Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Larry Bradley’s work has appeared in the New Republic, the New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Southwest Review, and previously in New England Review.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was a prolific late Victorian English writer, most widely celebrated as the author of The Way of All Flesh, an autobiographical novel published poshumously, and of the satires titled Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. He also produced a series of works exploring the far-reaching implications of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and such provocations as The Authoress of The Odyssey and Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered, and In Part Rearranged.
Norman Davies is the author of Europe: A History (Oxford University Press, 1996), a number one bestseller in Britain; The Isles (Oxford, 1999); God’s Playground (Columbia University Press, 1982), an award-winning history of Poland; and, most recently, No Simple Victory (Viking Penguin, 2007). Professor Emeritus at London University, he lives in Oxford and Crakow.
Tim Fitts lives and works in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters. His photographs have appeared as cover art for New England Review and American Literary Review. His fiction has appeared in journals such as Gettysburg Review, Xavier Review, and Connecticut Review, among others.
Ian Ganassi’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals including Octopus, Ploughshares, Sawbuck, Paris Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Fogged Clarity, and The Journal, among many others. His translations from the Aeneid have appeared in NER on numerous occasions. Images from a collaboration with a painter friend can be found at www.thecorpses.com. He lives in New Haven, where he works as a percussionist and teacher.
Adam Giannelli’s poems have appeared in Field, Southwest Review, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and other journals. He is the editor of High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 2006).
Janice Greenwood is working to complete her first book of poetry. Her poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (W. W. Norton, 2004), and Quantum Lyrics (W. W. Norton, 2007). He teaches at the University of Michigan. [End Page 195]
Laura Kasischke’s most recent collection of poetry, Space, in Chains, was published in 2011 by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Peter Lasalle’s short story collection Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism (2007) is being reissued this spring in paperback by University of Georgia Press. A new novel, Mariposa’s Song, is forthcoming later in 2012 from Texas Tech University Press. His stories have been selected for many anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, Best of the West, Sports Best Short Stories, Best American Fantasy, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In 2005 he received the Award for Distinguished Prose from the Antioch Review.
Theodore Leinwand is professor of English at the University of Maryland. The most recent essays in his series on poets reading Shakespeare are on Ted Hughes in New England Review and on John Berryman in the Hopkins Review.
Jonathan Levy is the author of many plays for adults and children as well as several works of scholarship and criticism. He is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has contributed frequently to NER.
Matthew Olzmann’s first book of poems, Mezzanines, was selected for the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize and will be published by Alice James Books in 2013. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Review, Failbetter, and elsewhere.
Eileen Pollack’s most recent books are a story collection, In the Mouth (2008), and a novel, Breaking and Entering (2012), both published by Four Way Books. She teaches on the faculty of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Zana Previti was born and raised in New England. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of California, Irvine, where she is at work on her first novel. Her fiction has appeared most recently in Hayden...
