Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Dominique Aury (1907–98) was the general secretary of Nouvelle Revue Française from 1953 until her death in April 1998 and an influential figure in postwar French publishing. She was also a distinguished translator from English into French. Her critical essays—whose subjects range from Chrétien de Troyes to Albert Camus—were collected in Lecture pour tous (1958), which won the Grand Prix de la Critique, and in Lecture pour tous, 2 (1999).
Jeremy Bass's poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Pleiades, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cortland Review, and other journals. He lives in New York City, where he works as a private tutor and professional guitarist.
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins, selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize and forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and of Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She was the 2008–09 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral candidate and King/Chávez/Parks Fellow.
David Castronuovo, visiting assistant professor of Italian at Skidmore College, has authored a number of articles on the poet Giacomo Leopardi, including "'Ignorance of the Whole': Iconographic Affinities Between 'L'infinito' and the Transfiguration of Lorenzo Lotto" (with Guerrino Lovato). His translation of Arrigo Boito's "The Black Bishop" appeared in the New England Review in 2004.
Mark Doty is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins), which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. He teaches at Rutgers University and lives in New York.
S. L. Ferarro's fiction has appeared in the Long Story, Dalhousie Review, and New Orphic Review; her articles and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, Americana, the NY Daily News, and other places. She has published two books of nonfiction on language and lives in Copperopolis, California, not far from where Mark Twain wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Samar Farah Fitzgerald is a graduate of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, where she was the recipient of the August Derleth Prize in fiction and the Friends of Creative Writing award. She now lives in Staunton, Virginia, and teaches creative writing at James Madison University. Her fiction has appeared in the Southern Review, Story Quarterly Online, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel.
Castle Freeman Jr. is the author of four novels and many stories, five of which have been published in the New England Review. His most recent novel, All That I Have, was published in 2009 by Steerforth Press (Hanover, New Hampshire). He lives in Newfane, Vermont.
Thomas Gough is the pen name of Thom Conroy, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Massey University in New Zealand. His fiction has appeared in various journals, including Agni, Alaska [End Page 188] Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and New England Review. He is currently finishing work on a novel, An Ark of Specimens, featuring the German naturalist Dr. Ernst Dieffenbach and his 1839 expedition to New Zealand.
Debora Greger is the author, most recently, of Men, Women, and Ghosts (Penguin, 2008). By Herself, a new collection of poems, will be published next year.
Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The latest of her many books is a memoir, Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (Paul Dry Books, 2011); her most recent poetry collection is The Ache of Appetite (Copper Beach Press, 2010). She is coeditor of an anthology of translations of Greek poetry, The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009).
Ellen Hinsey is the author of Update on the Descent (University of Notre Dame, 2009), The White Fire of Time (Wesleyan, 2002), and Cities...
