Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
SALLY BALL is the author of Wreck Me and Annus Mirabilis, both from Barrow Street Press. She’s an associate director of Four Way Books and also an associate professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe. She’s the recipient of recent fellowships from the Camac Centre d’Art and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.*
ANNE BARNGROVER is the author of Yell Hound Blues and coauthor with Avni Vyas of the chapbook Candy in Our Brains. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in North American Review, Copper Nickel, Harpur Palate, Crazyhorse, and Mid-American Review, among others. She holds an MFA from Florida State University and a PhD from the University of Missouri.*
ZEINA HASHEM BECK is a Lebanese poet whose first collection, To Live in Autumn, won the 2013 Backwaters Prize. Her work has been nominated for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and appears in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Poetry Daily, the Common, Rattle, 32 Poems, and the Rialto, among others.*
BELLE BOGGS is the author of Mattaponi Queen, winner of the Bakeless Prize and finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her nonfiction book, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, will be published in September.
ADRIENNE CELT is the author of the novel The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award, and has published short fiction in Esquire, the Kenyon Review, Puerto del Sol, and Blackbird, among other places. Her comics and essays can be found in The Rumpus, The Toast, The Millions, the Tin House Open Bar, and elsewhere. She publishes a webcomic (most) every Wednesday called Love Among the Lampreys.*
LEILA CHATTI is a Tunisian-American poet. The recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, a scholarship from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and prizes from Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest and the Academy of American Poets, her poems appear in Best New Poets, Narrative, North American Review, the Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.*
JENNIFER CLARK is the author of the full-length poetry collection Necessary Clearings, from Shabda Press. Her work has been published in failbetter, Fiction Fix, Nimrod, and Flyway, among other places. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
MARYANN CORBETT’s third book of poetry, Mid Evil, won the Richard Wilbur Award for 2014. Her work appears in such journals as Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, the Dark Horse, Measure, Rattle, River Styx, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and Water~Stone Review and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, and the Writer’s Almanac.
GILLIAN CUMMINGS is the author of My Dim Aviary, which was chosen as the winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize and will be published this fall by Black Lawrence Press. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Barrow Street, Cider Press Review, the Journal, and New Orleans Review. She is also a visual artist.* [End Page 215]
SARAH GIRAGOSIAN’s poems appear or are forthcoming in such journals as Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, Flyway, and Verse Daily, among others. A winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, her first book, Queer Fish, is under contract with Dream Horse Press and will be published in 2016. She teaches in the Department of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany–SUNY.*
CARY HOLLADAY’s seven volumes of fiction include Horse People: Stories, released by Louisiana State University Press in 2013, and The Deer in the Mirror, released by Ohio State University Press, also in 2013. A native of Virginia, she has received an O. Henry Prize and an NEA fellowship. She teaches at the University of Memphis.
DANIEL A. HOYT teaches and currently directs the creative writing program at Kansas State University. His first story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was published by University of Massachusetts Press.*
DANA JOHNSON is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark, forthcoming from Counterpoint in August 2016. She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor...
