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  • Contributors’ Notes

Beverly Burch is a writer of fiction and poetry whose work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, Antioch Review, North American Review, and other journals. Her first poetry collection, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004), won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. She has also published two nonfiction books: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press, 1994) and Other Women (Columbia University Press, 1997). She has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, California.

Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008), was published as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2005. She lives in Southern California with her family and works as a business writer and consultant.

Brock Clarke is the author of five works of fiction, most recently the novels Exley (Algonquin, 2011) and An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (Algonquin, 2008). His fiction and nonfiction have been included in a number of magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies, and have earned him an NEA Literature fellowship, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Prairie Schooner Book Series Prize, among other awards. He teaches at Bowdoin College and lives in Portland, Maine.

Caleb Curtiss teaches high school English in Champaign, Illinois. His poetry has appeared, or will appear soon, in such journals as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Redivider, PANK, and the Literary Review.

Benjamin Ehrlich, who graduated from Middlebury College with highest honors in the Program in Literary Studies, is currently a contributing editor to the online magazine The Beautiful Brain and a member of NeuWrite, a collaborative working group for scientists and writers supported by Columbia University. He would like to thank María Ángeles Ramón y Cajal Junquera and the heirs of Santiago Ramón y Cajal for their assistance with the translation project represented in this issue.

Castle Freeman Jr.’s, new collection of stories, Round Mountain, was published in January by the Concord Free Press, in a special edition distributed without cost to aid recovery from Tropical Storm Irene, which devastated parts of central and southern Vermont last August. For more information, please go to www.concordfreepress.com/roundmountain. One of the stories in this collection was originally published in New England Review (Vol. 26, No. 4).

Jeff Friedman is the author of five collections of poetry; the most recent, Working in Flour, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2011. His poems, [End Page 203] mini-stories, and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, 5 amAgni Online, New England Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, Quick Fiction, and the New Republic. A contributing editor to Natural Bridge, he lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, with the artist Colleen Randall and their dog, Bekka.

Joseph Fruscione’s first book, Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry, was published by Ohio State University Press in January 2012. An adjunct professor of English at Georgetown University and adjunct assistant professor of First-Year Writing at George Washington University, he has published articles and reviews about a number of American authors. His account of Ralph Ellison’s complex relationship with Hemingway will be included in a forthcoming collection entitled Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Ohio State University Press, 2012).

William Gilson is an American living permanently in northwest England. He has published essays, poetry, and fiction. Carved in Stone, the Artistry of Early New England Gravestones (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), a collaboration with the photographer Thomas Gilson, will be published this fall, and includes the essay “Stone Faces,” which first appeared in New England Review (Vol. 30, No. 4).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was the author of numerous highly influential fictional narratives, poems, dramatic works, autobiographical writings, and essays in scientific analysis. Among his most widely read works are his epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and his two-part dramatic poem, Faust (1808–1831).

Debora Greger’s latest book of poems, By Herself, will be published by Penguin in the fall of 2012.

Karen Holmberg’s second book of poems, Axis Mundi, won the John Ciardi Prize...

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