Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Stephen Benz has published two books of travel essays—Guatemalan Journey (University of Texas Press, 1996) and Green Dreams: Travels in Central America (Lonely Planet, 1998). Two of his essays have been selected for The Best American Travel Writing (2003, 2015). Topographies, a new book of essays, will be published by Etruscan Press in 2019. Formerly a writer for Tropic, the Sunday magazine of the Miami Herald, he now teaches professional writing at the University of New Mexico and is working on a book about American travelers in Cuba.
David Biespiel's most recent books include a collection of poems, Republic Café (University of Washington Press, 2019), and a memoir, The Education of a Young Poet (Counterpoint, 2017). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award, he is poet-in-residence at Oregon State University, a core faculty member in the Rainier Writing Workshop, and president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
Noah Bogdonoff is a writer and clinical social work student living in Providence, Rhode Island. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Carve, Passages North, and Catapult. He has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Writing By Writers, and the AWP. He has a degree in Environmental Studies and a cat named Alaska.
Michael Byers has taught at the MFA program of the University of Michigan since 2006. He is the author of the collection of stories The Coast of Good Intentions (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) and two novels, Long for This World (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) and Percival's Planet (Henry Holt, 2010). His stories have been anthologized several times in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories, and his work has received recognition from the Henfield Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Whiting Foundation. His novella, The Broken Man (PS Publishing, UK, 2011), was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award.
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913–1957) was born in Strasbourg, Alsace. During World War II, he joined de Gaulle's Free French Army in London and was a correspondent for Albert Camus's newspaper, Combat. After the war he served as a journalist for the BBC's French Service. He died of a brain tumor in 1957. Most of his poetry was published posthumously. His complete poems were published in the Poésie Gallimard series in 2005. [End Page 197]
Chelsea Dingman's first book, Thaw (University of Georgia Press, 2017), was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of a chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018). Her prizes include Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize, Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize, Water~Stone Review's Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association's Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Her work is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Redivider, and Southern Review, among others. Visit her website at chelseadingman.com.
Emilia Dubicki's work has been exhibited most recently at the Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has received residencies from the I-Park Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She is based in New Haven and shows her work nationally and internationally.
Gavin Yuan Gao is a bilingual poet who graduated with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Bodega, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in Brisbane, Australia.
Benjamin Garcia provides hiv/hcv/std and opioid overdose prevention education to higher risk communities throughout New York's Finger Lakes region. He had the honor of being the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, the 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and winner of the 2018 Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2018, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Gulf Coast. Find him on Twitter at bengarciapoet.
Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, who currently teaches in the...
