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  • Notes on Contributors

Although he came from a prominent family, writer, poet, and painter PIERRE BETTENCOURT (1917–2006) was a retiring figure and lifelong outsider artist. He self-published his early works on a family-owned press during the Nazi occupation. He later published Antonin Artaud, Francis Ponge, Henri Michaux, and Jean Dubuffet. In the 1950s and '60s, he was a frequent contributor to the Nouvelle Revue Française, and Gallimard later put out a volume of his selected works. The stories in this issue are from Fresh Fables for an Empty Stomach and were self-published between 1940 and 1962. A translator of Francophone literature and a specialist in graphic novels, EDWARD GAUVIN has received prizes, fellowships, and residencies from PEN America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright program, the Lannan Foundation, and the French Embassy.

PETER COLE's most recent book is Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations.

COLBY COTTON is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he held the Frad Chappell Fellowship in poetry. His work has been published in or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, and Passages North, among other journals. Starting in the autumn of 2018, he will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

BILL GAYTHWAITE is on the staff of the Committee on Asia and the Middle East at Columbia University. His short stories have appeared in or are forthcoming in Grist, Alligator Juniper, The Summerset Review, Lunch Ticket, and Oyster River Pages, as well as the anthologies Mudville Diaries: A Book of Baseball Memories and Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1.

SHEILA KOHLER is the author, most recently, of the novel Dreaming for Freud, based on the Dora case, and the memoir Once We Were Sisters. She lives in New York and teaches at Princeton.

DEBORAH LEVY's novels include Swimming Home and Hot Milk, both of which were short-listed for the Booker Prize. "The Milky Way" is excerpted from her forthcoming memoir The Cost of Living. She lives in London.

NATHANIEL MACKEY is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Blue Fasa; an ongoing prose work, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth and most recent volume is Late Arcade; and two books of criticism, the more recent of which is Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews. He is the editor of the literary magazine Hambone.

REBECCA MILLER is the writer and director of six films and the author of the story collection Personal Velocity and the novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly.

WAYNE MILLER's fourth poetry collection, Post-, won the UNT Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. His co-translation of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Translation Award. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.

CAROL MOLDAW's most recent book is Beauty Refracted. The author of five other books of poetry as well as a novel, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

LESLIE PARRY is the author of the novel Church of Marvels. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

KEVIN PRUFER is the author, most recently, of How He Loved Them. With Martha Collins, he co-edited Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries. He teaches at the University of Houston.

CHARLIE STERCHI's work has appeared in The Southampton Review and The Mondegreen. [End Page 143]

ALYSSA TOWNS is, to a certain extent, a biologist. She currently lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.

WILLIAM WALKER delivered boxes in Midtown Manhattan long enough to qualify for a pension at FedEx. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

WEIKE WANG's first novel, Chemistry, won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. She is a 2018 Whiting Award winner and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among other journals.

KATHERINE WILLIAMS: "Though I have lived in Chicago for over forty years...

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