Contributors
- Contributors
steve amick is the author of the novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing but a Smile, as well as stories in Zoetrope: All-Story, McSweeney’s, and Playboy. He lives in Ann Arbor and teaches in Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program.
matthew baker’s fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, and Conjunctions, and his children’s novel, If You Find This, was published earlier this spring. He has an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review.
aliki barnstone is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak, Bright Body, and the chapbook, Winter, with Child. She translated The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy.
anna lena phillips bell’s recent work includes A Pocket Book of Forms, a letterpress-printed guide to poetic forms. Her poems appear in International Poetry Review and The Southern Poetry Anthology. A contributing editor for American Scientist, she is editor of Ecotone and Lookout Books, and teaches at UNC Wilmington.
fleda brown’s eighth collection of poetry is No Need of Sympathy. Past poet laureate of Delaware, she lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma, Washington.
anders carlson-wee is a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 2015 Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo fellow, and author of Dynamite, winner of the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in Narrative, New England Review, Best New Poets, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
brittany cavallaro is the author of Girl-King. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Tin House. A recipient of scholarships from the [End Page v] Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Wisconsin.
jona colson’s work has appeared in Subtropics, Prairie Schooner, and The Writer’s Chronicle. He teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C.
bonnie costello is a professor of English at Boston University. Her most recent book is Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World. She has published translations of Italian poetry and essays on travel, visual art, nature, and memory. “Inventory: Encounter with a Father’s Memories of War,” a companion piece to her essay herein, appeared in War, Literature and the Arts.
dan encarnacion has published work in Word Riot, Blue Mesa Review, and Eleven Eleven. He was a featured artist for Reconnaissance Magazine and is included in the anthology Reduce: A Collection of Writings from Educe Journal 2012.
alan feldman’s new collection is Immortality. His work has appeared on Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and in Best American Poetry. He continues to offer free drop-in poetry workshops at the public libraries in Framingham and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
erin flanagan is the author of two story collections, The Usual Mistakes and It’s Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and The Missouri Review. She is an associate professor of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
alen hamza was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and immigrated to the United States when he was fifteen. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. He has received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and his work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Fence, and Narrative.
jeffrey harrison is the author of five books of poetry, including Incomplete Knowledge and Into Daylight. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Hudson Review, The Yale Review, and The Kenyon Review.
nick holdstock’s first novel, The Casualties, was published this summer. [End Page vi]
jenneva kayser is a writer and ceramic artist recently transplanted from the Great Lakes to the Sonoran Desert. Her work has appeared in Rattle and Quarter After Eight.
david kirby teaches at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His latest collection, Get Up, Please, will be published by LSU Press in 2016.
jacqueline kolosov’s third poetry collection is Memory of Blue. How Close the Body Comes to Growing Wings...
