Contributor Notes
- Contributor Notes
Kerry Banazek is a teacher and materialist rhetorician living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently at work on a research project that ties ways of talking about empathy, generosity, and object-oriented philosophy to place-based composing processes. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, Diagram, Seneca Review, and elsewhere.
John R. Beardsley divides his time between Newburgh, Indiana, and Tallahassee, Florida, where he is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, the Journal, CutBank, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
Julie Carr is the author of six books of poetry and one book of criticism. Her most recent books are 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta), Rag (Omnidawn), and Think Tank (forthcoming in early 2015 from Solid Objects). She lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Urška Charney is a freelance translator. Her translations of poetry have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, and her translated books include Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom: The Collected Poems of Vlado Kreslin; The Golden Shower, by Luka Novak; and a variety of works by Aleš Šteger.
Alex Cigale’s poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Tampa Review, and the Literary Review, and online in Asymptote, Drunken Boat, and McSweeney’s. His translations from the Russian can be found in Ancora Imparo, Big Bridge, Cimarron Review, Literary Imagination, Modern Poetry in Translation, pen America, Two Lines, and Washington Square Review. Until recently, he was assistant professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Molly Damm earned her mfa from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Poetry. She lives and teaches in Northern California. [End Page 171]
Darren C. Demaree is the author of As We Refer to Our Bodies (8th House, 2013), Temporary Champions (Main Street Rag, 2014), and Not for Art for Prayer (8th House, 2015). He is the recipient of three Pushcart Prize nominations and a Best of the Net nomination. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.
Elke Erb grew up in the former East Germany and lives in Berlin. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of poems, most recently Das Hündle kam weiter auf drein [The Dog Managed on Three], published on the occasion of her receiving the Ernst Jandl Prize in 2013. A selection of her early poems in English translation, Mountains in Berlin, is available from Burning Deck.
Matthew Ferrence lives and writes at the confluence of Appalachia and the Rust Belt. His essays have appeared widely in journals that include Blue Mesa Review, Creative Nonfiction, and the Gettysburg Review. He is the author of a book of cultural criticism, All-American Redneck, and teaches creative writing at Allegheny College.
Christian Gullette received his mfa from the Warren Wilson mfa Program for Writers and is currently a phd student at the University of California, Berkeley, in Scandinavian Literatures and Languages. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Smartish Pace and Ocho, and he was one of the winners of Knockout Literary Magazine’s Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Carl Phillips. He is also a poetry editor for the Cortland Review.
Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: An Amneoir (Wesleyan, 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother’s cancer; it was a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection. He is also the author of a critical study, Poetry and the Public.
Evan Harrison is the author of Sham City (Omnidawn, 2011). He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Brian Henry is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Brother No One. His translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things appeared from boa Editions in 2010 and won the Best Translated Book Award. He has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the nea, the Howard Foundation, and the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. [End Page 172]
John Kinsella’s most recent volume of poetry is Jam Tree Gully (W. W. Norton, 2012). He is a professorial...
