Contributors
- Contributors
If You Want Blood. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in. 2017. © Byron Anway.
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Byron Anway is an artist, educator, and musician living and working in Lincoln, NE. Byron earned an mfa from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BA from Luther College. He has taught at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Nebraska Wesleyan University, the International School of Brussels in Belgium, and the American Academy-Casablanca in Morocco. Among other venues, his work has been exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum and the Soo Visual Arts Center and featured in New American Paintings, The West (vol. 126). Visit byronanwayart.com.
Prose
Avital Gad-Cykman is the author of the flash collection Life In, Life Out, published by Matter Press. Her stories have been published in the Literary Review, Ambit, Calyx, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, Prism International, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. They have also been anthologized in Norton's International Flash Fiction, Sex for America, Politically Inspired Fiction, Stumbling and Raging, The Flash, and The Best of Gigantic. Her work won the Margaret Atwood Society Magazine Prize, was placed first in the Hawthorne Citation Short Story Contest, and was a finalist for the Iowa Fiction Award for story collections twice. She lives in Brazil.
Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark's work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Post, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Nimrod awards issue, and elsewhere. She teaches at uc Berkeley Extension and is a 2017–18 Steinbeck fellow at San Jose State University. Previously, she was a Poe/Faulkner fellow at the University of Virginia, where she received her mfa. She is currently working on a story collection and a novel. Visit www.kinderclark.com.
Sean Prentiss is the award-winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, a memoir about Edward Abbey and the search for home. Finding Abbey won the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography. It was also a Vermont Book Award [End Page 191] and Colorado Book Award finalist. Prentiss is the co-author of the environmental writing textbook Environmental and Nature Writing: A Craft Guide and Anthology and the co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, a creative nonfiction craft anthology. He and his family live on a small lake in northern Vermont and he teaches at Norwich University and in the mfa program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of the poetry collection Chord Box (u of Arkansas p, 2013) and finalist for the Miller Williams Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems and essays appear in the Missouri Review, Boston Review, FIELD, Washington Square, Rumpus, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. A former Kenyon Review fellow, she is currently the Murphy Visiting Fellow in English and Creative Writing at Hendrix College.
Melissa R. Sipin, nicknamed ''small but terrible'' by her lola, was born and raised in Carson, ca. She coedited Kuwento: Lost Things (Carayan Press) and is editor in chief of TAYO Literary Magazine. Her work is in Guernica, Salon, Black Warrior Review, and PEN American Center, among others. Her fiction has won Glimmer Train's Fiction Open and the Washington Square Review's Flash Fiction Prize, as well as scholarships or fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers, Kundiman, VONA/Voices Writers' Workshop, Squaw Valley's Community of Writers, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Visit www.msipin.com.
Rachel Toliver has work published or forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Creative Nonfiction, West Branch, TriQuarterly, Puerto Del Sol, American Literary Review, Chattahoochee Review, New Republic, and Brevity. A winner of the 2017 awp Intro Journals Project, she is an mfa student in nonfiction at Ohio State University.
Poetry
Erin Adair-Hodges is the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winner for Let's All Die Happy, to be published as part of the Pitt Poetry Series in fall 2017. A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Poetry and winner of the 2014 Loraine Williams Prize from the Georgia Review, her work can be...
