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  • Contributors

Chris Arthur, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Dundee, has contributed work to the Southwest Review and other periodicals.

Wendell Berry, the author of more than fifty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Aiken Taylor Award and the National Humanities Medal in 2012. His most recent collection of essays is this year’s Our Only World; his most recent book of poems is This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems, reviewed in our winter 2015 issue. He lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.

Warner Berthoff, a regular contributor, earned the Heilman prize for excellence in book reviewing for the year 2009.

Neal Bowers has published nine books in various genres. His latest poetry collection, Hazards of the Heart, is not forthcoming from any press. He is working on Poems: Selected and New, also not forthcoming in anyone’s lifetime.

Scott Brennan’s work has been published in various magazines, including the Carolina Quarterly, the Gettysburg Review, the Harvard Review, the Literary Review, Meridian, Smithsonian, and elsewhere.

Brendan Galvin, of Truro, Massachusetts, is the author of seventeen collections of poems. Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965–2005 (lsu press) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2006 he earned the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. The Air’s Accomplices, a collection of new poems, is now available from the lsu press.

Kevin J. Gardner is the editor of a new poetry anthology, “Building Jerusalem: Elegies on the Church of England,” to be published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2016. He is a professor of English at Baylor University.

John Gatta, a regular contributor and an accomplished scholar, is working on a book tentatively titled “Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture.”

Debora Greger is poet-in-residence at the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. Her most recent book of poems is By Herself. She earned this magazine’s highest honor in poetry, the Aiken Taylor Award, in 2012.

Ben Howard is professor emeritus of English at Alfred University and the author of ten books, most recently Firewood and Ashes: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) and The Backward Step: Essays on Zen Practice (Whitlock Publishing).

Marc Hudson has taught creative writing and medieval literature at Wabash College for almost thirty years. He is at work on a series of essays on certain American poets and their ethic of dwelling.

Nancy Revelle Johnson, a historian with a special interest in women’s history, has reviewed memoirs for this quarterly for many years.

George Keithley’s most recent books are a novel Ring of Fire and Night’s Body, published by Turning Point, which earned the 2013 Nautilus Book Award for Poetry.

John Kinsella is an Australian poet whose latest collection, Jam Tree Gully, was published by Norton, with his next collection, “Firebreaks,” due out next year.

Jacqueline Kolosov’s third poetry collection is Memory of Blue (Salmon). She has new poetry and prose forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, the Southern Review, and Salamander.

Robert Lacy is the author of a collection of short stories, The Natural Father (New Rivers Press). His short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and journals over the past thirty years.

Mairi MacInnes was born and brought up in County Durham, England, and went to school in Yorkshire and to the University of Oxford, later working as a secretary and an advertising copywriter while writing poetry and fiction. She married the American writer and scholar John McCormick. She has published seven collections of poetry, two novels, and a memoir. A new book of her poems is coming out this fall. [End Page lvi]

Christopher McDonough is chair of classical languages and director of humanities at the University of the South.

David Middleton’s latest collection of verse is The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (lsu Press). He has served since 2008 as poetry editor for Modern Age.

Kent Nelson of Ouray, Colorado, has identified 766 species of North American birds. His novels include Language in the Blood and Land that Moves, Land That Stands Still, and his stories have...

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