Notes on Contributors
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J. T. BARBARESE's next book of poems, True Does Nothing, is forthcoming this spring along with a translation of selected poems from Jacques Prévert's Paroles.
LAUREN BARBATO's fiction has appeared in Blackbird and Cosmonauts Avenue. She is the author of In Good Faith: Why I Provide Abortions, an interview project for Catholics for Choice, and her nonfiction has also appeared in Cosmopolitan and Ms. magazine. Lauren holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark, where she currently teaches.
THOMAS BECKWITH is a staff writer at The Millions and an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins. He is also the author, under a pen name, of a novel for young readers.
MIKE BROIDA's work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Kenyon Review online, and The Millions, among other places. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2012 and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction from Johns Hopkins.
DANIEL BROWN's poems have appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, Raritan, and other journals. His poetry collections are Taking the Occasion and What More? Brown's criticism has appeared in The Harvard Book Review, The New Criterion, PN Review, and other journals. His Why Bach?: An Audio-Visual Appreciation is available at Amazon.com.
ALEX CIGALE's first full book is Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings (Northwestern World Classics, 2017). He was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation in 2015. His own poems and translations from Russian appear widely. His retranslation of Anna Akhmatova's "Requiem" can be found in the Summer 2016 issue of The Hopkins Review.
MORRI CREECH's fourth collection of poems, Blue Rooms, is forthcoming from Waywiser Press in October. He has had poems recently in Oxford American, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere.
SCOTT DONALDSON has written biographies of several 20th-century American authors, including Winfield Townley Scott, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, Archibald MacLeish, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His most recent book, The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography, deals with his own experiences in the field. He's now at work on a critical analysis of Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. [End Page 342]
NICHOLAS FRIEDMAN is the author of Petty Theft, which won the 2018 New Criterion Poetry Prize. He currently works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University.
Now retired from a career practicing law, JACK L. B. GOHN reviews theater for Broadwayworld.com and writes a column on law and public policy in the Maryland Daily Record. His writings have also appeared in legal and literary academic journals.
RACHEL HADAS's verse translations of Euripides' two Iphigenia plays will be published in June, as will her latest collection of verse, Poems for Camilla. The author of many books of poetry, essays, and translations, Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, where she has taught for many years.
RICHIE HOFMANN is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the author of Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015). A 2014 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars MFA program, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
JEFFERSON HUNTER is The Hopkins Review's film critic and the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. He has recently authored a website, A Word in Your Ear, about unusual English words and phrases (sophia.smith.edu/blog/wordinyourear).
STEPHEN KAMPA is the author of three collections of poetry: Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press, 2011), Bachelor Pad (Waywiser, 2014), and Articulate as Rain (Waywiser, 2018). He teaches poetry at Flagler College.
WILLIAM LOGAN's most recent book of poems was Rift of Light (2017). His book of long essays on familiar poems, Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods (Columbia University Press), will be published this spring.
DAVID MASON was poet laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014. His latest books are Voices, Places: Essays and The Sound: New and Selected Poems, both out in 2018. Other books include Ludlow: A Verse Novel and a memoir, News...
