Contributor Notes

175 Janelle Adsit’s poems have appeared in Caketrain, Oyez Review, Inkwell , Euphony, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn. Founder of the Poetry Center at Smith College, Annie Boutelle teaches in the English Department there as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poetin -Residence. She has published poems in the Georgia Review, the Hudson Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of Becoming Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter (University of Arkansas Press) and Nest of Thistles (Northeastern University Press), winner of the 2005 Samuel French Morse Prize. For more information, see annieboutelle.com. Jennie A. Camp holds a phd in American literature from the University of Denver and an mfa in fiction writing from Colorado State University . Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Western American Literature, and the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, among other publications. She lives in Platteville, Colorado, with her husband and five children. Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion, Equivocal, and 100 Notes on Violence, forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. She is the co-editor of Counterpath Press, with Tim Roberts, and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Steven Church’s essay is excerpted from his book The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst. He is also the author of Theoretical Killings: Essays & Accidents and The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record. He teaches in the mfa program at Fresno State and for the low-residency mfa program at the University of New Orleans. He is a founding editor of the Normal School and a contributing editor for Colorado Review. Joe Collins will complete his mfa in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2010 and has recently published fiction in the online journal Super Arrow. He is a native of Chicago. CONTRIBUTOR NOTES colorado review 176 Jon Cotner lives in New York City, where he is completing his phd for suny Buffalo’s Poetics Program. He is also working on a collaborative book with Andy Fitch called Conversations over Stolen Food. Publications include 1913, Animal Shelter, Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Paper Monument, and UbuWeb. Dana Curtis’s first full-length collection of poetry, The Body’s Response to Famine, won the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Award. She has also published several chapbooks, the most recent of which is Antiviolet, forthcoming from Pudding House. She is the editor-in-chief of Elixir Press. Kristina Marie Darling studies philosophy at the University of Missouri , St. Louis. Her poetry criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in the Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, Shenandoah, Pleiades, and other journals. Katherine Factor is the poet-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy. She is calling for an end to the Canadian Tar Sands project and destruction of First Nation rights—for more information, please see ienearth.org. Andy Fitch is the author of Sixty Morning Walks (Editions Eclipse, 2008). Ten Walks/Two Talks, his collaboration with Jon Cotner, was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Other publications include Arizona Quarterly, Eoagh, Lit, n+1, and Octopus Magazine. He is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming’s mfa Program. Ryan Flaherty has two chapbooks: Live, from the Delay from Small Fires Press and Novas from Bateau Press as the winner of their 2008 Boom Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared in journals including Conduit, Lit, Columbia, Denver Quarterly, and Ninth Letter . He currently lives and teaches in Dover, New Hampshire. Erin Flanagan is the author of the short story collection The Usual Mistakes (University of Nebraska Press). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, the Florida Review, Crazyhorse, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere. This is her third appearance in Colorado Review. She is an assistant professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Joshua Harmon is the author of Scape, a book of poems (2009), and Quinnehtukqut, a novel (2007), which was short-listed for the Cabell First Novelist Award. Other poems from “Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie ” appear in the Massachusetts Review and Typo. 177 Contributor Notes Richard Hoffman is author of the collections Without Paradise and Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow...