Contributors
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Cover
Front: Palimpsest 2. Monoprint, woodcut; 38.5 × 40.5 in. 2013.
back: Palimpsest 1. Monoprint, woodcut; 62.5 × 70 in. 2013. © Dominique Ellis.
Dominique Ellis is a visual artist and researcher and is currently the gallery and retail coordinator at The Clay Studio. Ellis received her mfa in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art. She was awarded a US Fulbright student scholarship for Egypt as well as an Arabic language grant and was based in Cairo, Egypt. She previously served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, working for the Moroccan Ministry of Handicrafts. Ellis is currently creating new ceramic works at The Clay Studio.
Prose
Alireza Taheri Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator. His translations have appeared in Asymptote, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tripwire, RHINO, and Bat City Review. His fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review and Notre Dame Review among other places. He holds an mfa in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
Brett Beach lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories.
Michael Chaney’s writing appears in such journals as the Minnesota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Fourteen Hills, and DIAGRAM among others. His academic books include Fugitive Vision (Indiana up), Graphic Subjects (Wisconsin up) and Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi. He is an associate professor of English and Chair of African American Studies at Dartmouth College.
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade have published collaborative essays in Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Connotation Press, Green Mountains Review, Nimrod, No Tokens, Passages North, poemmemoirstory, Quarter After Eight, the St. Ann’s Review, and StoryQuarterly. They both teach in the mfa program at Florida International University in Miami. [End Page 176]
Alen Hamza immigrated to the United States from Bosnia-Herzegovina when he was fifteen. He has received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Fence, Narrative, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.
Munib A. Khan grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Connecticut College and Purdue University. He has worked for Banipal and Wasafiri magazines in the UK. He has won fellowships and awards from Toor Cummings Center (CT) and National Society of Arts and Letters (IN), among others. His fiction has been shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is a PhD candidate at Florida State University.
Mimi Schwartz’s books include Good Neighbors, Bad Times— Echoes of My Father’s German Village, Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, and Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction with Sondra Perl. Her short work has appeared in the Missouri Review, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Calyx, the New York Times, Tikkun, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Florida Review, Brevity, the Writer’s Chronicle, and the Writer, among others. She is Professor Emerita in Writing at Richard Stockton University and lives in Prince-town, New Jersey.
Benjamin Soileau is from south Louisiana. His fiction has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Bayou, Eclectica, Gemini, and many other journals. He drives a beer truck in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry
Meena Alexander’s most recent book of poetry is Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press). She is the editor of the forthcoming anthology Name me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing (Yale University Press). Her poetry has been translated and set to music, most recently by the Swedish composer Jan Sandstrom, performed by the Serikon Music group and the Swedish Radio choir. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY. Her new book of poetry, Atmospheric Embroidery is forthcoming from TriQuarterly/Northwestern up. Visit www.meenaalexander.com.
Rosebud Ben-Oni, born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, is a recipient of the 2014 nyfa Fellowship in Poetry and is a CantoMundo Fellow. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective) and an editorial advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her poems appear...
