Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is the author of the forthcoming Dissolve, and of Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press, 2003). He is of the Bįį'bítóó'nii' Tódi'chii'nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani' clan. He is from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. His honors include the 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a PEN Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Jeanne Borofsky is an internationally recognized artist whose paintings, prints, and drawings are held in numerous museums and private collections. She makes art with watercolors, oils, encaustics, rubber stamps, collages, and prints (traditional, photographic, encaustic, and digital). Represented by Gallery Sitka and Gallery Blink, a member of the Boston Printmakers, the Monotype Guild of New England, and past president of New England Wax, Borofsky has also been a digital imaging specialist and graphic designer. She lives in Massachusetts.
Marianne Boruch's recent work includes a ninth book of poems, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), and a third essay collection about poetry, The Little Death of Self (University of Michigan Press, "Poets on Poetry" series, 2017). She teaches at Purdue University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of four collections of poetry: Names Above Houses (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001), Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), Requiem for the Orchard (University of Akron Press, 2010), and Post Subject: A Fable (University of Akron Press, 2014). He is a co-editor of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2011), and a founding member and co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Alison Hawthorne Deming's most recent books are Stairway to Heaven (Penguin, 2016) and Zoologies (Milkweed Editions, 2014). She is Agnes Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson and on Grand Manan Island. [End Page 174]
Brad Felver's fiction and essays have most recently appeared in One Story, Colorado Review, and Hunger Mountain. He lives with his wife and kids in northern Ohio where he teaches at Bowling Green State University and is hard at work on a novel.
Catherine Gammon is the author of the novels Sorrow (Braddock Avenue Books, 2013) and Isabel Out of the Rain (Mercury House, 1991), and of shorter work that has appeared in many journals. "Invocation" opens a novel based on the Salem witchcraft trials, Nightbirds in an Age of Light. Some descriptive passages in this chapter depend on original sources, in particular accounts given by Deodat Lawson, John Hale, and Cotton Mather, and records of Tituba's testimony during examination. The American Antiquarian Society, Djerassi, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the University of Pittsburgh have contributed to the novel's completion.
Hannah Gersen is the author of Home Field (William Morrow, 2016). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Poets & Writers, and the Millions, where she is a staff writer. She lives in New York City with her family.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of thirteen books of poems, including A Stranger's Mirror (Norton, 2015) and Names (Norton, 2010), an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices (University of Michigan Press, 2010), and numerous translations of French and Francophone poets including Emmanuel Moses, Marie Etienne, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata. She is co-author, with Deema Shehabi, of the collaborative sequence DiaspoRenga (Holland Park Press, 2014). She lives in Paris.
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead (Penguin Books, 2010), Wind in a Box (Penguin Books, 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin Books, 2002), and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). How To Be Drawn (Penguin Books, 2015) is his most recent collection of poems.
Didi Jackson's debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press...
