Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Kim Addonizio’s latest books are My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits (Stephen F. Austin Press, 2014) and a story collection, The Palace of Illusions (Soft Skull Press, 2014). A new book of poems, Mortal Trash, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton, along with a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress (Viking/Penguin).
Mukund Belliappa grew up in various parts of India and has lived in the US since attending graduate school at UT Austin, where he studied engineering, mathematics, and creative writing. Belliappa’s essays have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, and Rain Taxi. A sizeable portion of his reading and writing over the past decade has been in colonial history. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two Malinois.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005) and of Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, 2009), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A recipient of awards and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Paris Review, Civitella di Ranieri, and the Lannan Foundation, among others, she teaches in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and UNC Chapel Hill. She is Senior Poetry Editor at Los Angeles Review of Books. Her third book of poems, Rocket Fantastic, is forthcoming.
Alex Cigale’s poems, as well as his translations from Russian, have appeared in Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, the Literary Review, PEN America, TriQuarterly, and others. His translations of Osip Mandelstam’s “He Who Had Found a Horseshoe” and “Séance,” and of section one of fellow Acmeist Vladimir Narbut’s “Seventeenth,” appeared in NER 34.3–4. He is a 2015 NEA Literary Translation Fellow for his work on the poet of the St. Petersburg philological school Mikhail Eremin.
Francine Conley is the author of the chapbook How Dumb the Stars (Parallel Press, 2001). Recent poems have appeared in American Literary Review, Juked, Paris-Atlantic, Shadowgraph Magazine, Asteri(x) Journal, Naugatuck Review, Hartskill Review, and others. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Michael Deagler lives in Philadelphia. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Minnesota Review, Buffalo Almanack, and elsewhere.
Alex Dimitrov is the author of Begging for It (Four Way Books, 2013). A second collection of poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. He lives in New York.
W. S. Di Piero is the winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and is the author of many volumes of poetry and essays. His most recent books of poems are Tombo (McSweeney’s, 2014), Nitro Nights (Copper Canyon, 2012), and When Can I See You Again: New Art Writings (Pressed Wafer, 2010). [End Page 186]
Stephen Dixon has published fifteen story collections and fifteen novels, to which he will soon add the novel Letters to Kevin (Fantagraphic Books, 2016), the novella Beatrice (Publishing Genius, 2016), and his collection Late Stories (Curbside Splendor, Trnsfr Books, 2016). “Just What Is Not” and two other stories from that collection were first published in NER. Dixon continues to live in Ruxton, Maryland.
John Milton Edwards [pen name for William Wallace Cook] (1867–1933) was the author of The Fiction Factory (1912) and, as William Wallace Cook, worked as a newspaper reporter before he began publishing popular novels and stories. Most of his fiction first appeared serially in weekly and monthly magazines, and included westerns, science fiction, satire, fantasy, and work in other genres. He also notably published a how-to book titled Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots (1928). His novels released in book form include A Round Trip to the Year 2000, or a Flight Through Time (1903) and Adrift in the Unknown, or Adventures in a Queer Realm (1905), a satire on US capitalism.
John Gallaher is the author of five books of poetry, including Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (with G. C. Waldrep, BOA, 2011) and In a Landscape (BOA, 2014), as well as two chapbooks and two edited collections. He co-edits the Akron Series in Poetics and the Laurel Review. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and elsewhere.
Robert Hahn is a poet, essayist, and translator...
