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  • Contributor Notes

Lindsey Alexander is a Kentuckian transplanted in the Hoosier state. She edits Lumberyard magazine. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Green Mountains Review, and Forklift, Ohio.

Ruth Baumann is an mfa student at the University of Memphis and assistant managing editor of the Pinch. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in decomP, Permafrost, Superstition Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and others listed at http://ruthbaumann.wordpress.com.

Christine Kaiser Bonasso earned her mfa in creative writing from Ohio State University’s English Department, where, to her delight, she was invited to teach after graduation. Her writing has appeared in National Journal online, Hot Metal Bridge, and various print dailies. Currently, she’s at work on a memoir.

Nancy Naomi Carlson is a recent recipient of an nea Literature Translation fellowship to translate Abdourahman Waberi’s collection of French poetry, The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink, from the Big Dipper, forthcoming from Seagull Books. She has also won grants from the Maryland Arts Council, as well as the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

Terrence Chiusano is the author of the chapbook On Generation and Corruption: Parts I and II (Handwritten Press, 2003) and was a finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Yellow Field, Kenning, Ixnay, Queen Street Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Christopher Citro’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, Third Coast, Salamander, Cream City Review, Southeast Review, and Verse Daily. His nonfiction has appeared in Airplane Reading and nano Fiction online, his book reviews in Indiana Review and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He received his mfa in poetry from Indiana University in 2013.

Jeanette Marie Clough has edited for Solo and reviewed for Poetry International and Caesura. Her forthcoming book, Flourish, was a finalist in the Seismicity (Otis College of Art and Design) and Blue Lynx (Eastern Washington University) annual book competitions.

Mary Elder received an mfa in poetry at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas, where she teaches composition. [End Page 166]

Molly Lou Freeman is currently writing a novel. Recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and poetry awards from the French National Literary Endowment, she teaches and translates poetry in Paris. She has recently lectured on poetry at the nyu and Columbia University Departments of Creative Writing. She rides horses and lives in France and Mexico.

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization serving Asian American poets.

Emily Fox Gordon is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes and the author of two memoirs and two novels. Her most recent publication is Book of Days (2010), a volume of personal essays. She is currently working on a second essay collection, tentatively titled “The View from Now.”

Miriam Bird Greenberg has held fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Poetry Foundation, and the nea. “Killing” appears in the chapbook All night in the new country, published by Sixteen Rivers Press. She writes and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Janis Hubschman’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Upstreet, Front Porch Journal, and elsewhere. She received the 2013 Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Fiction and won first place in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open contest. She teaches fiction writing at Montclair State University.

Colette Inez published ten books of poetry and won Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Pushcart prizes, as well as two nea fellowships. She is widely anthologized and has taught at Columbia University for many years. Her memoir, The Secret of M. Dulong, appeared in 2005. A new collection, The Luba Poems, will be published by Red Hen Press late next year.

Justin Irizarry is originally from Texas, but currently resides in Denver. He has an ma in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas, and an mfa from unlv. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Third Coast, and Front Porch. [End Page 167]

John James teaches at Bellarmine University...

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