Contributors
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Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. Her short stories and essays have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she teaches in the MFA Program at Saint Mary's College of California.
Steve Almond is the author of eleven books, most recently William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. He lives outside Boston with his wife, his three children, and his anxiety.
Michael Bazzett's fourth collection of poems, The Echo Chamber, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2021. His work has appeared in The Sun, the American Poetry Review, the Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, and Ploughshares, and his verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed 2018), was longlisted for the National Translation Award as well as named one of 2018's ten best books of poetry by the New York Times.
Brock Clarke is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently the novel Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? His stories and essays have been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, One Story, Southern Review, the Believer, Ninth Letter, and the New England Review, and have appeared in the annual Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies and on NPR's Selected Shorts. He lives in Portland, Maine, and is the A. LeRoy Greason Chair of English and Creative Writing at Bowdoin College.
Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart, Abandon Me, and Girlhood, which is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2021. The inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary, her essays have appeared in the Believer, McSweeney's Quarterly, Granta, Tin House, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. [End Page 1]
Richie Hofmann is the author of a collection of poems, Second Empire, and the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. His poems have appeared recently in the New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Believer. A 2017–19 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, he is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
Rebecca Gayle Howell is Poetry Editor for Oxford American and the author of two critically-acclaimed collections, American Purgatory and Render/An Apocalypse. Among her awards are fellowships from United States Artists, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Carson McCullers Center. She lives in the town where she was born, Lexington, Kentucky.
Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium and the full-length collections The Renunciations (forthcoming) and Bestiary, the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World.
Jonathan Levi is the author of the novels A Guide for the Perplexed and Septimania. A founding editor for Granta magazine, Levi has also written political and cultural journalism for the New York Times, The Nation, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He currently lives in Rome.
Lily Meyer is a writer, critic, and translator from Washington, DC. Her work appears in the Atlantic, NPR Books, Public Books, the Sewanee Review, and more, and her translation of Claudia Ulloa Donoso's Little Bird: Stories is forthcoming from Deep Vellum in 2021.
Ange Mlinko's most recent collection of poetry is Distant Mandate (2017). She is a professor of English at the University of Florida.
D. Nurkse's most recent poetry collection is Love in the Last Days (Knopf 2017).
Nick Paumgarten is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He lives in Manhattan.
Joanna Pearson is the author of a short story collection, Every Human Love (Acre Books 2019). New stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Subtropics, and Salamander. [End Page 2]
Claudia Prado is an Argentinean poet and documentary filmmaker. She is the author of three poetry collections: El interior de la ballena (Nusud 2000), which won the third Fondo Nacional de las...
