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  • Notes on Contributors

CHAD ABUSHANAB’s poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, 32 Poems, Measure, Unsplendid, The Raintown Review, and others. He is a doctoral student of Literature and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University and is the poetry editor for Arcadia.

ANNA LENA PHILLIPS BELL’s work includes A Pocket Book of Forms, a travelsized, fine-press guide to poetic forms. Her poems have recently appeared in Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Colorado Review. The recipient of a 2016 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, she teaches at UNC Wilmington and is editor of Ecotone. “Honeysuckle” is part of her first poetry collection, Ornament, which received the Vassar Miller Prize and is forthcoming in spring 2017.

GEORGE BILGERE’s most recent collection of poetry is Imperial (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014). His work is familiar to National Public Radio audiences through his frequent appearances on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Pushcart Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. He lives and teaches in Cleveland, Ohio, which has made him hardy and resolute.

CHRISTOPHER CHILDERS lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He has poems, essays, and translations published or forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Agni, Parnassus, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a translation for Penguin Classics of Latin and Greek lyric poetry from Archilochus to Martial.

HELENA CHUNG serves as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. In 2016, she was a fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her work appears in The Journal, DIALOGIST, The Boiler Journal, and elsewhere.

BILL COYLE is a poet and translator living in Somerville, Massachusetts. His most recent book is a volume of translations of the Swedish poet Håkan Sandell, Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999–2016.

KEVIN CRAFT is the author of Solar Prominence, selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books (2005), and editor of five volumes of the anthology Mare Nostrum. A new collection, Vagrants & Accidentals, will be published in spring 2017 by UW Press. He directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College, and teaches in the University of Washington’s Creative Writing in Rome Program. Editor of Poetry Northwest from 2009–2016, he now serves as the executive editor of Poetry NW Editions. [End Page 623]

PAUL DEAN is a freelance critic living in Oxford, U.K., and a Founding Fellow of the English Association. He is a frequent contributor to The New Criterion.

DENIS DONOGHUE is Emeritus University Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Metaphor.

BEN EISMAN’s fiction has appeared in The New England Review and Commentary Magazine. A former criminal prosecutor, he lives in Washington, DC.

JACK L. B. GOHN, when not practicing law, is the author of a column on law and policy in the Maryland Daily Record, a theater critic for BroadwayWorld.com, and an occasional book reviewer.

DEBORA GREGER is Professor Emerita, University of Florida, and Poet-in-Residence, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. By Herself appeared in 2012. In Darwin’s Room will be published by Penguin in 2017. Her art has appeared on the covers of books and literary journals for thirty years.

MARILYN HACKER is the author of thirteen books of poems, including A Stranger’s Mirror (Norton, 2015), Names (Norton, 2010), and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003), an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices (Michigan, 2010), and fourteen collections of translations of French and Francophone poets including Emmanuel Moses, Marie Etienne, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Habib Tengour and Rachida Madani. DiaspoRenga, a collaborative sequence written with Deema Shehabi, was published by Holland Park Press in 2014. She lives in Paris.

MARK HALLIDAY teaches at Ohio University. His sixth book of poems, Thresherphobe, was published in 2013 by the University of Chicago Press.

ERNEST HILBERT lives in Philadelphia. His latest collection of poems is Caligulan.

FLORIAN HILD grew up in Germany and came to the United States 23 years ago to study philosophy and run track. Since 2001 he has been teaching at Ridgeview Classical Schools in Fort Collins, CO, where he also served as principal from 2008...

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