Contributors’ Notes
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Amanda Bestor-Siegal
Amanda Bestor-Siegal is based in Paris, where she is working on a novel. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Threepenny Review and Salon.
Brian Castner
Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of All the Ways We Kill and Die and the war memoir The Long Walk, which was adapted into an opera and named an Amazon Best Book for 2012. A contributing writer to VICE, he has also published work in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Boston Globe, as well as on National Public Radio. His latest project, a co-edited collection of short stories, is titled The Road Ahead.
Krista Christensen
Krista Christense's essays have appeared or are forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Harpur Palate, Hippocampus, Word Riot, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from Ashland University and has recently completed a memoir, which details her struggle to find peace after sudden hysterectomy at age thirty-two. Find her on Facebook or at kristachristensen.com. [End Page 177]
Reg Darling
Reg Darling lives in Vermont with his wife and cats. When he isn’t writing, he paints and wanders in the woods. He was an outdoor writer of sorts in a previous literary incarnation, but has wandered off into the rest of his life. His essays have been published in Azure, Dark Matter Journal, The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, Hoot, Traditional Bowhunter, Primitive Archer, and Hellbender Journal.
Michael Downs
Michael Downs's books include House of Good Hope (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, and The Greatest Show (Louisiana State University Press), a collection of linked stories featuring the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944. With Jim Hock, he also wrote Hollywood’s Team: Grit, Glamour, and the 1950s Los Angeles Rams (Rare Bird Books).
Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III's books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent book, Dirty Love, published in the fall of 2013, was a New York Times “Notable Book” selection, a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”, a 2013 “Notable Fiction” choice from The Washington Post, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013.” His new novel, Gone So Long, is forthcoming.
Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children. [End Page 178]
E. A. Farro
E. A. Farro is a scientist and artist along the Mississippi River in Minnesota. She has a PhD in geology and has spent a lot of time living in the wilderness. She is working on a novel and a weekly online collaboration, Science Love Letters. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, The Seneca Review, Water~Stone Review, Eckleburg Review, Rumpus, The Normal School, The Bellingham Review, and The Kenyon Review Online. She won a Loft Literary Mentor Series Award in 2010.
Zachary Gerberick
Zachary Gerberick is a MFA candidate in creative writing at Florida State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in electronic media from the University of Cincinnati and enjoys crossing genres with his work, specifically regarding video and writing. He currently resides in Tallahassee, where he enjoys hiking and skateboarding in his free time.
Lauren Hobson
Lauren Hobson is a graduate of Tulane University. She lives, works, and writes in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas Larson
Thomas Larson is a journalist, critic, and memoirist. He is the author of three books: The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” and The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative. A longtime staff writer for the San...
