Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Louise Aronson is the author of the story collection A History of the Present Illness (Bloomsbury, 2013) and recipient of the Sonora Review Prize, the New Millennium Writing Award, and three Pushcart nominations. A graduate of Brown University, Harvard Medical School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her essays and stories appear regularly in newspapers and literary and medical journals, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Narrative, Bellevue Literary Review, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet and essayist whose most recent publications are a book of essays, poems, and fragments, Of Silence and Song (Milkweed, 2017), and Gentlessness (Tupelo, 2015). He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University.
Rosaleen Bertolino's stories have recently appeared in the Capra Review, Gravel, Euphony, West Marin Review, and many others. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she lives in Mexico.
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) was an influential French novelist, poet, and literary critic. He was credited with "discovering" Stendhal and Baudelaire and introducing Freud's work to his contemporaries, and was a friend and admirer of Henry James. Though not well-known today, his Essais de psychologie contemporaine (1883–85) continue to provide a unique and illuminating perspective on the writings of such authors as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dumas fils, the Goncourt brothers, and Turgenev.
Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His work appears in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and Missouri Review, which awarded him its 2013 Editor's Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film, Riding the Highline, received jury awards at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival and the 2016 Arizona International Film Festival. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
Victoria Chang's fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in the fall of 2017. The Boss (McSweeney's, 2013) won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her other [End Page 183] books are Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. She lives in Southern California and teaches at Chapman University and Orange County School of the Arts.
Krystyna Dąbrowska is a poet, translator, and essayist. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Biuro podróży [Travel Agency] (2006), Białe krzesła [White Chairs] (2012), and Czas i przesłona [Time and Aperture] (2014). For Białe krzesła, she won both the Kościelski Award and the Wisława Szymborska Award. Her poems have been translated into English, German, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Greek, French, and Portuguese. Her translations include poems of William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Thom Gunn, and Charles Simic. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Sabra Field moved to Vermont in 1967, part of a migration by independent artists. There she met Spencer Field, a wildlife artist, who became her business manager and husband of thirty-nine years until his death in 2010. She has been celebrated with awards, commissions, and an honorary PhD, and recognized internationally for her printmaking. "The Sabra Field Collection," her complete body of work, is permanently housed at the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Landon Godfrey, recipient of a 2017 NEA Literature Fellowship, is the author of Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown (Cider Press Review, 2011), selected by David St. John for the Cider Press Book Award. She is also the author of two limited-edition letterpress chapbooks, In the Stone (funded by a Regional Artist Project Grant, 2013) and Spaceship (Somnambulist Tango Press, 2014).
Stefany Anne Golberg is a writer and multimedia artist. "The Hour of the Wolf" is part of her book manuscript, My Morningless Mornings. Golberg currently lives in Detroit where she is working on her life...
