Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
christopher ayala was a Juniper Fellow in Fiction at the UMass MFA for Poets & Writers and winner of the inaugural James W. Foley Memorial Prize for Fiction. His work appears in Big Big Wednesday. He is at work on a novel and collection of poems.
jesse bertron is a plumber's helper living in Austin, TX. He has an MFA from Vanderbilt University and serves as co-director of poetry at Round Top, an annual poetry festival in Central Texas. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle and Ruminate, among others.
baiba bičole, born in Latvia, left as a refugee during World War II and since 1950 has lived in the United States. A prominent Latvian poet, she was known primarily in the West as an exile poet, her work banned in Latvia during the Soviet regime. She is the author of six collections of poetry and has received major Latvian literary awards.
peter bush's selection and translation of stories, Barcelona Tales, has just been published by OUP, his translation of Leonardo Padura's Grab a Snake by the Tale by Bitter Lemon, and Quim Monzó's Why, Why, Why? by Open Letter.
christine butterworth-mcdermott's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron, The Normal School, River Styx, Southeast Review, and William and Mary Review, among others. She is the author of a chapbook, Tales on Tales: Sestinas; the full-length collection, Woods & Water, Wolves & Women; and the founder and coeditor of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine. A full-length collection about Evelyn Nesbit, Evelyn As, and another chapbook, All Breathing Heartbreak, will be published in 2019.
javier calvo is a literary translator and author from Spain. He has translated the work of J. M. Coetzee, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers and Marlon James, among others. His latest novel is Piel de plata, published by Seix Barral in 2019.
matilde casazola, born in the city of Sucre, is a Bolivian poet, novelist, and songwriter. At the center of her work is a great reverence for the Bolivian landscape and its people. Throughout her oeuvre, Casazola grapples with themes like illness, exile, and the struggle of the laboring class—all woven into a universe of dreamlike magic. Casazola's many titles include Bodies, The Flesh of Dreams, and The Underground Cathedrals.
Palestinian mahmoud darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered "internal refugees" or "present-absent aliens." Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France. Darwish served from 1987 to 1993 on the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, TX.
erri de luca is an Italian novelist, essayist, translator, and poet, winner of the European Prize for Literature, the European Book Prize, the French Prix Femina Étranger, and the German Petrarca-Preis, among other awards. His most recent novels areNatura esposta (Bare Nature) and Il gioca dell'oca (Chutes and Ladders).
lisa dillman is the director of the Honors Program and senior lecturer in Spanish at Emory University. She is coeditor, with Peter Bush, of Spain: A Literary Traveler's Companion and has translated many other novels and scholarly works, including books by Eduardo Halfon, Andrés Barba, Gioconda Belli, Eugenio Cambaceres, Juan Filloy, Juan Eslava Galán, Lorenzo Mediano, and Sabina Berman. In 2016, she won the Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World. [End Page 569]
emily douglas is a writer of fiction and nonfiction and has been a professor for over twenty-five years.
pete duval, author of Rear View: Stories, teaches in Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing and at West Chester University. He lives in Philadelphia...
