Contributor Notes

183 Kelsey L. Bennett is a doctoral candidate at the University of Denver writing about the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman in America and England. Amaranth Borsuk’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Field, Eleven Eleven, Columbia Poetry Review, Action Yes, and Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. A chapbook, Tonal Saw, was just published by The Song Cave. She cocurates The Loudest Voice reading series in Los Angeles. Tara Bray’s first book, Mistaken for Song, was published by Persea Books. Her new work has recently appeared or will soon appear in Southern Review, Puerto Del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, and West Branch. Lily Brown holds an mfa from Saint Mary’s College of California. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming in fall 2010 from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion, Equivocal, and 100 Notes on Violence. She is the co-editor of Counterpath Press, with Tim Roberts, and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, which won the 2008 Yale Younger Poets Prize. She lives in Denver. Martin Cozza’s fiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, Columbia , Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Best American Fantasy 3. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been a resident at Yaddo. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and children. Brett DeFries was born in Topeka, Kansas, but now lives in Missoula , Montana. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Orleans Review, Laurel Review, Phoebe, West Branch, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. CONTRIBUTOR NOTES colorado review 184 Darcie Dennigan is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, which was named Coldfront magazine’s best first collection of poetry in 2008. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Kate Greenstreet’s second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a dvd containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet’s case sensitive in 2006. Find out more at kickingwind.com. Michelle Hicks was born in Louisiana and spent the rest of her childhood in California, Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. She recently graduated with highest honors in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently pursuing graduate work in education at Harvard University. Rachel Jackson holds an mfa in nonfiction from California State University, Fresno. Originally from Austin, Texas, she has lived in Florida, California, Scotland, and Saudi Arabia. She is currently at work on her first book. Jennifer Wisner Kelly is a student in the mfa program at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Carlisle, Massachusetts. Brian Kevin’s essays and feature articles have appeared in Outside, Sierra, and High Country News. He holds an mfa in creative nonfiction from the University of Montana and currently lives in Joseph, Oregon. Nancy Kuhl is the author of Suspend (2010), The Wife of the Left Hand (2007), and chapbooks including The Nocturnal Factory (2008). She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher. www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm Melissa Lambert recently completed her mfa in creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and has published creative nonfiction and poetry, along with academic papers and commissioned articles , in a number of print and online publications. Z. Cody Lee is a bookmaker and poet from Minnesota. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana, where he is writing, drawing, and translating the complete poems of Blaise Cendrars from French into English . Visit www.gendun.com to view more of his work. 185 Contributor Notes Susan Maxwell holds an mfa in poetry from Iowa Writers’ Workshop . Her first book, Passenger, was published in 2005 as a winner of the University of Georgia’s Contemporary Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Volt, Gutcult, American Letters & Commentary, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crowd, among other places. She is currently working on a doctorate in clinical psychology. Derek Mong will publish his...