Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Andrea Barrett is the author of the collections Ship Fever (W.W. Norton, 1996), Servants of the Map (W.W. Norton, 2003), and Archangel (W. W. Norton, 2014), as well as such novels as The Voyage of the Narwhal (W.W. Norton, 1999). She lives in western Massachusetts and teaches at Williams College.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short-story collections, and two essay collections, as well as four literary biographies, including, most recently, The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (St. Martin's Griffin, 2016). His latest book is Dante and the Early Astronomer: Adventure, Science, and a Victorian-Era Woman who Opened the Heavens (Yale University Press, 2019).
Takbum Gyel is one of the most prominent Tibetan authors working today. Since he began his writing career in the 1980s, he has published numerous novels and collections of short fiction. His work has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Japanese, English, German, and French. His many accolades include the Light Rain Prize for Literature, the most prestigious award for Tibetan-language writing.
Nancy K. Mays has published short stories in the Colorado Review, the Mid-American Review, Eclectica, and others. She received an MFA from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She teaches writing in the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
Susan Neville's collection of stories The Town of Whispering Dolls recently won the Catherine Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction from FC2 and will be published in March 2020. Her previous books include Invention of Flight (University of Georgia, 1984), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and essay collections, including Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning (MacMurray & Beck, 2001) and Iconography: A Writer's Meditation (Indiana University Press, 2003). She lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Butler University.
Christopher Peacock is a scholar of Chinese and Tibetan literatures. His translations have appeared in journals including Chinese Literature Today and Pathlight. He is the translator of Tsering Döndrup's The Handsome Monk and Other Stories, published by Columbia University Press in 2019.
Kiley Reid is a graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is forthcoming from Putnam Books in January 2020. She lives in Philadelphia.
Danielle Spencer, PhD, is author of the forthcoming From Diagnosis to Metagnosis: How Retrospective Revelations Unsettle Knowledge, Narrative, and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2020) and co-author of The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in a range of publications including The Lancet, Creative Nonfiction, and The Mathematical Intelligencer. Formerly David Byrne's Art Director, she is faculty and Associate Director of the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Master of Science Program, and is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow. daniellespencer.com
Ian Stansel is the author of the novel The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) and the short-story collection Everybody's Irish (FiveChapters, 2013), a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has appeared in numerous venues, such as Crazyhorse, Joyland, The Cincinnati Review, Poets & Writers. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Houston. He currently directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisville.
Lex Williford has taught at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; the University of Missouri, St. Louis; and the University of Alabama. His book, Macauley's Thumb (University of Iowa Press, 1994), won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; his chapbook, Superman on the Roof (Rose Metal Press, 2016), won the Rose Metal Flash Fiction Chapbook Award. His work appears in numerous national journals. He is coeditor, with Michael Martone, of the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, and he teaches in the bilingual MFA program at The University of Texas at El Paso.
