About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Judith Adkins has an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Ruminate, The Colorado Review, and The Normal School. She is at work on a collection of essays exploring gay and lesbian family matters.
Amy Butcher (amyebutcher.com) is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and is a recent recipient of the Olive B. O’Connor Creative Writing Fellowship at Colgate University. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, Salon, The Kenyon Review, The Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Hobart, and Brevity, among others.
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction in 2001 and was recently reissued in paperback by the University of Georgia Press. Her essays have appeared in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Harpur Palate, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literary Mama, River Teeth, and many other magazines and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie, where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children. More at jillchristman.com.
Kate Carroll de Gutes holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her work has been published in various journals, including Seattle Review, New Plains Journal, Crosscurrents, and Pank. Kate lives in Portland, Oregon, where occasionally you might see her wearing a tie and chatting up some tall femme. [End Page 167]
Robert Long Foreman is from Wheeling, West Virginia. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Cossack Review, Third Coast, Willow Springs, and AGNI, among other journals. “Dirty Laundry” is included in his book-length work on inheritance, We Are All Dealers in Used Furniture, which is under submission to publishers. He teaches creative writing and literature at Rhode Island College.
Amanda Giracca lives in western Massachusetts, where she just completed what she believes to be her last season as a landscape gardener. Her essays and stories have appeared in Flyway, Terrain.org, The Magazine, and Passages North among others, and she is a regular contributor to Vela Magazine. She received an MFA from University of Pittsburgh and is currently a lecturer in University at Albany’s Writing and Critical Inquiry program.
Michelle Pilar Hamill received her MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2012. She won Honorary Mention at the AWP Intro Journal Awards. Her essays can be found on Fresh Yarn. She is currently working on her memoir, Sparkle Head, and lives in Manhattan with her husband, daughter, and two ex-alley cats.
Suzanne Koven (suzannekovenmd.com) practices primary care internal medicine in Boston. She writes the monthly “In Practice” column for the Boston Globe and blogs at boston.com. She also contributes the interview column, “The Big Idea,” at The Rumpus. Her essays and reviews have appeared in New Yorker.com, The New England Journal of Medicine, Psychology Today, and other publications.
Patrick Madden teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. His first book, Quotidiana, won an Independent Publisher Book of the Year award, and his essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies. He is completing his second book, Sublime Physick, and an anthology with David Lazar, After Montaigne: Contemporary Writers Cover the Essays.
David Naimon is a writer and host of the literary radio show, Between The Covers (KBOO 90.7 FM), in Portland, Oregon. His work can be found in [End Page 168] Tin House, StoryQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, and The Missouri Review, among others.
Alexis Paige’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, Pithead Chapel, Ragazine, 14 Hills, and on Brevity’s blog. Winner of the 2014 New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Prize, she also received a recent Pushcart Prize nomination and a feature on Freshly Pressed by WordPress. Twice named a top-ten finalist of Glamour Magazine’s essay contest, Paige holds an MA in poetry from San Francisco State University and is pursuing an MFA in nonfiction from the Stonecoast creative writing program.
Patricia Park teaches writing at CUNY Queens College. She graduated from Swarthmore College and received...
