Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Catherine Browder’s most recent collection, Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov, is from BkMk Press (Nov 2014). She is the author of two previous collections and a feuillet, and has received fellowships from the NEA and the Missouri Arts Council. Her award-winning stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, including Nimrod, Shenandoah, American Fiction, Prairie Schooner, Big Muddy and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is an advisory editor for New Letters magazine, where her book reviews frequently appear. A member of the Dramatist Guild, her plays have been produced regionally and in the HotInk! New Play Festival in NYC. [End Page 357]
John Philip Drury teaches at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press, 2015), The Refugee Camp (Turning Point Books, 2011), Burning the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press, 2003), and The Disappearing Town (Miami University Press, 2000). He has also written The Poetry Dictionary and Creating Poetry (both from Writer’s Digest Books). His awards include an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council grants, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. Another narrative essay, “The House That She Designed,” appeared in The Gettysburg Review (Summer 2011), and “Interrogator’s Guide” is forthcoming in The Evansville Review. “Heading for a Total Eclipse” is the opening chapter of a picaresque memoir, The Bad Soldier. Photo by Lisa A. Venture. [End Page 358]
Anne Elliott’s stories can be seen in Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, FRiGG, JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, Fugue, Opium, Pindeldyboz, The Normal School, and others. She has received The Normal Prize in short fiction, a Bridport Prize Highly Commendable in short fiction, and was a finalist for the Spokane Prize. She was awarded fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Table 4 Writer’s Foundation, and Tomales Bay Writer’s Workshop. Elliott is a veteran of the New York spoken word circuit, with stage credits including The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, PS122, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project. She earned an MFA in visual art from University of California, San Diego, and lives in South Portland, Maine with her husband and many pets. Visit her at www.AnneElliottStories.com. [End Page 359]
Kevin A. González is the author of a collection of poems, Cultural Studies, and the co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. His stories have been awarded the Narrative Prize, the Playboy College Fiction Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Award, and they have appeared in Narrative, Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading and in two editions of Best New American Voices. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as editor of jubilat. [End Page 360]
Robert Howard is a veteran writer whose work spans the spectrum from journalism to business writing to literary criticism. “Found Wanting” is his first foray in creative nonfiction. Mr. Howard is the author and editor of three books. His reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, the Boston Review, and PsyArts, an online journal for the psychological study of the arts founded by Norman Holland. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Howard is a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College and did graduate work in history and sociology at the University of Cambridge and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. He has won awards for his writing from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the United Steelworkers Press Association. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Mr. Howard lives in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. To learn more about his work, visit his personal website, www.roberthoward.com. [End Page 361]
Suzanne Matson’s most recent novel is The Tree-Sitter, published by W. W. Norton and shortlisted for the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize in 2006. Her previous two novels, also from Norton, are A Trick of Nature and The Hunger Moon. She is currently writing a...
