Contributors
- Contributors
beth bachmann’s first book, Temper, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her new book, Do Not Rise, winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, comes out next month from the Pitt Poetry Series.
fleda brown most recently published her eighth collection of poems, No Need of Sympathy, and a collection of essays, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, and the Philip Levine Prize. A professor emerita at the University of Delaware, she now lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop.
ed clark was born in 1926 in the Storyville section of New Orleans, Louisiana, and moved to the South Side of Chicago in 1935. After joining the air force and spending two years stationed in Guam, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then continued his studies abroad at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. In 1957, he moved to New York City. Soon after, he created and exhibited America’s first documented “shaped canvas.” Today, at the age of eighty-seven, he continues to paint in his Chelsea studio while spending summers in Paris. His works can be found in museums around the globe, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
bruce cohen’s poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, and Poetry. He has published three volumes of poetry, and a new collection, No Soap, Radio, is forthcoming in 2015. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Office of Culture and Tourism, he is also on the creative writing faculty at the University of Connecticut.
deborah flanagan’s chapbook, Or, Gone, was the winner of Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Series Chapbook Award, and she was recently nominated for a Pushcart [End Page v] prize. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and FIELD. She lives in New York City.
edward gauvin is a two-time winner of the John Dryden Translation Prize and has received fellowships and residencies from the PEN American Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and Ledig House. His translations include Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper, winner of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award. The translator of more than 150 graphic novels, he is the contributing editor for Francophone comics at Words without Borders.
frank giampietro is the author of Begin Anywhere and coauthor of Spandrel with Denise Bookwalter and Book O’ Tondos with Megan Marlatt. He created the Web poetry journal La Fovea.
gary gildner’s books in print include a volume of stories, Somewhere Geese Are Flying; two memoirs, The Warsaw Sparks and My Grandfather’s Book; and three collections of poems. His stories have most recently appeared in The Antioch Review, The Georgia Review, and New Letters.
mary jo firth gillett’s collection, Soluble Fish, won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. She has also published four prize-winning chapbooks, most recently Dance Like a Flame, which won the 2013 Hill-Stead Sunken Garden Museum Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
jeff hardin is the author of two collections of poetry, Fall Sanctuary and Notes for a Praise Book. Recipient of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, his third collection, Restoring the Narrative, will be published in 2015. A letterpress chapbook, Until That Yellow Bird Returns, will be printed by Red Hydra Press this year. Recent poems appear in North American Review, Measure, and New Orleans Review.
julie hensley grew up on a sheep farm in the Shenandoah Valley, but now she makes her home in Kentucky with her husband, the writer R. Dean Johnson, and their two children. She is a...
