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  • Contributor Notes

Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and five chapbooks, including Security Theater (Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016). His poems can be found in Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies.

Sarah Aronson writes poetry and nonfiction from Missoula, Montana. Her work can be found in the High Desert Journal, Portland Review, and St. Petersburg Review, among others. She is the host of the Montana Public Radio literary program and podcast The Write Question.

Kristin George Bagdanov is a PhD candidate in literature at University of California, Davis. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Fossils in the Making, is forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2019. She is the poetry editor for Ruminate Magazine. kristingeorgebagdanov.com

The recipient of a 2018 Minnesota State Arts Board grant, Erica Berry is a Minneapolis-based writer with essays in True Story, Literary Hub, the Southeast Review, Guernica, Pacific Standard, and the Atlantic, among other publications. www.ericaberry.com

Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) is the author of Dissolve and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). From White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, he is of the Bįį’bítóó’nii’ Tódi’chii’nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani’ clan. The recipient of a 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a pen Open Book Award, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award, Bitsui teaches for the mfa in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

C. Fausto Cabrera is a multi-genre writer incarcerated since 2003. Co-founder of the Stillwater Writers Collective, partnered with Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, his work has appeared on the Missouri Review’s “Literature on Lockdown,” in From the Inside Out: Letters to Young Men and Other Writings, and [Not] The End (forthcoming).

Caylin Capra-Thomas’s second chapbook, Inside My Electric City, is available from YesYes Books. She is the winner of the Baltimore Review’s 2017 Summer Contest and Yemassee’s 2016 Nonfiction Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals including New England Review, Crazyhorse, Willow Springs, the Journal, Salt Hill, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. In 2018, she will be a writer-in-residence at the Studios of Key West as well as at the Vermont Studio Center, where she was awarded a fellowship.

Amy Catanzano is the author of three books, including Starlight in Two-Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella, recipient of the Noemi Press Book Award, and Multiversal, recipient of the pen usa Literary Award in Poetry. She is an associate professor and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Travis Cebula is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including Dangerous Things to Please a Girl and The Sublimation of Frederick Eckert, available now from Black Lawrence Press. He is also a joyful member of the Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris, France.

Brian Clifton coedits Bear Review. He is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas. His work can be found in Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Prairie Schooner, the Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. He is an avid record collector and curator of curiosities.

Kate Colby is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Arrangements (Four Way Books, 2018). She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, and Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, where she is the 2017–18 Creative Fellow. She lives in Providence.

Caroline Crew is the author of Pink Museum (Big Lucks, 2015), as well as several chapbooks. Her poetry and essays appear in the Kenyon Review, Diagram, and Gulf Coast, among others. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Georgia State University, after earning an ma at the University of Oxford and an mfa at UMass Amherst. caroline-crew.com

David Crouse is the author of Copy Cats, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Man Back There, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize. He lives in Seattle with his partner, Lee Whiting, and teaches at the University of Washington.

E. G. Cunningham is the...

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