Contributors
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An Awesome Wave. 90cm × 160cm, digital print on archival paper overlaid with metallic ink, varnish, and crystals. © Julia Ibbini
Julia Ibbini’s artistic process involves wandering the diverse urban and rural areas around the United Arab Emirates, taking photos, and making observations. These findings are then brought to life through brightly colored digital collages, which she painstakingly embellishes with crystals, varnishes, pins, and hand-drawn details. Her website is www.ibbini.com.
prose
Sarah Cornwell’s stories have appeared in the 2013 Pushcart Prize anthology, Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Gulf Coast, and other magazines. Her debut novel, What I Had Before I Had You, was published by HarperCollins in 2014. She lives in Los Angeles.
Amina Gautier is the author of two short-story collections: At-Risk, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award (U of Georgia P, 2011), and Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize (U of Nebraska P, 2014). More than eighty of her short stories have been published, appearing in Antioch Review, Best African American Fiction, Callaloo, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Review, among other places. Her stories have been honored with the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, Danahy Prize, Jack Dyer Prize, Lamar York Prize, Schlafly Microfiction Award, and William Richey Award as well as fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, Bread Load Writers’ Conference, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MacDowell Colony, Prairie Center of the Arts, the Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Writers in the Heartland along with artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She teaches creative writing in the mfa program at the University of Miami.
RL Goldberg is currently pursuing an mfa in fiction at the University of Florida and is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Nat. Brut, Bodega, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. [End Page 164]
Ann Glaviano is a born-and-raised New Orleanian and a recent graduate of the mfa program at The Ohio State University. She writes grants for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and serves on the fundraising committee for Big Class, a youth writing center in chapter development to become 826 New Orleans. This is her first publication.
Andrea Lewis writes short stories, essays, and prose poems from her home on Vashon Island, Washington. “Tchoupitoulas” is a chapter from her novel-in-stories, “What My Last Man Did.” Her work has appeared in Cutthroat, Catamaran Literary Reader, Harpur Palate, and many other journals. She is a founding member of Richard Hugo House, a place for writers in Seattle.
Samuel Ligon has published a book of stories, Drift and Swerve, and a novel, Safe in Heaven Dead. His stories have appeared in New England Review, The Quarterly, Post Road, Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University and is the editor of Willow Springs.
Aurvi Sharma is the recipient of the 2014 Wasafiri Writing Prize for Life Writing. In 2012 she was awarded a Sarai Non-Fiction Prize, which made this essay possible. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Everyday Genius, and Remedy.
Rachel Sheridan lives and writes in northern California. This is her first publication.
poetry
James E. Allman Jr.’s credentials—degrees in biology and business—qualify him for an altogether different trade. However, he easily tires of the dissected and austerely economized. Nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, his work appears or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Phoebe, and Third Coast, among others. He’s written reviews for Rattle as well as other journals, blogs, and sundries and is the cofounder of an artist community called Continuum.
Ronda Broatch is the author of Shedding Our Skins (Finishing Line P, 2008) and Some Other Eden (2005). Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Ronda is a May Swenson Poetry Award finalist. Moon Path Press is publishing her next collection in early 2015. A Seattle native, Ronda currently co-edits the literary journal Crab Creek Review.
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