About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
William Bradley, Assistant Professor of English at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC, has had work appear in the Missouri Review, The Normal School, College English, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Passages North, the Bellevue Literary Review, and other magazines. He is currently essaying a book of linked essays.
Joe Bonomo's essays and prose poems have appeared recently in Brevity, New Ohio Review, Storyscape, Hotel Amerika, Free Verse, and the “Lyric Essay” issue of Seneca Review. He is the author of Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found 2009, Installations (National Poetry Series, 2008), Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America's Garage Band 2007, and a forthcoming book about AC/DC's Highway to Hell for Continuum's 331/3 Series. He teaches at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
Tom Coakley is an active-duty military officer who has served in South America, Asia, Africa, and the Mideast. He is currently stationed in the American Midwest.
Kate Dernocoeur will earn her MFA in Nonfiction from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in May 2010. As a journalist, she wrote for the Emergency Medical Services community from 1979 to 2003. Kate indulges her incurable wanderlust as often as possible, but returns occasionally to her home in Lowell, Michigan. [End Page 181]
R. S. Gilbert, who operated a sheep farm for a decade, is writing a memoir about farming and Appalachia.
Andrea W. Herrmann is a Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and teaches nonfiction writing courses in travel, nature and the environment, and the Middle East at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and periodicals, and she is currently working on personal essays about the animals in her life.
Sandra Hurtes is a writer and Adjunct Professor living in Manhattan. She writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Poets & Writers, and numerous other publications. Her essay collection On My Way to Someplace Else is forthcoming from Poetica Publishing Company.
Carolyn Jackson is a writer who blogs about progressive politics with a feminist and spiritual focus at http://progwoman.com . She lives in New York City and spends time in Bluff, Utah.
Laura Julier is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures at Michigan State University in East Lansing. She has coedited a special issue of Midwestern Miscellany, gathering essays about midwestern places. And she is currently at work on a book about a particular piece of land off a dirt road and along the Iowa River, from which an excerpt was selected for second place in the Iowa Policy Project's essay contest last year.
Zachary Martin is a graduate of the University of Chicago, University College London, and the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lumina, Washington Square, Zaum, and the Southeast Review. He teaches at the College of Staten Island and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Nancy McCabe's books are After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening (Purdue, 2003) and Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption (Missouri, 2003). Her work has won a Pushcart Prize for memoir, received several Pushcart nominations, been listed twice in the notable section of Best American Essays, and won two awards from Prairie Schooner. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Newsweek, Writer's Digest, Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, [End Page 182] Hayden's Ferry Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. She directs the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and teaches in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University in Louisvile, KY.
Donald Morrill is the author of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper, The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger's Neighborhood. He has taught at Jilin University, People's Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Currently, he serves on the AWP Board of Directors and is Associate Dean of Graduate and...
