Contributor Notes

180 Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, Face, poetry from Hanging Loose Press, and War Dances, stories and poems from Grove Press. He lives with his family in Seattle. Caroline Arden’s fiction has appeared in New Delta Review and the Montreal Review. A recipient of an mfa from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, she has been a finalist in Narrative magazine ’s “30 Below” contest and Glimmer Train’s “Family Matters” and “New Writers” contests. Laynie Browne is the author of nine collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent books include Roseate, Points of Gold, The Desires of Letters, and The Scented Fox. Currently she edits for Tarpaulin Sky and Trickhouse and teaches at the University of Arizona. Susanna Childress’s first book, Jagged with Love, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. Her second book, Entering the House of Awe, will be out this fall from New Issues Press. She lives in Holland, Michigan. Andrew D. Cohen teaches English at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and two sons. His essays have appeared in such journals as the Missouri Review, Confrontation , upstreet, the Saint Ann’s Review, and Hunger Mountain (as the winner of the Creative Nonfiction Award). Dot Dannenberg’s work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices and Present Tense Writers’ Journal. She lives outside Washington , D.C., and holds an mfa in poetry from Pacific University. Poems by Stuart Greenhouse have appeared in the Antioch Review, Fence, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. He is also the author of two chapbooks: What Remains (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and All Architecture (End and Shelf Press, 2007). Nicholas Gulig is the recipient of the Mark Leidner, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg, and Ruskin Art Club awards for poetry. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he currently resides in Missoula, Montana. CONTRIBUTOR NOTES 181 Contributor Notes Joe Hiland was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently an mfa candidate at Indiana University. “When the Green Went Away” is his first published short story. Mark Irwin is the author of six collections of poetry; the last three include White City (boa, 2000), Bright Hunger (boa, 2004), and Tall If (New Issues, 2008). He lives in Colorado and Los Angeles, California , where he teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Jennifer Wisner Kelly holds an mfa from Warren Wilson College and is currently at work on her first novel. She lives in Carlisle, Massachusetts . Jason Labbe is the author of a chapbook, Dear Photographer (Phylum Press), and has poems appearing or forthcoming in A Public Space, Poetry, Boston Review, Conjunctions, and American Letters & Commentary. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut. Norman Lock’s most recent publications are Grim Tales and the novel Shadowplay. Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. Lock received a 2011 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also a recipient of the Paris Review’s Aga Kahn Prize. Michael McLane earned an mfa in poetry from Colorado State University . His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly , Matter Journal, Colorado Review, Interim, Laurel Review, and ReDactions, among others. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, where he works for Ken Sanders Rare Books and is the book-review editor for Sugar House Review. James O’Brien graduated from Iowa State University’s mfa in Creative Writing in spring 2011. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Collagist, Fourteen Hills, Pank, Stymie, NY Tyrant, J Journal, Criminal Class Review, Denver Syntax, Portland Review, and Pisgah Review. Contact him at jdobrienwrites@gmail.com. Barry Pearce studied journalism at Northwestern University and English at New Mexico State. His story “Clearing” appeared in Colorado Review several years ago, and he’s happy to be back in its pages. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at the City Colleges. colorado review 182 Jody Rambo is the author of a chapbook, Tethering World, winner of the Wick Chapbook Prize (Kent State University Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Notre...