Contributor's Notes

Erin Adair-Hodges is the winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Let's All Die Happy. 'Gbenga Adeoba lives in Nigeria. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Connotation Press, elsewhere lit, and Juked. John Allman's collections of poetry include Loew's Triboro and Lowcountry (both from New Directions), and Algorithims (Quale Press). Beth Bachmann, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, is the author of Do Not Rise (University of Pittsburg Press, 2015). Eli Barrett works as a librarian at an elementary school for the creative arts. This is his first story publication. Poems by Hannah Beresford have been published in The Adroit Journal, The Cimarron Review, The Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. Talia Bloch's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Justin Boening's collection Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last was published by Milkweed Editions as a part of the National Poetry Series (September 2016). Ana Božičević's first book-length collection, Stars of the Night Commute (2009), was Lambda Literary Award finalist, and her second book Rise in the Fall (2013) won a Lambda Literary Award. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, William Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming winner of the National Poetry Series), and Oxyana (winner of a 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship), both forthcoming in 2017. Molly Mc-Cully Brown is the author of The Virginia State Colony For Epilectics and Feebleminded, which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and will be published in 2017 by Persea Books. Stone Lyre: Poems of René Char, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, was published by Tupelo Press. Poems by Tunisian-American poet Leila Chatti have appeared in such publications as Best New Poets, The Rumpus, Tin House, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, and other publications. Lucas Church has work appearing in The Chattahoochee Review, new ohio review, and elsewhere. Dusty Cooper has stories published in Weave Magazine, Berkeley Fiction Review, Bartleby Snopes, and elsewhere. Krishan Coupland, a British writer, won the Manchester Fiction Prize in 2011, and the Bare Fiction Prize in 2016. Elsa Cross is a Mexican poet, essayist, and translator who has published over twenty collections of poetry, and her collected poetry, Poesía competa 1964-2012, was recently published by Fondo de Cultura Económica. Kyle Dargan is the author of five collections of poetry, including Honest Engine (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and Anagnorisis (forthcoming). Jaclyn Dwyer's poetry and fiction have appeared in Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, and Witness, among others. Chris Forhan is the author of three books of poetry and the recent memoir My Father Before Me; he teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis. Aidan Forster is a junior in the creative writing program at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. His poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming Indiana Review, Verse, The Adroit Journal, and other publications. Rebecca Foust is the author of Paradise Drive (Press 53, 2015). Rebecca Gould is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016). Leah Naomi Green is the author of the chapbook The Ones We Have. Dan Haney's work has recently appeared in The Adroit Journal and Ninth Letter. Work by Jessica Hudgins has been published in such journals as Valparaiso Poetry Review and The Journal. Rochelle Hurt is the author of In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City (White Pine, 2014). Vandana Khanna is the author of Afternoon Masala (Co-winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from University of Arkansas Press). Anna Leigh Knowles's poetry has appeared in Indiana Review, The Missouri Review Online, and Thrush Poetry Journal. Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect (The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, 2015) and the chapbook Avalanche Tunnel (Ryga, 2016). Jie Liu is a fiction writer from China and a PhD student at Florida State University...