Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Frank Baez was born in 1978 in Santo Domingo. His latest poetry collection, Postales, won the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009 as a manuscript, and was published in Costa Rica and Argentina before appearing in his native Dominican Republic. As editor of the online poetry review Ping Pong, Baez has published scores of poets from Latin America, North America, and Europe. Conversant with the literatures of all three continents, he is an accomplished translator of English and American verse.
Matthew Baker's fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, and Conjunctions, among other journals. He has an M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review and where he held the program's Postgraduate Fiction Fellowship. He now lives in Ireland as a Fulbright Fellow.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), a preeminent nineteenth-century French poet, translator, and critic, published one collection of poems during his lifetime, the highly controversial and immensely influential Les Fleurs du mal (1857); a posthumous compilation, Le Spleen de Paris (1869), explores the form of prose poetry. Baudelaire also translated several works of Edgar Allan Poe into French, and these translations are widely read to this day.
Rebecca Black was a 2011 Fulbright professor at the Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first book, Cottonlandia (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), won a Juniper Prize. Poems from Cottonlandia were published in Blackbird, Poetry, Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals; poems from Presidio, her new manuscript, are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review and Shenandoah. A former Stegner and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she divides her time between San Francisco and North Carolina, where she teaches in the M.F.A. program at UNC Greensboro.
Marianne Boruch's most recent poetry collections are The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008); her eighth—Cadaver, Speak—is forthcoming. She is also the author of two books of essays on poetry, In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005) and Poetry's Old Air (Michigan, 1993), and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana, 2011). A Fulbright/Visiting Professor earlier this year in Edinburgh, Scotland, she currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at Purdue University and in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.
Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and visual artist, and a well-known human rights activist. His paintings and drawings have been [End Page 195] exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Paris in the late 1960s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Breytenbach's works include A Season in Paradise (1980), Mouroir (1983), Notes from the Middle World (2009), All One Horse (1989), The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution (1996), Dog Heart (1998), and Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books, 2009). His many honors include the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999 and Die Windvanger in 2008.
Joanne Dominique Dwyer lives in New Mexico, where she works with the Alzheimer's Poetry Project. Her first book of poems, Belle Laide, will be published by Sarabande books in May 2013.
Jonathan Fink is an Associate Professor and the Director of Creative Writing at University of West Florida. Among the awards he has received are grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and Emory University. More information is available at jonathanfink.com.
John Gallaher is the author of four books of poems, most recently Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011), co-written with G. C. Waldrep. His next book, a memoir-poem entitled In a Landscape, is forthcoming in 2015 from BOA. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits the Laurel Review.
Karl Harshbarger is an American writer living in Germany. He has published his stories in many magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner. Two of his stories have been selected for the list of "Distinguished Stories" in...
