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Untitled. Photograph collage; 14 × 4 in. © Virginia Echeverria Whipple
Virginia Echeverria Whipple (b. 1975, Chile) uses found images from books and magazines to create what she refers to as “analogue collages.” Working intuitively, she applies simple yet intricate techniques of cutting and gluing with colored paper and sequences to create images that balance the abstract with the literal. Her website in virginiaecheverria.com.
prose
Baird Harper’s fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, Tin House, the Chicago Tribune, Mid-American Review, Another Chicago Magazine, CutBank, and Printers Row Journal. His stories have been anthologized in Best New American Voices 2009 and 2010 and 40 Years of CutBank, and have won the 2014 Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the 2010 Nelson Algren Award, and the 2009 James Jones Fiction Contest. He teaches writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago.
Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections Vulgar Remedies (lsu Press) and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (U of Georgia P), which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Charles Lowe’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. It has been published or is forthcoming in Essays & Fictions, Fiction International, Guernica, Pacific Review, and other publications. His fiction has also been included in the recently published anthology Friend. Follow. Text. #storiesFromLiving Online. He lives with his wife and daughter in Zhuhai, China, where he lectures at United International College. The story that appears in this issue of Prairie Schooner is part of a collection in progress titled “Eating Out in Goubuli.”
Dave Madden is the author of The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in diagram, the Normal School, 1969, Indiana Review, and elsewhere, and he’s the recipient of a Bernard DeVoto Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches in the mfa program at the University of San Francisco. [End Page 170]
Alicia Ostriker is a poet-critic, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Award, and the National Jewish Book Council Award, among others. She is the author of Writing Like a Woman and of Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, and other books of criticism. Her most recent volume of poetry is The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog. Ostriker teaches in the Drew University Low-Residency MFA program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.
Laina Mullin Pruett’s fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review. She was a 2011 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow, a 2014 Yaddo Fellow, and is an editor for the Worchester Review. She earned her mfa in fiction from Boston University. Pruett lives in rural Massachusetts with her husband and two spoiled cats.
Ron Riekki’s books include U.P. and The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (a Michigan Notable Book). He has books forthcoming with Michigan State University Press and is at work on a novel.
Daniel Riddle Rodriguez’s real name is Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. He is a fulltime student and father from San Lorenzo, California, where he lives with his son. Previous publications include Fourteen Hills, Danse Macabre, and Monkeybicycle.
Mary Helen Specht’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times. A former Fulbright scholar to Nigeria, she currently teaches creative writing at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Her first novel, Migratory Animals, will be published by Harper Perennial in January 2015.
poetry
Karen Alkalay-Gut, professor emerita at Tel Aviv University, has been writing poetry for only half a century, but she has been a woman for sixty-nine years. Born in London, raised in the United States, Alkalay-Gut has been living in Israel since 1972.
Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Among her books are Bright Body (White Pine), Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow), Madly in Love, which was reissued...
