Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
farah ahamed is a Kenyan lawyer living in the U.K. She has been published by Kwani?, Bridge House, Fey, New Lit Salon Press, Missing Slate, Two Serious Ladies, Out of Print, and Thresholds. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Leeds Literary Prize, nominated for the Pushcart and Caine Prize for African writing, and was a finalist in the Out of Print/DNA 2015 Short Story Competition.
amanda anastasi is a Melbourne writer and poet. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., the U.K., and Ireland. Her debut collection, 2012 and other poems, was listed in “Top Ten Poetic Works of 2012” in Overland Literary Journal. Her poetry was shortlisted for the W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize and the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award.
laure-anne bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf; Small Gods of Grief; and A New Hunger, selected as an ALA Notable Book for 2008. With her husband Kurt Brown, she translated Herman de Coninck’s The Plural of Happiness. The editor of four anthologies and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College, and is part of the core faculty at the low residency MFA in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College.
Professor john h. bracey, jr. has taught in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1972. He is co-director of the department’s graduate certificate in African Diaspora Studies. His publications include Black Nationalism in America; the prize-winning African American Women and the Vote: 1837–1965; Strangers and Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States (with Maurianne Adams); and African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century (with Manisha Sinha).
marcelo cohen was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a renowned novelist, journalist, translator, and essayist. He currently coedits Otra Parte, a literary and arts journal. He was cofounder of Montesinos Press and consultant for Icaria Press. He directed the series Península Narrativa published by Península and was editorial advisor for Anaya and Mario Muchnik. He has translated more than a hundred books into Spanish, published eighteen novels and short-story collections, four literary nonfiction books, and countless essays in journals and newspapers.
julia conrad graduated from Wesleyan University in 2014. Since then, she has worked as a high school teacher in northern Italy, and as the assistant to a literary agent in New York. She has played violin in regional orchestras based in Milan, Varese, and Bologna. This is her first publication.
geffrey davis is the author of Revising the Storm, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist. He also coauthored, with poet F. Douglas Brown, Begotten, a chapbook. His honors include fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and Vermont Studio Center, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize. Davis teaches at the University of Arkansas.
matt donovan is the author of two collections of poetry—Vellum and the chapbook Rapture & the Big Bam—and a collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption. He is the recipient of a Rome Prize in Literature, a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. Donovan teaches at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and is collaborating on a chamber opera titled Inheritance.
tony eprile is a photographer, amateur naturalist, and writer who lives in Bennington, VT. His novel The Persistence of Memory was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Koret Jewish Book prize. He completed a memoir about his family’s move from South Africa to England and is working on a novel. He teaches in Lesley University’s low-residency graduate program.
harley erdman is a theater writer whose work includes plays, opera librettos, book [End Page 807] and lyrics for musicals, translations, and adaptations. He is...
