Contributor Notes

176 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Tory Adkisson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Salamander, Pebble Lake Review, 32 Poems, Cave Wall, Birmingham Poetry Review, Third Coast, and Sou’wester, among others. He holds an mfa in creative writing from the Ohio State University and is the former poetry editor of the Journal. Swiss native E. C. Belli’s work has appeared in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Diagram, the Antioch Review, Caketrain, Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle, and PO&SIE (France). She is the author of Plein Jeu (Accents Publishing, 2010), was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is an editor at Argos Books. Amy Butcher is a recent graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she is the managing editor of Defunct (DefunctMag.com). She will join Colgate University as the 2012–13 Olive B. O’Connor fellow in nonfiction writing, and recent work has appeared in Indiana Review, North American Review, and Brevity. Jo Ann Clark’s poetry and translations have appeared in Boston Review , the New Republic, Prairie Schooner, the Paris Review, and Western Humanities Review, among others. Anthologized work appears in Reactions 4 and in Hot Sonnets. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in international schools in Italy. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Jesse Damiani is an mfa candidate at the University of WisconsinMadison , where he is the reviews editor and outreach coordinator for Devil’s Lake. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, and his recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, and Washington Square. Kristina Marie Darling’s most recent book is Melancholia (An Essay ), from Ravenna Press (2012). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation. 177 Contributor Notes Sandra Demarest received an mfa in writing from the University of Arizona, where she was fortunate to study with Jonathan Penner, Buzz Poverman, and the late, great Jon Anderson. She currently lives in Tucson , sharing a house with her daughter and their two dogs. Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin, and works at the Racine Public Library. His self-titled manuscript was selected by Joyelle McSweeney for the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series Award and was published by Fence Books. You can visit him online at his blog nickipoo.wordpress.com. Thom Donovan edits the weblog Wild Horses of Fire, now in its seventh year. His book The Hole (Displaced Press, 2012) can be purchased through Small Press Distribution. He is currently at work revising and editing a book of essays and statements, provisionally titled “Sovereignty and Us.” Laura Eve Engel’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, Salt Hill, Volt, and elsewhere. [Spoiler Alert], a prose chapbook she co-wrote, is available from Dzanc Books. Maggie Evans’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Bellingham Review, InDigest, Willows Wept Review, Diagram, Alice Blue Review, Black Warrior Review, and other publications. She is currently writing a dissertation on contemporary American women’s poetry for the PhD in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Oregon. Catherine Faurot’s first poetry book, Plow Harrow Seed, was published in 2006 by FootHills Publishing. She recently completed an mfa degree at Bennington College and holds a master’s degree from Dartmouth in creative writing. Her poems have been published in the Christian Century, the New Orphic Review, and the Classical Outlook , among other publications. Carole Firstman is finishing her mfa at California State University, Fresno. Her work has appeared in Knee-Jerk, Reed Magazine, the Valley Voice, and other places. Awards include Solas Best Travel Writing and Writer’s Digest Magazine Feature Writing. She works as an intern for the Normal School and teaches undergraduate writing. Jessica Garratt’s book Fire Pond won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Utah Press in 2009. She has been working on her second collection of poems at such places as the Carson McCullers...