Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Halvor Aakhus graduated from the University of Florida with an MFA in Creative Writing. His chief mentor was Padgett Powell, and his graduate thesis won the $10,000 Henfield Prize. Halvor has since taught writing at the universities of Pittsburgh and Louisiana, and is currently the G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellow at the University of Missouri, where he also works at The Missouri Review.
Kostas Anagnopoulos is the founder and editor of Insurance Editions. His book Moving Blanket was published in 2010. His newest book is Seven Books. He lives in Queens.
Levi Andalou's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, The Minnesota Review, Lake Effect, Spillway, BOMB, Virga Magazine, The South Carolina Review, Sugar House Review, DIAGRAM, F(r)iction, Cleaver Magazine, Sonora Review, Phoebe, Ruminate, and Pembroke Magazine. A reading of his work was featured on the literary podcast "On the Edge." He graduated from Brown University, where he studied with C. D. Wright, Michael S. Harper, and Ange Mlinko. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more of his work or contact him at LeviAndalou.com.
Bipin Aurora has worked as an economist, an energy analyst, and a systems analyst. A collection of his stories, Notes of a Mediocre Man: Stories of India and America, was recently published by Guernica Editions (Canada). Individual stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, Witness, The Chattahoochee Review, Western Humanities Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Texas Review, New Orleans Review, Confrontation, Grain, and numerous other publications, and are forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review, and Boulevard.
Jack Barrett was a prominent illustrator for the St. Petersburg Times and the Evening Independent for over twenty years. He studied at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and taught figure drawing at St. Petersburg College and the Morean Arts Center. His work has been published extensively, and he is the recipient of many awards and honors including recognition for his remarkable newspaper illustration. He was a prolific artist, exhibited his work throughout the U.S., and is included in many prestigious art collections including Raymond James Financial, St. Petersburg College, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art.
Nathan Beard earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University in 2001 and then worked in galleries and as an art consultant in Denver for seven years. He grew up on a dairy farm in western New York. Prior to his university studies, Nathan lived in Egypt for one year as an exchange student and worked as a cowboy in Wyoming for two years. He currently maintains a studio in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he lives with his wife and six-year-old daughter. He also serves as Curatorial Assistant at Dunedin Fine Art Center, Preparator at Scarfone/Hartley Gallery (University of Tampa), and as preferred installer for ARTicles Art Gallery.
Taylor Bostick is from Alexandria, Virginia, and is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he studied engineering and writing. His fiction has appeared in The Rappahannock Review, CHEAP POP, Hobart, and Natural Bridge. He's currently working on a biography of a world-class athlete you've never heard of.
Stephen Brook was born in London's east end. Following school, he worked as a commercial artist and graphic artist in Fleet Street, London. After his work was shown in an exhibition in the Whitechapple Gallery in London, he began painting full time. He has had two one-man shows in Munich, Germany, and has shown and sold paintings in many galleries in London, Europe, and the U.S.
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review and Poetry Editor of Hobart. Beginning in Fall 2019, she will be Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com.
Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. Her collection of poetry All Heathens will be published by...
