Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Matthew Baker is the author of If You Find This (Little Brown, 2014), a novel for children. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, and Best of the Net. He knows how to use a low orbit ion cannon. Visit him online at www.mwektaehtabr.com.
Luke Brekke lives with his wife and two daughters in Wisconsin where he makes a living roasting coffee for a small roastery. This is his first publication.
Kelly Grey Carlisle’s personal essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Sun, Ploughshares, Rumpus, Subtropics, and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. She teaches writing at Trinity University and edits the new literary magazine 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction.
Kevin Craft is the editor of Poetry Northwest. His books include Solar Prominence (Cloudbank Books, 2005) and five volumes of the anthology Mare Nostrum, an annual collection of Italian translation and Mediterranean-inspired writing. A Bread Loaf Scholar in 1996, he has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, 4Culture, and Artist Trust. He lives in Seattle and directs both the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College and the Creative Writing in Rome Program at the University of Washington.
Laurence de Looze publishes fiction, essays, and books on a variety of topics, including medieval literature. A native US citizen, he has lived for years in Canada where he teaches a variety of university courses. His fiction has appeared in the Antioch Review and Ontario Review, and his book The Letter and the Cosmos: How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World, is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press. He is sorely tempted to move permanently to Portugal.
Susan Engberg has published four collections of stories and novellas, Pastorale (University of Illinois, 1982), A Stay by the River (Viking Penguin, 1985), Sarah’s Laughter (Knopf, 1991), and Above the Houses (Delphinium Books, 2008). Her stories have been included in several issues of Epoch and Sewanee Review and have been selected for three O. Henry Prize volumes, a Pushcart Prize collection, and the Ploughshares Reader.
Castle Freeman Jr., the author of four novels and many stories and essays, is a longtime contributor of short fiction to NER, most recently with “Who’s Stopping You” (NER 34.3-4). He lives in southeastern Vermont.
William Gilson is an American living in England. He is co-author of Carved in Stone: The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones (photographs by Thomas E. Gilson; Wesleyan University Press, 2012) and author of the novella At the Dark End of the Street. Versions of both appeared first in New England Review. His story “The Visit” was published in the Warwick Review.
Andrew Grace’s manuscript-in-progress is The Last Will and Testament of Said Gun. Other sections of the manuscript are forthcoming or appear in recent issues of the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Guernica, Poet Lore, and 32 Poems. He teaches at Kenyon College. [End Page 210]
Philip F. Gura is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Early American Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) and American Transcendentalism: A History (Hill and Wang, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ela Harrison is a scholar of classical languages and literatures, and of linguistics and philology, as well as being a translator and editor, writer and researcher. Her writing has been published in Cirque Journal and F Magazine, and her poem “Legion” was runner-up in the Fairbanks Arts Association’s 2012 poetry competition.
Allegra Hyde’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Southwest Review, Passages North, Chattahoochee Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. She is the prose editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review and curates similes at www.allegrahyde.com.
Bill Johnston’s translation of Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel Stone Upon Stone (Archipelago Books, 2011) won the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book...
