Contributors
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(Front) Untitled: Hands Up. Watercolor, pen, and varnish, 20 x 30 in. 2015. (Back) Pride #3. Marker and pen, 20 x 30 in. 2015. © Adrian Armstrong
Adrian Armstrong is a graduate of the University of Nebraska currently living and working in Nebraska. His work consists of mixed media portraits, often pointillism, focused in surrealistic and often abstract portraiture exploring American culture. His website is www.adrianarmstrongart.com.
prose
Adrienne Celt’s debut novel, The Daughters, will be published by W. W. Nor-ton/Liveright in August 2015. Her short fiction appears (or is forthcoming) in Esquire, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, EPOCH, Puerto del Sol, Carve Magazine, and many other journals. Her comics and essays can be found in the Rumpus, the Toast, the Millions, the Tin House Open Bar, Bat City Review, and elsewhere. She publishes a webcomic at loveamongthelampreys.com.
Emily Geminder’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Witness, the Mississippi Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. She is currently a Durwood fellow at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Gabe Herron lives outside a small town near Portland, Oregon. He’s had a winning story in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. He has worked at Powell’s Books for twelve years.
Lawrence Lenhart holds an mfa from the University of Arizona. His work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Currently living in Sacramento, he is the reviews editor and assistant fiction editor of DIAGRAM.
Kate Southwood’s debut novel, Falling to Earth, was published by Europa Editions in March 2013 and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Program for Writers and Poets.
Wil Weitzel is currently at work on a novel set in alpine Pakistan that showcases mountain ecologies and contemporary human relations to wild spaces. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Southwest Review, New Orleans Review, Chautauqua, Conjunctions, and the Kenyon Review. In 2014, he was nominated [End Page 176] for a Pushcart Prize and awarded a nyc Emerging Writers Fellowship at the Center for Fiction. He also won the 2014 Washington Square Flash Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 2014 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction.
poetry
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of recently published full-length collection The Last Time Will Be the First. His other work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, and four chapbooks. The name of Jeff’s dog is Beckett Long Snout. The name of his micro-press is Dikembe Press.
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian-American poet and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including the Missouri Review, Third Coast, and Columbia Poetry Review. Her poetry collection Atrium (Three Rooms Press) was awarded the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry. Four Cities, her second collection, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press later this year. Her third collection, Hijra, was recently selected as a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press.
Jose Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and has had poems recently in Salamander, RHINO, Borderlands, and Pilgrimage. He runs the poetry blog titled the Friday Influence. He is presently pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. His chapbook, “Reasons (not) to Dance,” is due out in the summer of 2015 from FutureCycle Press.
Bonnie Arning’s first book, The Black Acres, has been selected by the Mountain West Poetry Series and is forthcoming in spring 2016. A New Mexico native, she currently resides in Albuquerque with her young son Arlo.
Miguel Avero was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1984. He is the author of a poetry collection Arca de aserrín. His poems, translated by Jona Colson, have appeared in Palabras errantes and in Prairie Schooner and are forthcoming in América invertida: An Anthology of Younger Uruguayan Poets.
Michelle Boisseau received her second nea poetry fellowship in 2011. Her fourth books of poems, A Sunday in God-Years, was published by the University of Arkansas Press. New poems have appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Yale...
