Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
elvis bego was born in Bosnia, became a refugee at age twelve, and currently lives in Copenhagen, where he is completing a novel. His fiction and essays have appeared in Agni, The Common, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, Witness, and elsewhere.
mauro covacich was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1965. To date, he has published six novels, as well as several books of short stories and essays. His latest short story collection, La Sposa (The Wife), was named one of the top 10 books of 2014 by Corriere della Sera. Covacich is well known for his pentalogy composed of four novels and a related video installation, entitled L’umiliazione delle stelle (The Humiliation of the Stars).
jennifer croft is a writer, translator, and critic based in Buenos Aires. She has published in the New York Times, BOMB, New Republic, n+1, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of the Buenos Aires Review.
A former Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner, joanne dominique dwyer lives in northern New Mexico. A Rona Jaffe award recipient and graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA program for writers, Dwyer workswith the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, bringing writing and poetry into assisted living facilities. She also works with teens through the Witter Bynner Foundation and is the author of the collection of poems Belle Laide.
robin fasano has written for Spirituality & Health, Parenting, Ode, Berkshire Living, and others. She worked in philanthropy and spearheaded cause-driven campaigns for over fifteen years. She’s lived in ten states and traveled throughout the Middle East and Africa. Most recently, she lived and worked in Kabul.
sibelan forrester is professor of Russian at Swarthmore College, where she teaches languages, literature, and the theory and practice of literary translation. She has published numerous translations of poetry, prose, and scholarly work from Croatian, Russian, and Serbian. Her translations of Maria Stepanova have appeared in Relocations: Three Contemporary Russian Women Poets (shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Awards) and in the online journal Big Bridge.
rivkie fried is a former journalist and has published several short stories as well as poetry. She was born in Israel and has lived in London for many years. She is currently working on a novel, The Wrong Sea.
ken hanes is a playwright and screenwriter living in Portland, OR. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway and elsewhere. His screenplay for the Indie film Fixing Frank, based on his stage play, received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. “I Am What I Was” is his first short story. He is currently at work on his first novel.
dewitt henry is the author of The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, and two memoirs: Sweet Dreams and Safe Suicide. The founding editor of Ploughshares, he has also edited the anthology Sorrow’s Company: Writers on Loss and Grief. He teaches at Emerson College.
j. kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, NH.
joohwan kim currently studies history and English at Brown University. This is his first published piece.
annie lampman teaches writing at the University of Idaho. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Orion, Crab Creek Review, Cirque, Adanna Literary Journal, Dunes Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Copper Nickel: Women Writing the West. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention.
benjamin landry is the author of Particle and Wave and is a research associate in Creative Writing at Oberlin College. His poems and essays have appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.
julia leverone lives and teaches in north Texas, where she is writing her dissertation in comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Crab Orchard Review, B O D Y, Asymptote, and Poetry International. She is the editor of Sakura Review. [End Page 522]
philip metres is the author and translator of a number of books, most recently Sand Opera. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry and has garnered two NEA fellowships, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab...
