Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
caio fernando abreu was one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of short fiction of the 1980s and '90s, and the author of twelve story collections set in and published during the military dictatorship and at the height of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil. He has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Prize for Fiction three times. He died of AIDS in Porto Alegre in 1996, at forty-seven.
dana alsamsam is the author of a chapbook, (in)habit, and her poems are published or forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Gigantic Sequins, North American Review, Tinderbox Poetry, Fugue, The Boiler Journal, Salamander, BOOTH, and others. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow in the 2018 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. A Chicago native, she is currently an MFA candidate and a teacher at Emerson College.
yasmin azad was born and raised in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Since moving to the United States in her twenties she has lived in the Boston area, where she worked for many years as a mental health counselor. She is currently working on a memoir, Stay, Daughter, about growing up in a traditional Muslim community that had to confront the challenges of Westernization and modernity. "Food-Wrapping" is an adapted excerpt from that memoir. Another excerpt from the same memoir, "Swimsuit," was published in the Spring 2017 issue of Solstice.
lorraine boissoneault is the author of the narrative nonfiction book The Last Voyageurs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Chicago Book of the Year Award. She works as a journalist in Chicago, writing for Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, Chicago Magazine, Playboy, and others. Her short fiction has also appeared in Literary Laundry.
geoffrey brock is the author of two poetry collections, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes of Italian poetry and prose. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas, where he founded and edits The Arkansas International.
elena karina byrne is the author of three books, including Squander. She is a freelance professor, editor, poetry consultant/moderator for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club. Her publications include the Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Verse, Poetry International, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Black Renaissance Noire, and BOMB. She just completed Voyeur Hour: Meditations on Poetry, Art, & Desire.
teresa cader is the author of three poetry collections, Guests, The Paper Wasp, and History of Hurricanes. Her awards include the Norma Farber First Book Award, The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award, two fellowships from the NEA, and fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Mac-Dowell Colony. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Ploughshares, FIELD, Slate, Harvard Review, Southwest Review, The Atlantic, Plume, and many other publications. Her work has been translated into Polish and Icelandic.
steven cramer is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Clangings. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Atlantic, Paris Review, and Poetry. Recipient of an NEA fellowship, and two fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, he founded and teaches in the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.
jackie craven is the author of the poetry collection Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters and the fiction chapbook Our Lives Became Unmanageable. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Columbia Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, River Styx, and Salamander. [End Page 207]
christy crutchfield is the author of the novel How to Catch a Coyote. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Mississippi Review, Salt Hill Journal, jubilat, and other journals. She recently received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and serves on the editorial staff of Juked. A native of Atlanta, she writes and teaches in western Massachusetts.
jim daniels's recent poetry books include Rowing Inland, Street Calligraphy, and The Middle Ages. In 2017, he edited Challenges to the Dream...
