Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Kazim Ali’s books include poetry, essay, fiction, translation, and cross-genre work. He is a professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, located in unceded Kumeyaay lands.
Linda Frazee Baker’s translations of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch, and Ödön von Horváth have appeared in the Guardian, Asymptote, Metamorphoses, Web Conjunctions, and the Brooklyn Rail. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Sakura Review, and Drunken Boat. She is assistant editor at No Man’s Land: New German Literature in English Translation.
Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Advantages of Being Evergreen (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State University, 2015). His writing has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Born and raised in Iowa, he has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Lambda, Vermont Studio Center, and University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing, and is currently an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Michael Bogan lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently working on a collection of essays about loneliness. Previous work has appeared in River Teeth, Southwest Review, and others.
Maud Casey is the author of four works of fiction, most recently The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury, 2014), and a nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions (Graywolf, 2018). “The City Itself” is part of an ongoing collaboration with the photographer Laura Larson called The City of Incurable Women.
David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently, Tom Connor’s Gift (Bangtail Press, 2014), and a chapbook of poetry, The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan (Satellite Press, 2016). For eighteen years he was the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which sends groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras. He is currently a part-time instructor at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Jennifer Chang is the author of two books of poems, The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her essays on poetry have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Literary History, the Volta, and in books on Asian American literature and culture and the Harlem Renaissance. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman and teaches at George Washington University and at Bennington College’s MFA in Writing program.
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer, and teacher. They are author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi/Red Hen Press, 2009); recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017; winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry); and how to make black paper sing (speCt! Books, 2019). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2009). They currently teach Creative Writing and Performance at University of Washington-Bothell.
Su Cho received her MA in English Literature and MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. She is managing editor of Cream City Review after serving as editor-in-chief of Indiana Review. She is pursuing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is an Advanced Opportunity Fellow. Her poems are forthcoming and/or found in Poetry, Colorado Review, Pleiades, the Journal, Crab Orchard Review, BOAAT, Thrush Poetry Review, PANK, Sugared Water, and elsewhere. Her essay “Cleaving Translation” was the winner of Sycamore Review’s 2019 Wabash Prize for Creative Nonfiction, selected by Kiese Laymon.
Julia Cohen’s most recent book is a hybrid collection of lyric essays, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014). Her essays and poems appear in journals such as Nat.Brut, the Rumpus, Juked, Jellyfish Review, and BOMB. With Abby Hagler, she runs an interview column at Tarpaulin Sky, so feel free to contact her about your forthcoming books.
Jay Deshpande is the author of Love...
