Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Steve Almond is the author of three story collections, most recently God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2013). None sold especially well. He lives with his family and his anxiety outside Boston.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a German-born Jewish political theorist, who escaped from Europe during the Holocaust and became an American citizen. Among her many books are The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Between Past and Future (1961), and The Life of the Mind (1978).
Gabrielle Bates is a writer and artist from Birmingham, Alabama, currently living in Seattle, where she works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and serves on the editorial boards of the Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Broadsided Press. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Mineral School Artist Residency, and the Richard Hugo House. Her work is published or forthcoming in Poetry, Washington Square, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals.
Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently Theophobia (2012) and All Soul Parts Returned (2017), both published by BOA Editions.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books, 2007) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press, 2012), as well as three Dusie chapbooks, Sorcery (2007), Good Morning! (2011), and The Sound of Music (2015). His bird poems have appeared in such places as Spork, Fence, South Dakota Review, Denver Quarterly, Entropy, Kenyon Review, and Ping-Pong. He's the interim chair of the Adjunct Faculty Union–SEIU at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where for ten years he edited the journal Eleven Eleven.
Marianne Boruch's ninth poetry collection, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (Copper Canyon Press), was cited as a "Most Loved Book of 2016" by the New Yorker. The University of Michigan Press recently brought out her third collection of essays, The Little Death of Self, in its "Poets on Poetry" series.
Maud Casey is the author of three novels, most recently The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury USA, 2014), and a short story collection, Drastic (William Morrow, 2002). She is the grateful recipient of the Calvino Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. "To Be Undone" is excerpted from The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in January 2018. She lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at the University of Maryland. [End Page 202]
Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press, 2018). She is the recipient of the 2017–2018 Ron Wallace Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a writing fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, scholarships from the Tin House Writers' Workshop and Dickinson House, and prizes from the Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest, Narrative Magazine's 30 Below 30 contest, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in Best New Poets, Ploughshares, Tin House, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, West Branch, Narrative, the Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Yoon Choi is a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a 2017 recipient of a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University. Her work has most recently been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and Chicago Quarterly Review. She lives with her four children and her husband in Anaheim, California.
Jane Davies is a full-time artist working in painting, collage, and encaustic. She offers workshops nationwide, focusing on a personal and playful approach to art making. A graduate of Bennington College, Davies attended the School for American Crafts and was awarded a 2015 residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Davies's newest book is Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language.
Geri Doran is the author of two books of poetry, Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011) and Resin (Louisiana State University Press, 2005). A new collection, Blue Marble, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her honors include the Walt Whitman Award, a Stegner Fellowship, an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and residencies from the James Merrill House, Lighthouse Works, and Maison Dora Maar. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon.
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