Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Dilruba Ahmed's debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press, 2011), won the Bakeless Prize awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared (or will soon appear) in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, New England Review, and Poetry. Her work has also been anthologized in Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016), Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas, 2010), and elsewhere.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is the father of two sons, Micah and Miles. He is the author of the poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era and the memoir A Question of Freedom. Currently, he is an Emerson Fellow at New America.
Jill Bialosky's newest memoir is Poetry Will Save Your Life. She is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently, The Players; three critically acclaimed novels, most recently, The Prize; and a New York Times bestselling memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, O Magazine, Harvard Review, and Paris Review, among others. She coedited with Helen Schulman the anthology, Wanting a Child. She is an executive editor and vice president at W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014 she was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her distinguished contribution to poetry.
Liz Countryman is writer in residence at the University of South Carolina and coeditor of Oversound. Her first collection, A Forest Almost, won the 2016 Subito Press Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry, Boston Review, Offing, AGNI, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Marsha de la O's latest book, Antidote for Night, won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA Editions. She lives in Ventura, California, with her husband, poet and editor Phil Taggart. Together, they edit the literary journal Spillway. [End Page 119]
Joanne Dominique Dwyer studied at the College of Santa Fe where she received a BA in creative writing. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2009. Dwyer is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar Award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Conduit, FIELD, Many Mountains Moving, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and other magazines.
Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean (Grove, 2016), a New York Times Editors' Choice; It's Not Love, It's Just Paris (Grove, 2013), winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida (Grove/Black Cat, 2010), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards. Her stories appear in the Best American Short Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, and elsewhere, and have received numerous awards. A recipient of a 2014 fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, Patricia currently lives in Miami.
Jorie Graham was called by the Poetry Foundation "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 and was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. How To Be Drawn is his most recent collection of poems.
Sylvia Legris's most recent poetry collection is The Hideous Hidden (New Directions, 2016). Her third book, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Poetry, and Conjunctions. The poems published here are from a manuscript titled Garden Physic.
Dana Levin is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Rilke Prize. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in Saint Louis.
Paul Lindholdt is professor of English at Eastern Washington University. He has won awards from the Academy of...
