Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Andrew Bienen is the co-writer of the Academy Award winning movie, Boys Don’t Cry. He is an associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program, where he teaches screenwriting. He lives in New York City.
Allen Gee is the author of the essay collection My Chinese-America (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2015), and recently completed a novel about the building of the Central Pacific Railroad. Gee is James Alan McPherson’s designated biographer, and currently teaches at Columbus State University, where he is the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing. He recently co-founded 2040 Books, a multicultural imprint, with publisher Andrew Gifford, and serves as Editor for the imprint.
Stephen Henighan has published more than a dozen books, including novels, short story collections, nonfiction, and works of literary criticism. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies, such as Lettre International, The May Anthologies, Best Canadian Stories, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and Prairie Fire, and he has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Canada Prize in the Humanities, a McNally Robinson Fiction Prize, and the Malahat Novella Prize, among others. He teaches Latin American literature at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
Dimiter Kenarov is a freelance journalist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. His articles have appeared in Esquire, The Nation, Foreign Policy, VQR, and the New York Times, among others. He is currently at work on a book about the Bulgarian writer and dissident Georgi Markov (forthcoming, Grove Atlantic).
Owen King is the author of the novel Double Feature (Scribner, 2013) and co-author of the novel Sleeping Beauties (Scribner, 2017). His short fiction has appeared in publications such as One Story, Prairie Schooner, and Subtropics. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Jill McCorkle has the distinction of having published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Of these novels, the New York Times Book Review said: “one suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. With July 7th, she is also a full grown one.” Since then she has published four other novels (her latest, Life After Life, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013) and four collections of short stories. Five of her nine previously published books have been named New York Times notable books. McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and North Carolina State and is core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Billy O’Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, is an Irish Book Award-winning and Costa Award-shortlisted novelist and short story writer. His most recent novel, a ghost story called The Dead House, was published by Arcade/Skyhorse in 2018, and a new novel, My Coney Island Baby, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape (UK) and Harper (US) in early 2019. Recent stories have appeared, or are coming soon, in: AGNI, the Chattahoochee Review, Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Salamander and the Saturday Evening Post.
Josie Sigler Sibara is the author of The Galaxie and Other Rides (Livingston Press, 2012), a collection of stories about growing up in post-industrial Detroit, and a book of poems, living must bury (Fence Books, 2010), which won the Motherwell Prize. Josie completed a PEN Northwest Wilderness Residency, during which she lived for six months on a remote homestead above Rogue River in southern Oregon’s Klamath Mountains. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. The draft of her first novel recently won the James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently the 2017 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction winner What We Do With the Wreckage (forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press in October of 2018). Her previous collections are This Life She’s Chosen and Swimming With Strangers (Chronicle Books, 2006 and 2008). Kirsten’s work has previously appeared journals such as North American Review, One Story, The American Scholar, and Willow Springs, and has twice...
