The Giant Book of Poetry, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. Her book The Face in the Water won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is also the author of a chapbook, Carlisle & the Common Accident, forthcoming from FootHills Publishing. She lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is poetry editor of Epoch.
Stephen Dunn is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including What Goes On: Selected and New Poems, 1995–2009, in which the poems in this issue appear. His Different Hours won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
Jennifer Borges Foster is a poet, bookmaker, and editor of Filter, a limited...
