Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Kaveh Akbar founded and edits Divedapper. His poems have appeared most recently in Poetry, Tin House, APR, and Boston Review. He is the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016), and his debut collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2017. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran. He lives and teaches in Florida.
Elvis Bego was born in Bosnia, became a refugee at the age of twelve, and currently lives in Copenhagen. His fiction and essays have appeared in AGNI, the Common, Kenyon Review Online, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
Kelsey L. Bennett’s essays, articles, and reviews appear in the New Criterion, Brontë Studies, Colorado Review, and Notes on Contemporary Literature. She is a recipient of a two-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and the author of Principle & Propensity: Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Bildungsroman (University of South Carolina Press, 2014). She lives with her husband and their two children in Gunnison, Colorado, where she directs the Honors Program and teaches literature at Western State Colorado University.
David Brainard lives in Boston and has an MFA from Boston University. This is his first published story.
Fleda Brown is the author of The Woods Are on Fire: New & Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for twenty-seven years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007.
Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child. She studied art and legal studies and at one point wanted to become a civil rights lawyer, but became a public school teacher instead. Bui lives in Berkeley, California, with her son, her husband, and her mother. Her debut graphic novel, The Best We Could Do, will be published by Abrams in 2017.
Ethan Chatagnier is a graduate of Fresno State University, where he won the Larry Levis Prize in poetry, and of Emerson College, where he earned an MA in Publishing and Writing. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, Five Points, Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Witness, among other places. He lives, writes, and teaches in Fresno, California.
Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) [End Page 188] and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist, an MFA Candidate at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.
Nandini Dhar is the author of the chapbook Lullabies Are Barbed Wire Nations (Two of Cups Press, 2015). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Chattahoochee Review, Grist, Tusculum Review, West Branch, New South, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of the journal Elsewhere. She hails from Kolkata, India, and divides her time between her hometown and Miami, Florida, where she works as an Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University.
Anna Dibble’s paintings have been featured in numerous solo, group, and invitational exhibitions in museums, cultural centers, and galleries. She has been painting, drawing, making sculpture, and writing for over forty-five years. She was a freelance writer, music composer, and co-concept designer for many animated shorts on Sesame Street. She has designed and created sets for opera and theater, taught workshops in Vermont and Maine schools and art organizations, and in the 1980s worked in commercial and independent animation in Los Angeles, including feature films, television specials, and theatrical shorts for Disney, Marvel, Hanna Barbera, Murakami-Wolf, and Don Bluth.
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