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  • Contributors

Erin Adair-Hodges is the author of Let’s All Die Happy, winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. In 2017 she was the Claudia Emerson scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, where she wrote “When I Say Jesus Was My Boyfriend.” Erin is the cocreator and curator of the Bad Mouth Reading Series in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is currently a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Toledo.

Simon Armitage lives in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. His most recent collection is The Unaccompanied (Faber & Faber, UK, Knopf, US, 2017), and his medieval translations include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Faber & Faber, UK, Norton, US, 2007). His dramatic reworkings of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have been performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. In 2015 he was appointed Oxford University professor of poetry.

Alexia Arthurs was born and raised in Jamaica, and moved with her family to Brooklyn when she was twelve. She has been published in Small Axe, VQR, Vice, and the Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. “Mermaid River” is part of her debut short story collection, How to Love a Jamaican, forthcoming in July 2018.

Monica Black is Lindsay Young Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “The Minister of Ministrations” is excerpted from her forthcoming book Evil After Nazism: The Demons of Postwar Germany.

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at VQR, and an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College. “The Autobiography of My Novel” is part of his forthcoming collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

Joshua Cohen lives in New York City. “On the Transit of Toledo” is part of his first collection of nonfiction, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, forthcoming from Random House this summer. [End Page i]

Aaron Hauptman is a poet and physician in Massachusetts. He has work recently published in the Hopkins Review, Bellingham Review, and other places.

Kelsey Ann Kerr teaches at the University of Maryland and American University, and holds an MFA from the University of Maryland. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Stirring, New Delta Review, Mezzo Cammin, Cleaver, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net 2017.

Catherine Lacey is the author of The Answers and Nobody Is Ever Missing. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. “Family Physics” is part of her first short story collection, Certain American States, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August 2018.

Christina Wood Martinez is assistant editor at Dorothy, a publishing project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, VQR, the Literary Review, and Puerto del Sol. She lives in St. Louis.

Glyn Maxwell’s recent books of poetry include Pluto and One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems. He lived in Massachusetts and New York between 1995 and 2006 and was poetry editor at the New Republic from 2002 to 2007. He now lives in London and teaches at The Poetry School.

Heather McHugh lives on the Olympic Peninsula. She taught at the University of Washington for thirty years, and continues to take students occasionally through the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Jeff Mock is the author of Ruthless (Three Candles Press, 2010). His poems appear in American Poetry Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Georgia Review, the Iowa Review, New England Review, the North American Review, Shenandoah, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at Southern Connecticut State University.

J. Allyn Rosser’s fourth collection, Mimi’s Trapeze, appeared in 2014 from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her work has been awarded the Morse Prize, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and Poetry’s Bock and Wood prizes, and she has been the recipient of Lannan, Guggenheim, NEA, and Ohio Arts Council fellowships. She...

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