Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
panteha abareshi is an illustrator and artist making pieces that accurately capture the realities of mental illness, specifically depression and anxiety, and represent struggle, confusion, and strength. She lives with Sickle Cell Beta Zero Thalassemia, a genetic disease that causes her chronic pain, and in 2014, the condition led to her hospitalization. Her artwork focuses primarily on Women of Color because it is vitally important to her to depict WOC with mental illness, WOC who are not driven by romantic or sexual desires, and WOC as subjects in contemporary illustration and art. She lives in Phoenix, AZ.
mhani alaoui is a Casablanca-based writer and anthropologist. Her first novel, Dreams of Maryam Tair, received the Independent Publisher Book Award and the Indiefab Award. Her next novel, Aya Dane, is coming out in fall 2018. She is a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Casablanca School of Architecture.
anne milano appel was awarded the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Awards for Translation–Fiction. She has translated works by Claudio Magris, Primo Levi, Giovanni Arpino, Paolo Giordano, Andrea Canobbio, Roberto Saviano, Giuseppe Catozzella, and numerous others, and has worked with a variety of publishers and editors in the US and UK. Translating professionally since 1996, she is a former library administrator, and has a doctorate in Romance Languages.
ortsion bartana was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. He's a professor who's taught Hebrew literature at various universities in Israel. He's been the chairman of the Hebrew Writers' Association and president of PEN Israel. He has published eleven collections of poetry, five collections of short stories, two novels, four books of criticism, and five books of literary research. His work has been translated into several languages and published in literary magazines and anthologies around the world. He has won the Prime Minister's Award, Bernstein Award, and Brenner Award.
max berwald is a Taipei-based writer from San Diego. His fiction has appeared in Pot-luck, Blackbird, Shanghai Literary Review, Third Point Press, as a part of Tin House's ongoing flash fiction series, and elsewhere.
sarah rose cadorette's nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Meridian and Cultural Survival Quarterly, and won Second Place in the 2017 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. She is working on a book of essays about travel, relationships, the compulsions to know and possess, and international development. She also spends her time perusing "Missed Connections" and writing reviews of the best entries.
claire chambers is a senior lecturer at the University of York, where she teaches literature from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is the author of British Muslim Fictions and Britain Through Muslim Eyes, and a collection of essays titled Rivers of Ink. She co-edited Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora. She is editor (with Rachael Gilmour) of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and series editor (with Shital Pravinchandra) of the Routledge book series Global Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives.
clayton adam clark lives in Saint Louis, where he works as a public health researcher and volunteers for River Styx magazine. His first poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, will be published later this year, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Mid-American Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. He is studying to become a clinical mental health counselor at University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Dave DeRicco lives and writes in western Massachusetts.
pete duval is the author, most recently, of Strange Mercies (Working Titles/Massachusetts Review). His work has won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and the Connecticut Book Award, and he was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award. He lives in Philadelphia. [End Page 379]
rebecca foust's five books of poetry include Paradise Drive. Recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Award, fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee, and The Frost Place, and appointment as poet laureate of Marin County. Foust is the poetry editor of, and writes a weekly column for, Women...
