Contributors
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Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox (2010), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling (2008), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Honors for her work include the Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer in Residence position, the University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence position, two DCCAH Artist Fellowships, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets and Writers. Her most recent book is Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (2013), a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. She lives in Washington, DC.
Brent Goodman is the author of Far from Sudden (2013), The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009), and two chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester, Pank, Diode, No Tell Motel, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
H. L. Hix’s recent books include a volume of selected poems, First Fire, Then Birds (2010), and an essay collection, Lines of Inquiry (2011). He lives in the mountain west with his partner, the poet Kate Northrop. His web address is www.hlhix.com.
Amorak Huey, a longtime newspaper editor and reporter, now teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poems appear in Best American Poetry 2012, Gargoyle, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, and other journals. Follow him on Twitter:@amorak.
Whittney Jones is an MFA candidate in poetry at Murray State University. She lives in Southern Illinois and works at her town’s district library as Family Literacy Coordinator and Project Next Generation Mentor. She has work published or forthcoming in Parable Press Magazine and Zone 3.
Nick Lantz is the author of We Don’t Know We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House as well as the forthcoming How to Dance as the Roof Caves In. He teaches in the MFA program at Sam Houston State University. [End Page 162]
Kathryn Levy is the author of the poetry collections Reports (2013) and Losing the Moon (2006). Her work has appeared in various publications, including Slate, Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, Province town Arts, and Southampton Review, among others. She was founding director of two poets-in-the-schools organizations, The Poetry Exchange and the New York City Ballet Poetry Project. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (2003), Mixology (2009), which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke (2013). He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Work by Ben Merriman has appeared in dozens of journals. Read more at benmerriman.tumblr.com.
Corey Miller is from Herrin, Illinois, and is currently an MFA candidate at the Michener Center at the University of Texas. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Narrative, Forklift, Ohio, Sonora Review.
William O’Daly is a poet, translator, fiction writer, and editor. His many publications, in addition to those available in magazines, journals, and anthologies, include eight books of translation of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda and a chapbook of poems. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry. With coauthor Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, selected as a finalist in Narrative magazine’s 2009 Fall Story Contest.
Alan Michael Parker is the author of seven books of poems, including Long Division (2012), and three novels, including The Committee on Town Happiness (forthcoming), as well as the editor or coeditor of three other volumes. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes, inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011, and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award in Poetry. He is the Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College and a faculty member in the University of Tampa low-residency MFA program.
Catherine Pierce is the author of The Girls of Peculiar (2012), winner of the 2013 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, and Famous Last Words (2008), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Slate, Boston Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, and elsewhere. She codirects the...
