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  • Contributors’ NotesWinter 2015-2016

Laurie Baker contributed to the short story collection curated by designer Kate Spade, She Is Quick, Curious, Playful, and Strong; published a Story-of-the-Week in Narrative magazine; and was awarded the Larry Levis Post-Graduate stipend to complete a collection of stories. She is finishing a novel-in-stories about South Africa titled How We Entertain Ourselves in Isolation. She lives in Medfield, Mass., with her husband and two daughters.

Piyali Bhattacharya is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Her edited anthology, Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and is forthcoming from Aunt Lute Books in 2016. Piyali is currently completing an MFA. in fiction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. An excerpt of her novel-in-progress won the 2015 Peter Straub Award for Fiction. She can be reached at piyalibhattacharya.com.

George Bilgere’s most recent book of poems is Imperial, from the University of Pittsburgh Press (2014). He has won the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Midland Authors Award, a Witter Bynner Fellowship and the May Swenson Poetry Award. His poems are often featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and he has appeared as a guest on A [End Page 214] Prairie Home Companion. Bilgere teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Francisco Cantú served as a Border Patrol Agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012. A former Fulbright fellow, he is a frequent contributor to Guernica and a contributing editor at Public Books. He is currently at work on a book about his time in the borderlands.

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis is a founding director of the Washington, DC–based arts nonprofit The Asian American Literary Review (aalrmag.org). A consultant with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, he currently coordinates the Smithsonian Asian-Latino Project. Since 2006, he has taught for the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. His fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Gastronomica, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review, AGNI online, and Fiction International, among other publications.

Born in Tennessee and raised in Wisconsin, Graham Foust is the author of five previous books of poems, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. With Samuel Frederick, he has also translated three books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space (Wave Books, 2014). He works at the University of Denver.

Born in New Haven, Conn., Julian Gewirtz is a doctoral student in history at Oxford University, where he is a Rhodes scholar. His poems have been published by Boston Review, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, and The Yale Review, among other publications, and his critical writing has been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New Yorker online, and the Poetry Foundation.

Adam Giannelli’s poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Yale Review, FIELD, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and the editor of High Lonesome (Oberlin College Press, 2006), a collection of essays on Charles Wright. He currently studies at the University of Utah.

Janice N. Harrington’s Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (BOA Editions, 2007) won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her latest book is The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (BOA Editions, 2011).

Richie Hofmann is the author of a collection of poems, Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. He is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and his poems appear in The New Yorker, Yale Review, The New Republic, and Poetry. [End Page 215]

Liam Hysjulien’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The American Reader, The Brooklyn Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has studied poetry at the University...

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