Contributors
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Cover
David Lovekin "Shapeshifting" © 2009
David Lovekin is a professor of philosophy and Chair of Religion and Philosophy at Hastings College. He began as a photographer in 1968 but put the cameras down for twenty years. Five years ago he began exhibiting his work. He has done two covers for Prairie Schooner, one of which was exhibited at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Prose
Breja Gunnison recently graduated with honors in creative writing from Beloit College, where she was managing editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal. Another of her stories is forthcoming in Roanoke Review.
Heather Kirn's poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in over two dozen publications, among them the Southern Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, and on Verse Daily. "Thug-Life Sonnets" is from her memoir-inprogress, "The Terrordome of Charm City: Two Years in a West Baltimore High School."
Joy Ladin's poems and essays have been widely published. She is the author of two books of poetry, Alternatives to History and The Book of Anna, both from Sheep Meadow Press, which will also bring out her third book, Transmigration, in 2009.
Steve Oberlechner's previous nonfiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, and he has published short fiction in the Cortland Review. He earned his MFA from West Virginia University and teaches at Potomac State College in Keyser, WV.
Heather Sellers is the author of a collection of short stories, Georgia Under Water (Sarabande Books), and three volumes of poetry. Her textbook for the multigenre creative writing classroom is The Practice of Creative Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's). A memoir on face blindness is forthcoming.
Jenny Shank's fiction has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Cut-Bank, Image, Calyx, and other journals, and her journalism appears in the Onion and the Rocky Mountain News. Her first novel, The Ringer, will be published in 2011 by the Permanent Press. It was a semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and a Top 100 semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She is the Books & Writers editor of NewWest.Net.
Poetry
Rebecca Aronson has poems recently published or forthcoming in American Poetry Journal, Gulfstream, and Satellite Convulsions (Poems from Tin [End Page 178] House), among others. Her first book, Creature, Creature, came out in 2007 (Main-Traveled Roads P).
Devin Becker's poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Pinch, Cream City Review, Washington Square, and Faultline, among others. From Ft. Wayne, Indiana, he has returned to that state to pursue a library science degree at Indiana University.
Dana Bisignani, a car enthusiast and collector of antique dictionaries, was born in the south suburbs of Chicago and raised at the intersection of city and prairie. She currently resides in Indiana, where she is working toward a PhD in poetics at Purdue University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry East and Blue Collar.
Michelle Bitting has work forthcoming or published in Nimrod, Narrative, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Passages North, and others. In 2008 C & R Press published Good Friday Kiss, the winner of the DeNovo First Book Award.
Sara Burant's poems have appeared in a number of journals, including the Potomac Review and Calyx. In addition to writing poetry, she stewards ever-evolving gardens at both her home and community gardens in Eugene, Oregon.
John Casteen's poems have recently appeared in Shenandoah and the Paris Review. His first book, Free Union, was released in the spring of 2009.
Stephen Gibson's poetry collections are Masaccio's Expulsion (MARGIE/ IntuiT House) and Rorschach Art (Red Hen). The poems in this issue are from a new collection, "Frescoes," which has won the 2009 Idaho Prize and will be published by Lost Horse Press.
Stacy Gnall is from Cleveland, OH. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Florida Review, the Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, and the Spoon River Poetry Review.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of eleven books of poems and eight collections of translations from French, including Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen, which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation...
