Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Thomas M. Atkinson is an author and playwright, and the 2013 Ohio Arts Council/Fine Arts Work Center Writer-in-Residence in Provincetown, Mass. His story, “Grimace in the Burnt Black Hills,” received two 2013 Pushcart Prize nomination and won an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award for 2012. “Red, White & Blue” was a finalist for Tampa Review’s Danahy Fiction Prize. His work has appeared in The Sun, The North American Review, The Indiana Review, The Moon, City Beat and Electron Press Magazine. His short play, Dancing Turtle, won this year’s 38th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, and will appear in two different anthologies in 2014. He has won numerous honors and awards for both fiction and drama, including four Ohio Arts Council grants. His first novel, Strobe Life, is available for Kindle, and he has just completed his second novel, TIKI MAN, and Standing Deadwood, a collection of short stories.
John Wall Barger’s poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Atlanta Review, and The Montreal Prize Global Poetry Anthology. His second collection, Hummingbird (Palimpsest Press, 2012) was a finalist for the 2013 Raymond Souster Award. He lives in Hong Kong and teaches creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Douglas Basford’s poetry, translations, and prose can be found in Poetry, Ambit, Narrative, Subtropics, Diagram, American Poetry Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Words without Borders, The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and other venues. He has received scholarships from the Summer Literary Seminars and the Sewanee and Bread Loaf conferences and honors from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Southwest Review, The Evansville Review, Smartish Pace, the New England Poetry Club, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Foundation, among others. He teaches and runs the composition program at the University at Buffalo, co-edits the online journal Unsplendid, and is prose editor for The National Poetry Review.
Angela Belcaster is a writer and poet living in Bellingham, Washington, where she divides her time among six children, performing spoken word, and planting calendulas in solid defiance of the Northwest rain.
James Gordon Bennett, winner of the Danahy Fiction Prize, is the author of two novels, My Father’s Geisha (Delacorte, 1990) and The Moon Stops Here (Doubleday, 1994). His short fiction has appeared widely in journals including The Colorado Quarterly, The Kansas Quarterly, The Southern Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, and The Gettysburg Review. His stories have been cited in Best American Short Stories and have been selected for Best New Stories from the South and the Pushcart Prize. Bennett also has written book reviews for The New York Times Book Review and published feature articles in Vogue and Glamour. He is Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Mary Block is a graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, where she earned her MFA in poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, Weave, Saw Palm, and Why I Am Not A Painter (an anthology from Argos Books), among other publications. She was a 2012 finalist for a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and their dog. www.maryblock.net
Catherine M. Chastain-Elliott is a contemporary artist whose work is evocative of the American Impressionist style. She is a graduate of Rhodes College and earned her Ph.D. from Emory University. She is a member of the College Art Association and the Southeastern College Art Conference. She has held two Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowships, one at the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the other at the Archives of American Art.
Bill Christophersen’s poems have recently appeared in Antioch Review, Borderlands, Hanging Loose, Potomac Review, Rattle, Rhino, and Sierra Nevada Review. He lives in New York City and plays traditional and bluegrass fiddle.
Martin Cloutier has been published in Post Road, Shenandoah, Story Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Upstreet, SmokeLong Quarterly, New English Review, The Bryant Literary Review, The Portland Review, Bombay Gin, and The Southeast Review. He teaches at Brooklyn College.
Sarah Crossland earned her BA in Storytelling...
