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AUSTIN ALLEN’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, 32 Poems, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. His essays appear frequently via The Poetry Foundation website. His first poetry collection, Pleasures of the Game, won the 2016 Anthony Hecht Prize and is forthcoming from The Waywiser Press.

DANIEL ANDERSON teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. His most recent collection of poems is The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel.

HAMATUL BAR-YOSEF has won the Akum Prize (1978), Tel Aviv Prize (1984), the Jerusalem Prize for poetry (1997), the WIZO Prize for the Creative Woman (1999), the President of Israel Prize for poetry (2002), and the Brenner Prize for poetry (2005). Her poems have been translated into English, German, Yiddish, Arabic and various other languages.

HAROLD BLOOM is at work on a vast book titled Possessed by Memory.

RICHARD BURGIN is the author of 19 books, including nine collections of stories, the most recent of which, Don’t Think, will be published this spring by Johns Hopkins University Press. His stories have won five Pushcart Prizes and he is the publisher and founding editor of Boulevard Magazine.

CALLY CONAN-DAVIES hails from the island of Tasmania. Her poems appear in The Hudson Review, Subtropics, Poetry, The New Criterion, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. She is a writer who lives by the sea.

TRISTAN DAVIES is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.

COLIN FLEMING’s fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in VQR, AGNI, Post Road, Black Clock, Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared in Boston Magazine, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He’s a regular guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition and is presently completing three books: The Freeze Tag, Same Band You’ve Never Known: An Alternative Musical History of the Beatles, and Musings with Franklin.

JACK L. B. GOHN, when not practicing law, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and an occasional book reviewer. [End Page 301]

JASON GRAY is the author of Photographing Eden, winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks: How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. He co-edits the online journal Unsplendid and serves as the associate editor for The Writer’s Chronicle.

MARK HALLIDAY teaches at Ohio University. His sixth book of poems Thresherphobe was published in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press.

JACK HANSON is contributing editor to Partisan and a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in Bookslut, Full-Stop, Open Letters Monthly, The Scofield, The Quarterly Conversation, and elsewhere.

JEFFERSON HUNTER is The Hopkins Review’s film critic and the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. His most recent project, for an online course, is a set of fourteen hour-long videos on the art of film.

X. J. KENNEDY has three recent books: a translation of The Bestiary of Guillaume Apollinaire (Johns Hopkins University Press), Fits of Concision: Collected Poems of Six or Fewer Lines (Grolier Poetry Press), and a comic novel A Hoarse Half-human Cheer (Curtis Brown). He received the 2015 Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers.

BRAD LEITHAUSER’s most recent book of poetry is The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems. His most recent novel is The Art Student’s War.

CHARLES MARTIN is a former Poet-in-Residence at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and his most recent book of poems is Signs & Wonders, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011. W.W. Norton & Co. published his version of the Bhagavad Gita (translated with Gavin Flood) in 2012.

JEAN MCGARRY teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of eight books of fiction.

RUTH MADIEVSKY is the author of a poetry collection, Emergency Brake, which was named Tavern Books’ 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection and was...

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