- Contributors' Notes
Shoshana Akabas teaches writing at Columbia University. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in English and organic chemistry and holds an MFA from Columbia University in fiction and literary translation. Most recently, her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, American Short Fiction, Believer, and Electric Literature.
Daphne Palasi Andreades is a writer from Queens, New York. Her short stories have been featured in Joyland, Kweli Journal, and Encounters. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA fiction program, where she was awarded the 2018 Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She also received fellowships and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, where she won first place for the 2018 Voices of Color Prize, and other institutions. She is at work on a short story collection and several novellas.
Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W. W. Norton, 2016), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the chapbook A Symmetry (Song Cave, 2018). He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, NYFA, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and others. Ari lives and teaches in the Bay Area.
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His latest books are Lake Michigan, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, and The Performance of Becoming Human, recipient of the National Book Award. His latest translation is Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto, which won the 2017 National Translation Award. He teaches at the University of Illinois–Chicago.
Aaron Berry Davis has recently returned to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, after finishing his undergraduate work. This is his first publication. He is working on a collection of stories.
Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, New Jersey, and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior (Noemi Press, 2016). She holds a PhD from the University of Denver and has won fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center, the NEA, and a Lannan Foundation Residency. She helps edit poetry at the Rumpus.
Emily Everett's short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Tin House online, and the Mississippi Review, among others. She is managing editor of the Common magazine. Find her on Twitter @Public_Emily.
Susan Falco is a student in Florida International University's MFA program. She has published in Ploughshares, Gulf Stream, and Gingko Tree Review. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Marwa Helal is the author of Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019). She has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, Cave Canem, and is a 2019–20 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Michaela Jenkins is a PhD student at Emory University. Her work can be found in the Kenyon Review.
Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). New poems appear or are forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Believer, Bennington Review, Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Witness, and elsewhere. An associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives and works in Maryland.
Claire Luchette is a writer from Chicago. Her first novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Indiana Review, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Oregon, she has received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, and Blue Mountain Center.
Philip Metres is the author of Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening, and Sand Opera. He is a two-time recipient of both the NEA Fellowship and the Arab American Book Award.
Loredana Mihani is originally from Albania. She is pursuing a PhD in British Romanticism at the University of Graz in Austria. Her translations of Moikom Zeqo have appeared in Asymptote.
Wayne Miller is the author of four poetry collections, most recently...