Contributors
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Cover
Autumn’s Glow. Oil on canvas, 34 x 40 in. © Faridun Zoda.
Faridun Zoda was born in Tajikistan in 1958. Zoda attended the Moscow High School for the Arts and the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts where he earned his mfa. In 1993 he won first place for a monument dedicated to the civil war in Tajikistan, and he has continued to earn awards including the Award of Excellence in the Manhattan Arts International in 1997 and 1998. Among other publications, he is prominently featured in the book Young Artists of Tajikistan and his work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions internationally. Zoda currently resides in the United States, and his art is included in collections in the United States, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Mexico, Chile, Israel, and China. His website is www.zodaart.com.
Prose
Zdravka Evtimova’s short stories have been published in twenty-eight countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Russia, China, the Republic of South Africa, and Argentina. One of her many short-story collections, Somebody Else (MAG P), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her short story “C’est ton tour” was one of ten award-winning stories in the world short-story competition Utopia 2005: Dis auteurs du monde entier in Nantes, France. Her short story “Vassil” was one of ten award-winning stories in the 2005 Radio BBC World Short Story Competition. In Bulgaria she has twice won the Zlaten Lanez National Short Story Award as well as the Starshel Short Story Award and the Anna Kamenova National Fiction Writing Award. She is also the author of a novel, God of Traitors (Books for a Buck Publishing).
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books Pot Farm and Barolo (both U of Nebraska P); the forthcoming book Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and the Man Who First Photographed It (W. W. Norton: Liveright); the poetry books The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop; and the chapbooks Four Hours to Mpumalanga and Aardvark. Recent work has appeared in the New Republic, Field, Epoch, agni, and [End Page 175] elsewhere. He was born and raised in Illinois and currently teaches creative writing at Northern Michigan University, where he is the nonfiction editor of Passages North. This winter, he prepared his first batch of fried trout ice cream.
Lisa Gornick is the author of two novels, A Private Sorcery (Algonquin) and Tinderbox (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her stories have appeared in many literary journals, including agni, Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, and Slice, and have received awards including distinguished story by The Best American Short Stories, finalist Glimmer Train Fiction Open, and winner of the Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest. “Priest Pond” is part of a forthcoming collection of linked stories, Louisa Meets Bear (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Cary Holladay, a native of Virginia, is the author of seven volumes of fiction, most recently Horse People: Stories (LSU P) and The Deer in the Mirror (OSU P). She and her husband, John Bensko, teach at the University of Memphis.
Barry Lopez’s books include Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, and Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist. He has also published several collections of short stories and two collections of essays. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Harper’s, Paris Review, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and Granta, and his writing has been widely anthologized and translated. He has traveled to nearly eighty countries.
Iris Moulton lives in Salt Lake City. Her work can be found in Parcel, Fugue, Gigantic, and more recently in her book Tofu of Kansas (Sensitive House).
Ellen O’Connell is a California native whose work has been included in several literary journals and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. She is also a contributing writer to the collection The Movement (Harper Perennial) and just completed her first novel.
Poetry
Ellen Arl has been published in Opus, Greensboro Review, and Poem. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, and Sumter, South Carolina.
Mahnaz Badihian is a poet, painter, and translator...
