Contributors
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Rosellen Brown's five novels include Before and After and Half a Heart, and her stories have appeared in half a dozen O. Henry, Best American Stories, and Pushcart Prize collections. She hopes to include "The Shaggiest Dog" in a collection to be called "Late Loves." She teaches in the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, including Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Her novel, Raw Silk, was the runner-up for the National Book Award, and Buzzards was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Recent works include the play Medea with Child, which was produced by Sideshow Theatre in Chicago.
Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (U of Nebraska P), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and others. She has appeared in Best New Poets and has received an Academy of American Poets Prize as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
James Engelhardt's poems have appeared in Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Hawk and Handsaw, Alligator Juniper, Saranac Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Work is forthcoming in the Fourth River and other journals. His ecopoetry manifesto is at octopusmagazine.com. He is the managing editor of Prairie Schooner.
Kate Flaherty's essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Rosebud, and elsewhere. She is a former managing editor for Prairie Schooner and is currently a senior editor at Ploughshares.
Erin Flanagan is the author of the short-story collection The Usual Mistakes (U of Nebraska P). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Florida Review, Crazyhorse, the Best New American Voices anthology series, and elsewhere. She is a former managing editor of Prairie Schooner.
Goldie Goldbloom's short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, and the anthology, Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires. Her novel Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders won the 2008 AWP Novel Award and is in its second printing in Australia (as The Paperbark Shoe). She has a story in a forthcoming anthology of emerging Australian writers. She also won the Jerusalem Post International Fiction Prize. Goldbloom lives with her eight children in Chicago.
Kelly Grey Carlisle's essays have appeared in River Teeth, Tampa Review, and Subtropics. Two of these essays were selected as notable essays in Best [End Page 201] American Essays 2006 and one was reprinted in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, edited by Michael Martone and Lex Williford. Recently she won second place in nonfiction in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest.
Sarah Kennedy is the author of six books of poems, including Home Remedies (LSU), A Witch's Dictionary (Elixir), Consider the Lilies (David Robert), Double Exposure (Cleveland State University Press), and Flow Blue (Elixir). She has received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts and is currently a contributing editor for West Branch and Shenandoah.
Karma Larsen worked for Prairie Schooner from 1981 to 1986.
Mari L'Esperance's collection The Darkened Temple was awarded the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. She lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Aaron Raz Link is a writer and teacher. By training, he is a historian and philosopher of science; he is also a graduate of the Dell' Arte School of Physical Theatre. He is the author, with Hilda Raz, of What Becomes You, a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Currently, he is working on a book about performance with the theatre artist and teacher Daniel Stein.
Glenna Luschei is the founder and publisher of Solo Press and the author of many chapbooks, special editions, and trade books, the latest being Salt Lick (West End P) and Witch Dance (Presa P). She was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo City and County for the year 2000. Luschei has also published an artist's book of her translation of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Enigmas. She has received the D.H. Lawrence...
