Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Amanda Auerbach is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Conjunctions (online), and Thrush Poetry Journal.
Patrizio Ceccagnoli is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. In collaboration with Susan Stewart, he has translated two books of Milo De Angelis’s poetry, Theme of Farewell and After-Poems, published together with the University of Chicago Press in 2013. This translation was nominated for the American Literary Translators Association Annual Award in 2014. He is the managing editor of Italian Poetry Review.
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is Barbie Chang, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. Other books are The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013), Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008), and Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and lives in Southern California.
Milo De Angelis was born in 1951 in Milan where he teaches in a high-security prison. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, which have been translated into many different languages. He is the author of a surreal lyrical novella (La corsa dei mantelli, 1979) and a collection of essays (Poesia e destino, 1982). His complete poetry spanning from 1969 to 2015, was published in 2017 by Mondadori, Milan (Tutte le poesie).
Anjanette Delgado is the author of two novels. The Heartbreak Pill (Simon & Schuster, 2008) was a first-prize winner of the International Latino Book Award, and The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho (Kensington Publishing, 2014) was an INDIEFAB finalist for Best Multicultural Book of the Year. She was born in Puerto Rico and lives in Miami, Florida.
Peter Everwine’s most recent book is Listening Long and Late (University of Pittsburgh, 2013). He has received fellowships from the NFA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Kimiko Hahn’s latest book, Brain Fever, is prompted by rarified fields of science. She is working on a new collection of zuihitsu, of which this fictionalized journal is a part. Hahn teaches in the Queens College/CUNY MFA program and is president of the board of the Poetry Society of America.
Charles Johnson, University of Washington–Seattle professor emeritus and the author of twenty-three books, is a novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary scholar, short-story writer, cartoonist and illustrator, an author of children’s literature, and a screen-and-teleplay writer. A MacArthur Fellow, Johnson has received a 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, a 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage, a 1985 Writers Guild Award for his PBS teleplay “Booker,” the 2016 W.E.B. Du Bois Award at the National Black Writers Conference, and many other awards. The Charles Johnson Society at the American Literature Association was founded in 2003. In November 2016, Pegasus Theater in Chicago debuted its play adaptation of Middle Passage, titled “Rutherford’s Travels.” Dr. Johnson’s most recent publications are The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling, and his fourth short-story collection, Night Hawks.
Rodger Kamenetz’s eleven books of poetry and prose include The History of Last Night’s Dream (Harper, 2007), The Jew in the Lotus (Harper, 1994), The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern, 2003), To Die Next To You (Six Gallery, 2013). He won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. He is professor emeritus of English and Religious Studies at LSU where he was founding director of the MFA program. He lives in New Orleans where he teaches Natural Dreamwork. More information at www.kamenetz.com and www.thenaturaldream.com.
Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the trust of Amy Lowell. She teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Montana.
Jeffrey Meyers has recently published Remembering Iris Murdoch in 2013, Thomas Mann’s Artist-Heroes in 2014, Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery...
