Notes on Contributors
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KELSEY L. BENNETT is the recipient of a two year National Endowment for the Humanities grant and an alumna of St. John’s College. She publishes in journals such as New England Review, The New Criterion, and Colorado Review and is a regular contributor to the Ploughshares blog. Her book of literary criticism, Principle & Propensity, appeared with the University of South Carolina Press in 2014.
HALEY CRIGGER is a writer from Florence, Kentucky. She is an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins University.
PAUL DEAN is a freelance critic living in Oxford, U.K. He is a Founding Fellow of the English Association and a regular contributor to The New Criterion.
CARL DENNIS is the author of 13 books of poetry, including Practical Gods (2002), New and Selected Poems (1974–2004), Callings (2010), and Night School (2018). A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he taught for many years in the English Department of the State University of New York, and in the writing program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He lives in Buffalo, New York.
MIKE DICENZO is a writer living in New York. He has written and produced for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as The Onion.
DENIS DONOGHUE is Emeritus University Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Metaphor (Harvard, 2014), and he is currently writing a book on the question of taste.
JOHN FOY’s most recent book, Night Vision (St. Augustine’s Press, 2016), was selected by Adam Kirsch as winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2018 Poets’ Prize. His poems have appeared widely in journals and online. He lives and works in New York.
TOM GOLDENBERG is a painter who lives and works in Sharon, Connecticut.
JASON GURIEL is the author of several collections of poems and a book of essays. His writing has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Poetry, and other magazines. He lives in Toronto.
JESSAMYN HOPE’s debut novel Safekeeping won the J.I. Segal Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Ribalow Prize. Honors for her short memoirs—originally published in Ploughshares, Prism International, and other magazines—include two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions and selection for Best Canadian Essays.
RALPH HUBBELL’s essays and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House’s Open Bar, Asymptote Online, The Bosphorus Review of Books, K1N, and Today’s Zaman.
KATHLEEN HULL’s work is forthcoming in Storm Cellar and Literary Matters and has appeared on the websites of First Things and the Fairy Tale Review. She lives in Baltimore.
JEFFERSON HUNTER is The Hopkins Review’s film critic and the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. His current project is a critical and comparative study of six directors: F. W. Murnau, Anthony Asquith, Rouben Mamoulian, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Dziga Vertov.
MUZZAFER KALE has published 12 books of poetry and, most recently, two books of short fiction, Güneş Sepeti and Sabahın Bir Devamı Vardı. He is the recipient of the 2015 Sait Faik Abasıyanık Story Prize, Turkey’s most prestigious short story award. He lives in Bodrum, Turkey.
JAMES MAGRUDER has published three books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me See It, and Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall), written the books for two Broadway musicals (Triumph of Love and Head Over Heels) and teaches at Swarthmore College and the Yale School of Drama.
CHARLOTTE PENCE’s first book of poems, Many Small Fires (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), received an INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews. The book explores her father’s chronic homelessness while simultaneously detailing the physiological changes that enabled humans to form cities, communities, and households. She is also the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks and the editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have recently been published in Harvard Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and Brevity. In 2020, her next poetry collection titled Code will be published by Black Lawrence Press...
