Contributor Notes

196 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Judith Adkins holds an mfa in creative writing from George Mason University, a PhD in history from Yale, and a ba in English and history from Duke. She writes prose poems as well as essays. Currently she is working on a collage of essays about gay and lesbian family matters. Peter Balakian is the author of six books of poems, including Junetree : New and Selected Poems and, most recently, Ziggurat (2010). His memoir Black Dog of Fate won the pen/Albrand Prize. He teaches at Colgate. Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize, and The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up/Editor’s Selection for the Green Rose Prize. Her chapbook Show Me Yours (GreenTower Press, 2010) won the 2009 Midwest Poets Series Award. Bar-Nadav is currently an assistant professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Eric Baus is the author of Scared Text (Center for Literary Publishing ), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), and The To Sound (Verse Press/ Wave Books). With Andrea Rexilius, he co-edits Marcel Chapbooks. He lives in Denver. Omnidawn will publish Calvin Bedient’s fourth book of poems, The Multiple, early this fall. Bedient is the co-editor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion (LanaTurnerJournal.com). Victoria Brockmeier’s first book of poems, My Maiden Cowboy Names, won the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize and was published by Truman State University Press. She recently completed her PhD at the University at Buffalo, writing on poetry, secularism, and myth in the twentieth century. Logan Burns is from Baltimore. His poems have been published in Conjunctions, Web Conjunctions, and Barrow Street. Bill Capossere’s work has been listed in the “Notable Essays” section of Best American Essays and nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Previous appearances include Colorado Review, Harper’s “Readings ” section, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rosebud, and other journals , along with the anthologies In Short and Short Takes. He lives in Rochester, New York. 197 Contributor Notes Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta, was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the vqr Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle, was published by Southern Illinois University Press and won the Crab Orchard Review Open Competition. She lives in Southern California and works as a business writer. Maxine Chernoff is the author of six collections of fiction and fourteen books of poems, most recently Without (Shearsman, 2012) and To Be Read in the Dark (Omnidawn, 2012). She is editor of New American Writing, chair of the Creative Writing Department at sfsu, and the co-winner of the pen Translation Award for The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. In winter 2013 she will be a Visiting International Scholar at Exeter University in England. Adam Day is the recipient of a 2010 psa Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha and of a 2011 pen Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Lana Turner, Poetry London, Agni, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He directs the Baltic Writing Residency. Eric Ellingsen’s bio is missing. It had blue eyes and dribbled and said heart over and over. It was the 666th thing I found. Sara Gelston’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she is the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Endi Bogue Hartigan’s book One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008) was selected for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her recent work has appeared in Verse, Volt, Chicago Review, Pleiades, Yew, and other journals. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and son. Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis, where he teaches writing and literature at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts and at the Center for Humanities at Washington University. Other poems can be found in recent issues of Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Phoebe, the Journal, CutBank, Burnside Review, Juked, Sixth Finch...