Contributors
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Cover
Breeze Play (detail). Digital print on Japanese paper, collage, 2011. © Trudie Teijink
Born and raised in the Netherlands, artist Trudie Teijink finds the subject matter of the 17th century Dutch Vanitas still lifes deeply rooted in her cultural baggage. Formation and decay, the confrontation with the conflict between our everyday activities, and the fleetingness of our existence form a constant undercurrent in her work. For her investigation she uses photographs digitally printed on Japanese paper, traditional prints, and drawings. Teijink earned her BFA at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, the Netherlands, and received her MFA at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is included in the Thomas P. Coleman Collection at the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, and the Lilli M. Kleven Print Collection, Bemidji State University, MN. Teijink teaches art and studio classes in higher education. Visit www.trudieteijink.com.
Prose
David Crouse is author of The Man Back There (Sarabande Books), winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and Copy Cats (U of Georgia P), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize in Short Fiction. "I'm Here" is the title story of his recently completed third collection of short fiction.
Kerry Cullen's fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, One Teen Story, Monkeybicycle, and Hobart. She is an editorial assistant at Henry Holt and earned her mfa at Columbia University. She lives in New York.
Michael Fessler is an American writer living in Japan. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He has published a volume of haiku (The Sweet Potato Sutra) and a textbook (Design and Discuss).
Rigoberto González is the author of seventeen books, most recently the poetry chapbook Our Lady of the Crossword. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Guggenheim, nea, and usa Rolón fellowships, and a Lambda Literary Award. He is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark and the recipient of the 2015 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. [End Page 184]
Elise Juska's novel The Blessings was released in 2014 and selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including the Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, Hudson Review, and Ploughshares, which awarded her the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. She teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Jay Merill is the author of two short-story collections—God of the Pigeons (Salt, 2010) and Astral Bodies (Salt, 2007)—and has been nominated for the Frank O'Connor Award and the Edge Hill Prize. Her story "As Birds Fly" won the Salt Short Story Prize and is included in the Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013. She is now working on a third collection. Jay has an award from Arts Council England and is writer-in-residence at Women in Publishing. Her recent stories have appeared or are forthcoming in 3:AM Magazine, Corium Magazine, the Galway Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, the Prague Revue, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Wigleaf, among others.
Achy Obejas, born in Havana, Cuba, has written fiction, poetry, and journalism. She is the author of five books, including three novels: Days of Awe, Memory Mambo, and Ruins. Also a translator, her work includes Spanish-language versions of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her and translations of other contemporary Latin American writers including Rita Indiana, F. G. Haghenbeck, and Wendy Guerra. She is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowship, a team Pulitzer Prize for the series "Gateway to Gridlock" while at the Chicago Tribune, a nea Fellowship in poetry, the Studs Terkel Journalism Award, a Cintas Foundation Fellowship and a 2014 usa Ford Fellowship. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California, where, in 2016, she will begin codirecting Mills's new Low-Residency mfa in Translation.
Shruti Swamy lives and writes in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Her work has been published in Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony...
