Contributors
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A Gesture Alone. 2017. Oil and acrylic on panel, 26 x 30 in. © Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith is a painter living in Omaha, ne. Smith earned her mfa from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her ba from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, wa. She has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in Chicago, Kansas City, the Twin Cities, Dallas, Miami and Seattle metros, Iceland, and Santiago, Chile.
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Jekwu Anyaegbuna is a Nigerian writer. He won the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. He won the 2015 fiction fellowship from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing in Bulgaria. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Morland Writing Scholarship. His fiction and poetry have been widely published in many reputable British and American literary journals, including Granta, American Chordata, Transition, The Massachusetts Review, The Lampeter Review, Ambit, Magma, Orbis, Eclectica, and Yuan Yang, among others.
Evanthia Bromiley lives, writes, and teaches in Durango, Colorado. She is the recipient of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Aspen Foundation, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and a Carol Houck Smith scholarship. Her work has appeared in AGNI. She attends Warren Wilson mfa Program for Writers.
Caroline Crew is the author of Pink Museum (Big Lucks), 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. Visit www.caroline-crew.com.
Cyril Dabydeen's books include My Undiscovered Country (Mosaic Press), God's Spider (Peepal Tree), My Multi-Ethnic Friends and Other Stories (Guernica Editions), and the anthology Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today (Mawenzi House). Previous books include: Jogging in Havana (1992), Black Jesus and Other Stories (1996), My Brahmin Days (2000), North of the Equator (2001), and Play a Song Somebody: New and Selected Short Stories (2003). His [End Page 195] novel, Drums of My Flesh, was nominated for the IMPAC/Dublin Prize and won the top Guyana Prize for fiction. Dabydeen's work has appeared in more than sixty literary magazines and anthologies, including the Critical Quarterly, World Literature Today, the Warwick Review, Prism International, Canadian Literature, the Dalhousie Review, and in the Oxford, Penguin, and Heinemann Books of Poetry and Fiction. He's a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1984-87) and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa for many years.
Austyn Gaffney is a recent graduate of the mfa program at the University of Kentucky where she served as Nonfiction Editor for New Limestone Review and received the Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, Misadventures, RANGE, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Visit www.southeast-ern.com.
Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah, where she directs the graduate program in English at Weber State University. Her work has appeared in the Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, American Short Fiction (online), Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and the Rumpus, among other publications. Her debut novel, Borrowed Horses (New Rivers Press), was a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Currently, she reads fiction as part of the editorial team at Barrelhouse. Visit www.sbgriffiths.com.
Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press). She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Phong Nyugen is the author of a novel, The Adventures of Joe Harper, and two story collections: Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History and Memory Sickness.
Erin Slaughter is editor and co-founder of literary journal the Hunger and author of two poetry chapbooks: Elegy for the Body (Slash Pine Press) and GIRLFIRE (dancing girl press). Her first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from New Rivers Press. Her writing appears in Passages North, Cosmonauts Avenue, F(r)iction, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. Originally from north Texas, she is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University.
Vanni Thach was born in Cao Lanh, Vietnam, and raised in Camden, NJ. She holds an ma in literature and an mfa...
