Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Mark K. Anderson is a journalist and author of Shakespeare by Another Name (Gotham Books, 2005) and The Day the World Discovered the Sun (Da Capo, 2012). He’s written for many publications, including Wired, Harper’s, Science, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, and Technology Review, and has been a regular contributor to WNYC’s Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.
Anders Carlson-Wee is a 2015 NEA Fellow and the winner of Ninth Letter’s 2014 Poetry Award and of New Delta Review’s 2014 Editors’ Choice Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Forklift Ohio, Best New Poets 2012 and 2014, and elsewhere. A recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Residency Fellowship, he is currently an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University.
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity (VQR Poetry Series, 2008). She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman and is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at George Washington University. She lives in Washington, DC.
Lorraine Hanlon Comanor was the 1963 US Figure Skating Champion and member of the US Figure Skating Team. She graduated from Harvard University and Stanford Medical School, completed her residency at both universities, and is a board-certified anesthesiologist. Following twenty-five years in the operating room, she became a medical writer and a research consultant to numerous pharmaceutical companies. More recently, she received her MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in the high Sierras, where she enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, and kayaking.
Steven Cramer is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Clangings (Sarabande, 2012). Recipient of a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including The Arranged Marriage (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Red Army Red (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Stateside (Northwestern University Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House and Associate Professor of creative writing at Washington College, where she edits the national literary journal Cherry Tree.
Ana Fletcher is an editor and translator based in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a BA in English/Writing and Performance from the University of York and an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London. Her translations from Portuguese and Spanish have been published in Granta, Music and Literature, and Wasafiri.
Daisy Fried is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (Pitt Poetry Series, 2013), chosen by Library Journal as one of the five best poetry books of 2013. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. [End Page 193]
Mario J. Gonzales currently lives and works in Santa Fe. He was raised in Parlier, California, a farm-worker community outside of Fresno. His short fiction has appeared in Drunken Boat, Cossack Review, Rio Grande Review, and other literary publications. He has finished a collection of short stories entitled The Importance of Being Elsewhere, which he hopes to be published soon.
Rachel Hadas has two books forthcoming: Talking to the Dead (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015), selected prose, and a volume of poetry, Questions in the Vestibule (Northwestern University Press, 2016). She is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark and is the author of many books of poetry, prose, and translations. The quotation from Proust that appears in her essay in this issue is taken from Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2: The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (Random House, 1981).
Rob Hardy lives in Northfield, Minnesota, where he writes, teaches Latin and Greek, serves on the school board, advocates for local skateboarders, has poetry stamped on sidewalks, and plays the largest bells in the community handbell choir. His essay in Critical Flame on being a stay-at-home father and reading Virago Modern Classics was the online journal...
