Featured Contributors
- Featured Contributors
Howard Axelrod is the author of The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude (Beacon, 2015), from which “Into the Blind Spot” is adapted. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Shambhala Sun, Harvard Magazine, and the Boston Globe. He received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship from Harvard and has been awarded residencies from the Blue Mountain Center, Ucross, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Amanda Giracca’s essays and reportage have appeared in Aeon, Fourth Genre, the Magazine, and Terrain.org, and have received support from the Playa Fellowship Residency Program. She’s an editor for Vela Magazine and a lecturer in SUNY Albany’s Writing and Critical Inquiry Program.
Jenna Krajeski’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Harper’s, and elsewhere. For four years, she was based in Istanbul, where, with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, she reported on regional issues with a focus on the Kurdish populations in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. She is a 2015–16 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan.
COURTESY OF MACARTHUR FOUNDATION A. E. Stallings is the author of three books of poetry: Olives (TriQuarterly, 2012), Hapax (TriQuarterly, 2006), and Archaic Smile (Evansville, 1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award. Her verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things (2007), was published by Penguin Classics. Stallings received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. She lives with her family in Athens, Greece.
Dawn Whitmore is an independent documentary photographer and visual artist. In 2015 she exhibited at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona and held a solo exhibition of Gun Love at the Arlington Arts Center in Virginia. [End Page 7]
Taylor Antrim is a senior editor at Vogue and the author of the novels Immunity (Regan Arts, 2015) and The Headmaster Ritual (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). His short stories have appeared in Five Chapters, American Short Fiction, and Best American Short Stories.
Richard Bausch is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Before, During, After (Knopf, 2014) and Something Is Out There (Knopf, 2010). He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award. The editor of the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Bausch teaches creative writing at Chapman University. He is a VQR Contributing Editor.
Ann Beattie is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short stories have been published in four O. Henry Prize collections, as well as in John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Beattie’s numerous books include The State We’re In: Maine Stories (Scribner, 2015) and The New Yorker: Stories (Scribner, 2010).
Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. is the director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English and the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies. His most recent book is The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950 (LSU, 2009).
Brendan Bullock is a freelance photographer. His work has appeared in Preservation, Maine Magazine, and numerous gallery exhibitions.
Nadia Shira Cohen is a foreign photography correspondent for the New York Times as well as a frequent contributor to National Geographic Brazil and Harper’s.
Julia Cooke is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba (Seal, 2014). Her essays and articles have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, the New York Times, A Public Space, Salon, Guernica, and Saveur, and have been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing 2014 and Best Women’s Travel Writing. She has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and Columbia University and teaches writing at the New School.
Pamela Erens is the author of the novels Eleven Hours (Tin House, 2016); The Virgins (Tin House, 2013), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; and The Understory (Ironweed, 2007), a finalist for the...
