Notes on Contributors
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LEANN DAVIS ALSPAUGH is managing editor of The Hedgehog Review.
MALACHI BLACK is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Black's recent poems appear in The Believer, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. A 2019 NEA fellow in poetry, Black teaches at the University of San Diego.
DANIEL BROWN's poetry collections are Taking the Occasion (winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize), What More?, and (in manuscript) Poems with Subjects. His Why Bach?: An Audio-Visual Appreciation won the Best Fine Arts Book Award from Digital Book World, and is available at Amazon.
MELVIN E. BROWN was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Columbia University and is a graduate of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He has published two books of poetry, In The First Place and Blue Notes and Blessing Songs. Melvin was the Editor of Chicory Magazine, and a former faculty member of Sojourner Douglass College and Towson University.
STEPHEN DIXON (1936–2019) was the author of Old Friends, Phone Rings, Frog, Interstate and numerous other books. He was twice a finalist for the National Book Award and won honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the O. Henry Awards, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University until his retirement in 2007.
SCOTT DONALDSON is a literary biographer who has written nine life stories of American writers among his 20 books. He is best known for his work on Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
JOEY FRANTZ's poetry and criticism have appeared in The Adirondack Review, The Hopkins Review, and The New Criterion. He lives in Seattle.
MARK HALLIDAY's seventh book of poems, Losers Dream On, appeared in 2018 from the University of Chicago Press. He teaches at Ohio University.
JEFFERSON HUNTER is The Hopkins Review's film critic and the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College. His current project is a critical and comparative study of six directors: F. W. Murnau, Anthony Asquith, Rouben Mamoulian, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Dziga Vertov.
SPENCER HUPP is a poet and critic from Little Rock, Arkansas. He currently serves as an assistant editor with the Sewanee Review.
STEPHEN KAMPA is the author of three volumes of poetry: Cracks in the Invisible, Bachelor Pad, and Articulate as Rain. His work also appeared in Best American Poetry 2018. He teaches at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, FL.
HAILEY LEITHAUSER is the author of Swoop (Graywolf, 2013) and Saint Worm (Able Muse Press, 2019) She has recent or forthcoming work in 32 Poems, AGNI, Cincinnati Review, Plume, and The Yale Review, and is hard at work on a new manuscript of kinda sorta love poems.
WILLIAM LOGAN's most recent books are Rift of Light (poems, 2017) and Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past (essays, 2018). He teaches at the University of Florida.
DORA MALECH is the author of four books of poetry, including the forthcoming Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. She is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
ANDREW NEILSON has contributed poems, essays, and reviews to a number of journals, including The Dark Horse, Stand, The Poetry Review, and the Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish Poems 2017. Born in Edinburgh, Andrew lives and works in London. He is a board member of The Poetry Society in the UK.
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI (1944–2019) received a BFA from The Cooper Union Art School, New York, in 1967. Known for his richly colored and intimately scaled abstract paintings, Nozkowski began exhibiting in group shows in 1973 and made his solo debut in 1979. By 1982, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, had acquired a painting from an early one-person exhibition for their permanent collection. Nozkowski's paintings have been featured in more than 300 museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, including over 70 solo shows...
