Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
tracey physioc brockett studied at the University of Toronto, received a BA from Mount Holyoke College, and continued her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has been in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Cummington Community for the Arts; has received Massachusetts Arts Lottery grants; and was recently awarded the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Artist Grant.
Considered the founder of modern linguistics, noam chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He has written more than one hundred books, his most recent being Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power. He has received many awards, including the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, and the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, gregory conti has lived in Perugia since 1985, where he teaches English at the city's public university. In addition to Paolo Rumiz, he has translated work by Rosetta Loy, Emilio Lussu, Sebastiano Vassalli, and Giuseppe Berto.
fabio deotto is an Italian writer, essayist, and translator. He published his first novel, Condominio R39, in 2014, and contributes to several newspapers and magazines, focusing on politics and the relationship between science and culture. His next novel, Un attimo prima, was published in November 2017.
joanne diaz received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is the author of My Favorite Tyrants and The Lessons, and with Ian Morris, she is the coeditor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. She is an associate professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.
assia djebar (born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, 1936–2015) is among the most significant Algerian writers of the twentieth century. She published her first novel, La soif (The Thirst) at the age of twenty, just after the onset of the Algerian War for Independence and then wrote more than fourteen novels as well as poems, essays, and short stories. In 2005, Djebar became the first North African woman—and the first woman of color—elected to the Academie Française. She received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Yourcenar Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
martín espada's latest collection of poems is called Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Other books of poems include The Trouble Ball, The Republic of Poetry, and Alabanza. He has received the Shelley Memorial Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His book of essays, Zapata's Disciple, was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the State of Arizona. Espada teaches English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
katie farris is the author of Thirteen Intimacies, forthcoming from Fivehundred Places, and boysgirls. She has cotranslated several books of poetry from French, Chinese, and Russian. Her work has appeared in anthologies and Virginia Quarterly Review, Verse, Western Humanities Review, and Massachusetts Review. She is an associate professor in the MFA program at San Diego State University.
robin fasano has written for Spirituality & Health, Ode, and Berkshire Living, among others. She worked in philanthropy and spearheaded cause-driven campaigns for more than fifteen years. She's lived in ten states and traveled throughout the Middle East and Africa. Most recently, she worked and lived in Kabul.
matthew fiander received his MFA from UNC-Greensboro. His work has appeared in the Yalobusha Review, Waccamaw Journal, Exposition Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. He currently teaches English at High Point University in North Carolina.
giorgio fontana is an Italian writer, free-lance journalist, and essayist. He has written seven books and contributes to several newspapers and magazines. His novel Morte di un uomo felice won the Campiello Award in 2014. He writes comics and teaches creative writing at the NABA and Scuola Holden. [End Page 781]
carlos f. grigsby is a poet and a translator. He published the poetry collection Una oscuridad brillando en la claridad que la claridad no logra comprender. He is completing a doctorate in literary translation and Spanish American literature at the University...
