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Peter Agnone (1948–2011) studied Serbian at the University of Pittsburgh and visited the former Yugoslavia numerous times. He translated David Albahari’s novel Bait (2001) as part of the Northwestern University Press Writings from an Unbound Europe series, and was nominated for the 2003 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages book prize. He is also the translator of short stories by Goran Petrović, Vidosav Stevanović, and Mihajlo Pantić, which appeared in The Man Who Ate Death: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Stories (2006), as well as Petrović’s novel The Sixty-Nine Drawers.

Ash Bowen is the author of The Even Years of Marriage, winner of the 2012 Orphic Book Prize. His work has previously appeared in New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He is co-managing editor of Linebreak and teaches undergraduate literature and creative writing at the University of Alabama.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo came to the US undocumented and is currently a Canto Mundo fellow and MFA candidate at the University of Michigan. He teaches summers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and recent work can be found in Jubilat, the Journal, and Drunken Boat, among others.

A. J. Church (1829–1912) was an English classical scholar and professor of Latin at University College, London. With W. J. Brodribb he translated Tacitus and edited Pliny’s letters. He wrote Latin and English verse and published a volume entitled Memories of Men and Books (1908), but he is best known for his English retellings of classical tales and legends for young people.

Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Sunday Rising (Michigan State, 2013). Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and has appeared in the Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Slate, and Stand. New work is forthcoming in Kenyon Review and Southern Humanities Review.

Peter Cooley has recently published his ninth book of poetry, Night Bus to the Afterlife (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014). He is the Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University, and the winner of the 2014 Marble Faun Poetry Prize from the Faulkner Society in New Orleans.

Stephen Dixon has published thirty books of fiction: fifteen novels and fifteen story collections, most recently the novel His Wife Leaves Him (2013) and the three-volume story collection What Is All This? (2011), both published by Fantagraphics Books. “That First Time” and “Cochran,” which appeared in NER 34.2, are part of the interlinked collection Late Stories, which the author completed on June 16, 2014.

Joanne Dominique Dwyer lives in Northern New Mexico where she works with teens through a grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation, as well as with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Her first collection of poems is Belle Laide (Sarabande Books, 2013). [End Page 195]

Debora Greger is Poet-in-Residence at the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida, and is the author of By Herself (Penguin, 2012), her most recent book of poems.

Sands Hall is the author of the novel Catching Heaven (Ballantine, 2000) and a book of essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer’s Craft (Moving Finger Press, 2005). Her essays and stories have appeared in 2paragraphs.com, Green Mountains Review, and the Iowa Review; the latter, “Hide and Go Seek,” was listed among 100 Other Notable Stories in Best American Short Stories, 2009. She is also a singer/songwriter and playwright; her produced plays include an adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women and the comic drama Fair Use.

Bob Hicok’s latest book, Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon, 2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

James Hoch is the author of A Parade of Hands (Silverfish Review Press, 2003) and Miscreants (W. W. Norton, 2007). He has received fellowships from the NEA, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences, St. Albans School for Boys, and the Frost Place. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Guest Faculty at Sarah Lawrence.

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