Contributors
- Contributors
lauren alwan’s fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in the Bellevue Literary Review as a recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Northwest Review of Books, and The Rumpus, and one was named notable in Best American Essays 2016. She is an editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review.
wendy barker’s sixth collection of poems, One Blackbird at a Time, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Her fourth chapbook is From the Moon, Earth is Blue. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, she teaches at University of Texas at San Antonio.
joelle biele is the author of White Summer and Broom and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Her poem “Paradise Lost,” in this issue, is based on “Why Women Become Hoboes,” by Walter C. Reckless. Her poetry book Tramp will be published by LSU Press in 2018.
karina borowicz is the author of two poetry collections, Proof and The Bees Are Waiting. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, as well as on The Writer’s Almanac and in the American Life in Poetry series.
david bottoms’s first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was chosen by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. He lives with his wife and daughter in Atlanta, where he holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. A new book of poems, Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch, will be released by Copper Canyon Press in 2018.
james lee burke has published thirty-five novels and two story collections. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His work has received two Edgar Awards. He is also a Bread Loaf fellow and a Guggenheim [End Page v] fellow and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. In 2009 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
george david clark teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College. His first book, Reveille, won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. His work can be found in AGNI, Image, and The Gettysburg Review. He is also the editor of the journal 32 Poems.
nicole cooley’s newest collection of poems, Girl after Girl after Girl, will appear with LSU Press in 2017. She has also published five other poetry books, a novel, and the chapbook Frozen Charlottes, A Sequence. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, and Narrative. She directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
kay cosgrove’s poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, and FIELD. She received her PhD in American literature and creative writing from the University of Houston, and she currently teaches at Saint Joseph’s University as a visiting assistant professor of English.
deborah flanagan’s chapbook, Or, Gone, was the winner of Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat. She lives in New York City.
jessica goodfellow is the author of Mendeleev’s Mandala and The Insomniac’s Weather Report. Recipient of the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal, her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and Motionpoems, and on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Japan.
chloe honum is the author of The Tulip-Flame, which was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Orion, The Paris Review, and Pushcart Prize XL, among other anthologies and journals. She was raised in Auckland, New Zealand, and currently teaches at Baylor University.
luke johnson is the author of the poetry collection After the Ark. His poems have been published in New England Review, Poetry Daily, and The Threepenny Review. He is the poetry editor at storySouth and lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches high school. [End Page vi]
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