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  • Contributors

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Use of the World and Millennial Teeth, which won the 2013 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII. He is an associate professor at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches and edits Waccamaw.

Ramona Ausubel’s novel No One is Here Except All of Us and story collection A Guide to Being Born were both New York Times Editors’ Choice selections. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, and the Best American Fantasy, and she won the 2013 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction.

Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels Bear v. Shark, U.S.!, and Abbott Awaits. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and two daughters and since 2011 has taught writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Bruce Bond has written nine books of poetry, most recently Choir of the Wells and The Visible. He has two books forthcoming: The Other Sky (poems in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfled) and For the Lost Cathedral. He is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and poetry editor for American Literary Review.

Brian Brodeur’s Natural Causes won the 2011 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His recent work appears in Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, and Pleiades. He lives with his wife in Cincinnati, where he is an Elliston Fellow in Poetry in the English and Comparative Literature doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati.

Jerome Charyn has received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His latest book, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, will be published by Liveright in 2014. [End Page v]

Kelly Cherry published her twenty-first book and ninth full-length collection of poems, The Life and Death of Poetry, in March 2013. The most recent of her nine chapbooks is Vectors.

Peter Cooley’s ninth book, Night Bus to the Afterlife, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. The recipient of an ATLAS grant from the state of Louisiana to work on the book “Aftermaths: Louisiana After Hurricane Katrina,” he also received the Marble Faun Prize in poetry from the Faulkner Society for a selection from that manuscript.

Marian Crotty is a PhD candidate in fiction at Florida State University and was a 2012–2013 Fulbright Scholar to the United Arab Emirates. Her work has appeared in Third Coast and Michigan Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in The Atlantic.

William Virgil Davis’s most recent book is Landscape and Journey, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for poetry. He has published three other books of poetry as well as six books of literary criticism. He is a professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.

Jane Delury has had stories appear in The Yale Review, Narrative, and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She is on the faculty of the University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program.

Lynn Domina is the author of two collections of poetry, Corporal Works and Framed in Silence, and the editor of a collection of essays, Poets on the Psalms. Her poetry appears in New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Paterson Literary Review. She lives in the western Catskill region of New York.

Cathryn Essinger has published three books of poetry: A Desk in the Elephant House, My Dog Does Not Read Plato, and What I Know About Innocence. She teaches at Wright State University and the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. She is a member of the Greenville Poets, from Greenville, Ohio.

Alan Feldman has been traveling this year in the Baltic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean since his wife, the artist Nan Hass Feldman, was hired to teach on a cruise ship. He has poems forthcoming in Arroyo, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review and continues to offer his free, drop-in poetry workshops at the Framingham and Wellfleet libraries. [End...

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