Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Rob Arnold is cofounder of the online literary journal Memorious and co-editor of Grid Books. His poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in Hyphen, Memorious, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston and works at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency.
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Each fall, she serves as Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University. Find her @bethbachmann.
Anders Carlson-Wee is a 2015 NEA Fellow and author of Dynamite(Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work appears in New England Review, AGNI, Poetry Daily, The Missouri Review, Best New Poets, [End Page 215] Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Narrative magazine, which featured him on their “30 Below 30” list of young writers to watch. Winner of Ninth Letter’s Poetry Award and New Delta Review’s Editors’ Prize, he was runner-up for the 2016 Discovery/ Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently, he’s a 2016 McKnight Fellow.
Roohi Choudhry grew up in Pakistan, southern Africa, and the Middle East and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Normal School, Callaloo, and The Rumpus, among other publications. A 2015-16 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, she holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, and teaches and coaches creative writers. She is working on an essay collection about migration and on a novel set in Durban, South Africa. Learn more at brooklynstani.com.
Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the ShimmyShammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). He won the 2015 Poetry Competition at Columbia Journal, and his recent and upcoming publications include poetry in Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets 2014, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Sixth Finch, Witness, Columbia Poetry Review, Rattle, Mid-American Review, The Greensboro Review, and Poetry Northwest, and creative nonfiction in Boulevard and Colorado Review. He received his MFA from Indiana University and lives in Syracuse, N.Y.
Gerald Costanzo has been a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for forty-seven years. He is the author of, among other collections of poems, Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard (BOA Editions Ltd, 1992) and Great Disguise (Air and Nothingness Press, 2000). Over the years, his poems and articles about poetry have appeared in American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, North American Review, and The Nation. He lives in Mount Lebanon, Pa, and in Nehalem, Oreg.
Jessica Drake-Thomas is a professor and freelance writer based in The Woodlands, Tex. She has a BA from Tulane University and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Her work has been featured in Cactus Heart, The Stockholm Review, SLAB Literary Magazine, East Coast Ink, The Birds We’ve Piled Loosely, Rose Red Review, The Lonely Whale Memoir Anthology, and Words Apart. The Start of Something: The Selected Stories of Stuart Dybek was published by Jonathan Cape/Vintage in fall 2016.
Stuart Dybek is Northwestern University’s Distinguished Writer in Residence.
Beth Ann Fennelly teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants from the NEA, United States Artists, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three poetry books (Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables) and a book of nonfiction (Great with Child), all with W. W. Norton, and she co-authored a novel with her [End Page 216] husband, Tom Franklin, published by HarperCollins. Her forthcoming book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs, will be published by Norton in fall 2017.
Jenny George is a winner of the 2015 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, The Collagist, Crab Orchard Review, and failbetter. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg...
