Contributors
- Contributors
marilyn abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. Her recent essays and stories have appeared in Witness, AGNI, and The Gettysburg Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at Saint Mary's College of California.
michael agresta has published fiction and nonfiction in The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and Conjunctions. He has received residencies from The MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His MFA is from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where he lives.
lindsay remee ahl has work published in The Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, and Barrow Street. She was a Fletcher Pratt Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for her novel, Desire. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
jose a. alcantara has worked as a bookseller, mailman, commercial fisherman, baker, house framer, studio photographer, door-to-door salesman, and math teacher. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Spillway, Rattle, and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent.
wendy barker's sixth collection of poems, One Blackbird at a Time, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. She has also published four chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2013. She teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
jeffrey bean is a professor of English at Central Michigan University. He has published two chapbooks and the poetry collections Woman Putting on Pearls and Diminished Fifth. Recent poems appear in The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, and Poet Lore.
noah blaustein has had poems in the San Francisco Chronicle, Harvard Review, and The Cincinnati Review. After Party, his latest book, is due out from University of [End Page v] New Mexico Press in 2019. He is currently an artist-in-residence with the National Park Service, teaching poetry to youth in the Santa Monica Mountains.
fleda brown has published ten collections of poems. Her work has twice appeared in the Best American Poetry and has won numerous prizes, including a Pushcart. She is a professor emerita at the University of Delaware and former poet laureate of Delaware. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop.
george david clark's first book, Reveille, won the 2015 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. His new work can be found in AGNI, The Georgia Review, and The Hopkins Review. He edits 32 Poems and lives with his wife and their four young children in Washington, Pennsylvania.
matt jones is a graduate of the University of Alabama's MFA program. His prose has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Ruminate, and Post Road Magazine.
siel ju lives in Los Angeles. Her novel in stories, Cake Time, won the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Award. Her stories and poems appear in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review, and Denver Quarterly. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks and holds a PhD from the University of Southern California.
rodger kamenetz's books of poetry include The Lowercase Jew and To Die Next To You. He lives in New Orleans.
holly karapetkova's poetry, prose, and translations of Bulgarian writers have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, and RHINO. Her second book, Towline, won the Vern Rutsala Book Prize.
sarah kennedy is the author of four novels and seven books of poems. A professor of English at Mary Baldwin University, she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
naira kuzmich was born in Armenia and raised in Los Angeles. Her fiction can be found in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 and West Branch, while her nonfiction [End Page vi] has appeared or is forthcoming in Ecotone, The Threepenny Review, and Guernica. Naira passed away from lung cancer in 2017, at the age of twenty-nine.
david lehman's most recent books are Poems in the Manner Of and Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World. He divides his time between New York City and Ithaca, New York.
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