About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Victoria Blanco is writing a nonfiction book about a Rarámuri community in Chihuahua City, Mexico. Her research among the Rarámuris has been funded by a Fulbright Award and fellowships from the University of Minnesota, where she received her MFA in creative writing. Victoria is from El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and son.
Michael Reid Busk graduated with a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California, where he was a Merit Fellow, Feuchtwanger Fellow, and Town and Gown Scholar. His collection, 69 Breakups, is forthcoming from Lit Fest Press, and his shorter work appears in journals such as The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Gettysburg Review, Fiction International, Witness, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He lives with his wonderful wife and children in South Bend, Indiana.
Justin Lawrence Daugherty is the publisher of Jellyfish Highway Press. He founded Sundog Lit, is the fiction editor at New South, and copilots Cartridge Lit—a lit mag of work inspired by video games—with Joel Hans.
Kate Carroll de Gutes is the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and most recently of a 2016 Lambda Literary Award. You can learn more about Kate and sign up for her critically acclaimed blog, “The Authenticity Experiment,” at katecarrolldegutes.com/contact/signup.
Dànielle Nicole DeVoss took the cover photo with a Samsung Intercept in Lyons, Michigan, in June 2013. [End Page 233]
Karen Gordon is a writer and editor and the founder of www.theselfhealing-coach.com, a website providing tools and support for healing chronic illness through diet and alternative remedies. She is also the founder and president of Karenscape Photography, an award-winning wedding photojournalism studio based in the Napa Valley region. Karen is currently completing her master’s degree in counseling psychology and resides in Sebastopol, California, with her daughter.
Hyewon Jin Grigoni (www.hyewongrigoni.com) is an artist and writer living in Durham, North Carolina.
Penny Guisinger is the author of the book Postcards from Here, published by Vine Leaves Press. In 2015, one of her essays (originally published in Fourth Genre) was named a notable in Best American Essays, and another was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other work has appeared in River Teeth, The Rumpus, Guernica, the Brevity blog, Solstice Literary Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, and multiple anthologies, among other places. She is an assistant editor at Brevity magazine, the founding organizer of Iota: The Conference of Short Prose, and a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
Henry Wei Leung is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of Paradise Hunger (2012), which won the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest. He earned his MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and has been the recipient of Fulbright, Soros, and other fellowships. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such journals as Crab Orchard Review, The Offing, Spillway, and ZYZZYVA. He is currently working toward a PhD at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Patrick Madden is the author of two essay collections, Sublime Physick (2016) and Quotidiana (2010); coeditor of After Montaigne (2015); and curator of the online essay resource www.quotidiana.org.
Brad Modlin is the author of the forthcoming book of poems Everyone at This Party Has Two Names. His nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in River Teeth, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Florida Review, [End Page 234] RHINO, proximitymagazine.org, StoryQuarterly, and others. He holds an MFA in poetry (Bowling Green State) and a PhD in nonfiction (Ohio University).
Jane Molinary, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, is a third-year MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she is currently working on a book-length manuscript about food, culture, and the weather. Her poetry appears in Stepaway Magazine and Harpur Palate.
Laurel Nakanishi, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, received her BA from Lewis and Clark College and MFA from the University of Montana. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Nicaragua, a Richard Hugo memorial scholarship, and a Greta Wrolstad travel award...
