Notes on Contributors

183 Dan Albergotti’s poems have appeared in Ascent, Meridian, MidAmerican Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in July 2004, and the Richard Soref Scholar in Poetry at the 2004 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His chapbook, Charon’s Manifest, won the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Competition, and one of his poems was reprinted in Best New Poets 2005. He is also the winner of the 2005 Oneiros Press Poetry Broadside Competition. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently serves as poetry editor of storySouth (www.storysouth .com) and teaches at Coastal Carolina University. Karen E. Bender is the author of the novel Like Normal People (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Choice (MacAdam/Cage). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize series. JonathaCeelywasborninKingston,Ontario.ShehaslivedinTurkey and Italy, and currently lives and works in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her first novel, Mina, was published in 2004 by Delacorte Press, and her second, Bread and Dreams, by Delacorte Press in 2005. She is presently working on her third novel, set primarily in Ontario and Massachusetts in contemporary times. Christopher Cokinos is at work on a nonfiction book for Tarcher/Penguin tentatively titled The Fallen Sky: A Private History of Shooting Stars. The winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, Cokinos is the founding editor of Isotope and has work forthcoming in Orion and Turnrow. He has appointments in English and Natural Resources at Utah State University. notes on contributors 184 Ecotone: reimagining place Elizabeth Crane is the author of two previous story collections, When the Messenger is Hot (Little, Brown, 2003) and All This Heavenly Glory (Little, Brown, 2005). Her work has also been featured in publications including Other Voices, Nerve, the Chicago Reader, and the Believer, as well as several anthologies, including McSweeney’s Future Dictionary of America, The Best Underground Fiction, The Best Show of Their Lives, Loser, After, and Altared. She is the author of the blog Standby Bert (www.elizabethcrane.com/blog/index.html), read by at least a dozen people on a regular basis. Crane is also a regular contributor to Writer’s Block Party on WBEZ Chicago, a columnist for Punk Planet, and two of her short stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. In October 2003, she received the Chicago Public Library Twenty-first Century Award, granted by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Crane teaches creative writing at Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies, the School of the Art Institute, and the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Ben, and their dog, Percy. Tenaya Darlington has worked as a knife seller, an X-ray librarian , a back-up singer for a pop band, and a columnist for the alternative press since receiving her MFA from Indiana University in 1997. Now she lives and teaches in Philadelphia. Her books include Madame Deluxe (Coffee House Press, 2000) and Maybe Baby (Little, Brown, 2004). Luanne diBernardo is a former advertising copywriter, and is the writer/producer of the feature-length film Blowfish and short narrative Lemon-Lime. She is currently working on collections of short fiction, flash fiction, a web series, and a feature-length screenplay slated for production in 2007. Clyde Edgerton is the author of the novels Lunch at the Picadilly, The Floatplane Notebooks, Raney, and Walking Across Egypt. Jean Esteve lives on the Oregon coast with a couple of spanielish dogs. They all walk, swim, she writes. Bob Hicok’s fifth book of poems is This Clumsy Lving, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2007. 185 notes on contributors Anthony Goicolea's work has been displayed in many galleries, including the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum of Art. In 2005, he was the recipient of the BMW Photo Paris Award. Katie Rose Guest lives...