About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Tama Baldwin's essays have appeared in River Teeth, Gulf Coast, Queens Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and Tarpaulin Sky. A chapbook of her poems, Garden, was published in 2006 by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
Jocelyn Bartkevicius, who is regretfully ending her tenure as book review editor of Fourth Genre, is now the editor of the Florida Review and director of the MFA program at the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in such journals as the Hudson Review, the Missouri Review (as winner of the editor's prize in the essay), and the Bellingham Review (as winner of the Annie Dillard Award). She is completing a memoir, The Emerald Room.
Richard Blankenship has received awards for poetry and journalism. He is currently involved with Ghostdances of Little Egypt (home of "Behind the Blind") and celebrating half a lifetime since kidney transplant in March 1985—subject of his first book, Mirrorirrored.
Michael P. Branch is Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is book review editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and coeditor of the University of Virginia Press book series Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. His recent creative nonfiction has appeared in Orion, Ecotone, Isotope, Whole Terrain, Hawk and Handsaw, New South, and Watershed. [End Page 165] His most recent book is Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden (University of Georgia Press).
Nancy Canyon holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of three unpublished novels and an in-process memoir. Her writing has recently appeared in Main Street Rag, Exhibition, Her Mark, Sacred Waters, and more. She teaches writing and art privately in Fairhaven, Washington, a pleasant village by the bay where she lives with her cat, Sid Canyon. Her website is www.nancycanyon.com.
Aaron Gilbreath enjoys reverb and twang. He's written essays and articles, some forthcoming, for Mississippi Review, Saranac Review, Poets & Writers, High Country News, Alimentum, Men's Journal, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and High Desert Journal.
Steven Harvey is the author of three collections of essays, including his most recent book, Bound for Shady Grove. He teaches English and creative writing at Young Harris College in the north Georgia mountains and is a member of the faculty in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Ashland University.
Amy Hassinger is the author of two novels, The Priest's Madonna and Nina: Adolescence. She teaches in the University of Nebraska Low-Residency MFA in Writing Program. She is currently at work on a third novel.
Ames Hawkins is a faculty member in the English Department at Columbia College, Chicago. Current writing and research interests include HIV&AIDS, genderqueer culture, and artistic activism.
Patricia Hohl is an Associate Professor at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. Her essays and poems have been published in Hunger Mountain, Bellingham Review, CT Review, and Pebble Lake Review.
Geeta Kothari is the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including [End Page 166] the New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fourth Genre, and Best American Essays. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Kim Dana Kupperman's essays have appeared in AGNI Online, Alimentum, Best American Essays 2006, Brevity, Hotel Amerika,Nightsun, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Honors include a 2008 fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; notable mentions in Best American Essays 2007, Best American Essays 2008, and the Pushcart Prize XXXI; the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize; and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, devoted to publishing and celebrating the essay in all its forms. She works as the managing editor of the Gettysburg Review.
Patrick Madden is the author of Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), a collection of essays. His work (essay, interview, roundtable, book reviews) has appeared often in Fourth Genre.
Joan Marcus's essays and stories have appeared in The Sun, Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. She is a two...
