Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Aaron Baker’s first collection of poems, Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), won the Bakeless Literary Prize in Poetry and the 2009 Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing program at Loyola University Chicago.
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), born in France, was a prolific English writer of essays, travel books, history, biography, works of Roman Catholic and conservative polemic, light verse, and fiction. His books for children include The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales (1941), and his essays were collected in such volumes as On Nothing (1908) and On Everything (1909). Other books include The Path to Rome (1902), Places (1942), and History of England (1925–27), as well as biographies of Robespierre, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, and others.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. The author of the memoir A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin 2009) and the collection of poetry titled Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), Betts has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist, and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures frequently about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.
Yves Bonnefoy, often acclaimed as France’s greatest living poet, has published eight major collections of verse, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. He succeeded Roland Barthes in the Chair of Comparative Poetics at the Collège de France. His work has been translated into scores of languages, and he himself is also a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi. Most recently, he has added the European Prize for Poetry of 2006 and the Kafka Prize for 2007 to his list of honors. He lives in Paris.
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was a distinguished Italian novelist and author of such books as Cosmicomics (1965), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979). He was also an influential literary critic and editor.
Irma Cerese paints improvised, somewhat abstract landscapes with a geometric foundation. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has produced award-winning work that has been featured extensively in group and solo shows and is in numerous private and corporate collections. Regularly displayed by several New England galleries, including Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, her work can also be seen at www.ceresearts.com.
Kathleen Chaplin received a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from the University [End Page 188] of Texas at Austin and is currently an Associate Professor of English at a state university in Massachusetts. She has published academic articles on Victorian fiction and poetry as well as Irish cinema and folklore. Her poems have appeared in Irish Feminist Review and Southword.
Michael Coffey is co-editorial director at Publishers Weekly and the author of three books of poems. “Sons” is taken from a longer work titled Finishing Ulysses.
Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, the most recent of which are Duplex, forthcoming from Graywolf in 2013, and The Thin Place (Little, Brown, 2006). Her other books are Labrador (FSG, 1988), The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (Knopf, 1993), Hell: A Novel (Ecco, 1998), The Walking Tour (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and Versailles (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she won a Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Steve De Jarnatt grew up in the small logging town of Longview, Washington, and graduated from Evergreen State College. He recently “broke out” of the film and television industry (writer/director of the indie cult feature Miracle Mile, among many credits) and received an M.F.A. from Antioch University Los Angeles. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and will be a Tuition Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2013. His...
