Contributors
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Tiana Clark is the author of the chapbook Equilibrium. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize and 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and is currently an MFA candidate and teaching assistant at Vanderbilt University where she serves as Poetry Editor for Nashville Review.
Stephanie Danler is the author of Sweetbitter. She is currently working on nonfiction and is based in Los Angeles.
Katy Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake (Pleiades Press, 2013). A former Hodder fellow at Princeton University, she is currently an assistant professor at Ball State University.
Sidik Fofana received an MFA in Creative Writing from nyu and teaches high school in Brooklyn. This is his first published story.
Lauren Groff is the author of four books, including Fates and Furies.
Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. Her poems have appeared in the Believer, Gulf Coast, the Massachusetts Review, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
Adam Kirsch is the author of Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander (Other Press, 2015) and other books of poetry and criticism. [End Page ii]
Michael Knight’s newest book, a collection of linked stories titled Eveningland, will be published in March of 2017 by Grove Atlantic. He is also the author of two novels (The Typist and Divining Rod), two previous collections (Goodnight, Nobody and Dogfight and Other Stories) and a book of novellas (The Holiday Season).
Edgar Kunz is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a 2017 nea Fellow in Creative Writing. His poems appear in agni, Narrative, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and other places.
Jill McCorkle is the author of numerous works of fiction, most recently the novel Life After Life (Algonquin Books).
Ansley McDurmon and Alec Hill are editorial assistants at the Sewanee Review.
Jon Meacham, a biographer, teaches at Vanderbilt and at the University of the South. He lives in Nashville.
Jamie Quatro is the author of the story collection I Want To Show You More. A novel, “Fire Sermon,” and a second collection, “Next Time I’ll Be Louder,” are forthcoming from Grove Press.
Mary Jo Salter’s eighth book of poems, “The Surveyors,” will be published by Knopf in 2017. She is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.
John Sesgo lives in Madrid. This is his first published story.
Michael Shewmaker is the recent winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and author of Penumbra (forthcoming from Ohio University Press). He is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.
A. E. Stallings’s most recent collection is Olives (2012). She is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow and lives in Athens, Greece.
John Jeremiah Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a writer for the New York Times Magazine and an editor at the Paris Review.
Christian Wiman’s selected poems, Hammer is the Prayer, is just out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the 2016 winner of the Aiken Taylor Prize in Modern Poetry. [End Page iii]
