Contributors
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Dante Di Stefano is the author of Love is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016). With María Isabel Alvarez, he is coeditor of the anthology Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America, forthcoming from NYQ Books.
Michael Dickman was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. His latest book, Green Migraine, is out from Copper Canyon Press.
Danielle Evans teaches in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review and A Public Space, and her collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self was published in 2011.
Sidik Fofana received an MFA from NYU and teaches high school in Brooklyn. His first published story, “The Okiedoke,” appeared in the Winter 2017 Sewanee Review.
Ben Fountain lives in Texas. His third book, Beautiful Country Burn Again, will be published next year by Ecco/HarperCollins.
Merrill Joan Gerber, a frequent contributor, has published thirty books, the most recent a memoir, Beauty and the Breast: A Tale of Breast Cancer, Love and Friendship. Her literary archive was sent to Yale’s Beinecke Library in June. [End Page 1]
Donika Kelly is the author of Bestiary (Graywolf 2016), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. She teaches at St. Bonaventure University.
Edgar Kunz is from Massachusetts. A 2017 NEA Fellow and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his poems appear in AGNI, Narrative, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Best New Poets 2015 (edited by Tracy K. Smith) and elsewhere.
Kim McLarin is the author of three novels and the memoir Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood, and Midlife. She teaches at Emerson College.
Nick Paumgarten is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He lives in Manhattan.
Francine Prose’s most recent novel, Mister Monkey, was published by Harper/Harper Collins in 2016. Her other novels include Lovers at The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, Goldengrove, and Blue Angel, a National Book Award finalist.
Richard Russo is the author of nine novels, most recently the best-selling Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic, and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls.
Taije Silverman’s book Houses Are Fields was published in 2009; her poems are in the 2016 and 2017 editions of Best American Poetry.
Louisa Thomas is the author of two books, most recently Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams. She is a contributor to the New Yorker’s website.
Emily Vizzo’s chapbook Giantess is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2018, and her novel is represented by Frances Goldin Literary Agency in New York. She is based in California.
Elizabeth Weld’s work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she is working on a novel.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently One Morning—(Wave Books, 2015), and a novel, The Beginners (Riverhead Books, 2011). She is the editor of Fence, and lives in the Hudson Valley, where she is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany. [End Page 2]
