Contributors
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Footprints and Shadows. Acrylic on wood panel, 16 x 20 in. 2013. © Leigh Tarentino.
Leigh Tarentino is an artist living in Providence, RI, and an associate professor of visual art at Brown University. Selected recent exhibitions include a two-person show with Nancy Friedman-Sanchez in 2017 at Darger HQ in Omaha, NE, the Faculty Triennial Exhibition at Brown University in 2016, a solo exhibition entitled Artist in Residence Two: Leigh Tarentino at the Art and History Museums–Maitland in 2015, and a two-person exhibition with Martina Lindqvist entitled Illusory Landscapes at Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York in 2014. The Night Hours, a windows installation, was on view in the spring of 2014 at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York City.
Prose
Clara Chow is the author of Dream Storeys (Ethos), a story collection inspired by architects' imaginary buildings. Her short stories have appeared in the Asia Literary Review, Columbia Journal, and Litro UK's #flashfriday, and her journalism appears in the Straits Times and the South China Morning Post. In 2015, she cofounded online literary and art journal WeAreAWebsite.com. Her second book, Modern Myths is forthcoming from Math Paper Press. Visit www.clarachow.weebly.com.
Jennifer De Leon is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (U of Nebraska P) and a 2017 City of Boston Artist in Residence. Her short story, "Home Movie," originally published in the Briar Cliff Review, was chosen as the One City, One Story pick for the 2015 Boston Book Festival. Named the 2015– 2016 Writer-in-Residence by the Associates of the Boston Public Library, De Leon is now an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and a GrubStreet instructor and board member. She also has an active career as a public speaker on issues of diversity, college access, and the power of story. She is working on a YA novel, Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, which received a Walter Dean Meyers grant from We Need Diverse Books. Visit www.jenniferdeleonauthor.com. [End Page 192]
Kate Folk's fiction has appeared in Granta and Conjunctions and is forthcoming in One Story. She's received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center and is a current Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is currently at work on a novel. Visit www.katefolk.com.
Catherine Uroff's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Valparaiso Fiction Review, New Madrid, the Roanoke Review, Prime Number, the Bellevue Literary Review, Red Wheelbarrow, and other publications.
Melissa Fraterrigo is the author of the novel Glory Days and the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies from Shenandoah and the Massachusetts Review to storySouth and Notre Dame Review. She has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train, nominated for Pushcart Awards, and was the winner of the Sam Adams/Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She is founder and executive director of the Lafayette Writers Studio in Lafayette, IN, where she teaches classes on the art and craft of writing. Visit www.melissafraterrigo.com.
John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books, including, most recently, the new volume of poetry Firebreaks: Poems (Norton), a volume of short stories, In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio UP), and Speak from Here to There: A Cycle of Poems with Kwame Dawes (Peepal Tree).
Poetry
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian writer and environmentalist. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Yemassee, Cherry Tree, Gigantic Sequins, and elsewhere. His chapbook is a finalist for the 2017 Hyacinth Girl Press contest.
William Archila earned his mfa in poetry from the University of Oregon. His first collection of poetry, The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press) won an International Latino Book Award. His second book, The Gravedigger's Archaeology (Red Hen Press), won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. He has been published in American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, AGNI, Notre Dame Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and the anthologies Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry, Wide...
