Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
brian barker is the author of The Animal Gospels and The Black Ocean. His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, Blackbird, and Pleiades. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and is a poetry editor of Copper Nickel.
A native New Yorker, mary blume lives in Paris, where she was for many years a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. Her most recent book is The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World.
judy brackett has published short fiction and poems in About Place and The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets. She teaches at Sierra College, in Northern California.
laura bylenok’s poems have appeared in The Hopkins Review, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Artful Dodge, and other journals. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.
brittany cavallaro’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, Tin House, and Best New Poets 2011. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
pura lópez colomé has published eleven volumes of poetry. In 2008, she was awarded Mexico’s most prestigious poetry prize, the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. She has also published Spanish translations of work by Samuel Beckett, H.D., and Robert Hass. dan bellm teaches literary translation at Antioch University Los Angeles. His most recent collection of poems, Practice, won the 2009 California Book Award.
susan comninos’s poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, The Cortland Review, and Nashville Review. Recently she completed a debut book of poems, Out of Nowhere.
luke daly lives in Buffalo with his wife and daughters. He teaches writing and literature classes at Villa Maria College of Buffalo. His work has appeared in Architrave Press, Basalt, Comstock Review, and Cream City Review.
moshe dor, born in Tel Aviv in 1932, is a recipient of the Bialik Prize and twice winner of Israel’s Prime Minister’s Award in Literature. His poems have been translated into some thirty languages. barbara goldberg is the author of several collections of poems, most recently Kingdom of Speculation, and the translator of Moshe Dor’s Scorched by the Sun.
jamie fisher is a freelance writer and Mandarin Chinese translator whose critical writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Bookforum, among other publications.
alice friman’s latest collection is The View from Saturn. Her previous collection, Vinculum, won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. She won a 2012 Pushcart Prize and is included in Best American Poetry 2009. She is poet in residence at Georgia College, in Milledgeville.
The recipient of numerous prizes, including the prestigious Premio Cervantes, the Argentine poet juan gelman (1930–2014) spent much of his life in exile, working as a journalist and a translator in Spain, France, Italy, and Mexico and publishing more than twenty books. lisa rose bradford teaches comparative literature at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina. Four of her bilingual volumes of Juan Gelman’s poetry have appeared since 2010. She is currently translating Gelman’s last book, Hoy.
andrew grace is the author of three books of poems. His work has recently appeared in The New Yorker, The New Criterion, and Conjunctions. He teaches at Kenyon College, in Ohio.
hilary jacqmin earned her MA from Johns Hopkins University and her MFA from the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2011, PANK, and Passages North. [End Page 180] She lives in Baltimore, where she works at Johns Hopkins University Press.
The Polish poet lidia kosk is the author of eleven books of poetry and short stories, including two bilingual volumes. Her poems have been translated into several languages, as well as into choral compositions and multimedia video presentations. danuta kosk-kosicka is the author of Oblige the Light, winner of the fifth Harriss Poetry Prize, and Face Half-Illuminated, a book of poems, translations, and prose. She is also the translator of two bilingual books of poems by Lidia Kosk.
rebecca lilly holds an MFA...
