Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Michael Coppola’s work has appeared in Drunken Boat, the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Denver Quarterly, and the Columbia Review. Michael teaches undergraduate English and humanities and divides his time between New York and Italy.
Stanley Delgado’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, Puerto del Sol, Mud Season Review, and elsewhere. He is finishing his bachelor’s in Los Angeles and will be pursuing his MFA at NYU as a Writers in Public Schools Fellow. He is working on a collection of stories and a novel. He can be reached at stanleydelgado.com.
Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of two books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), both published by the University of Arizona Press. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, and earned her PhD from the University of Denver. She lives in San Francisco.
Vievee Francis is the author of three books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Forest Primeval (NUP, winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award), and her fourth book, The Shared World, is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including POETRY, Best American Poetry, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. She serves as an associate editor of Callaloo and is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth.
Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2022) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages worldwide and won the Gladstone Library Writer in Residence Award 2020. Rachel’s short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Best Small Fictions, Best New Singaporean Short Stories, and elsewhere.
Sonya Larson’s fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Chronicle, Amazon Originals, West Branch, Salamander, Memorious, the Harvard Advocate, Pangyrus, and more. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2020, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and more. She is director of GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace writing conference and an organizer for the Boston Writers of Color group. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and is writing a novel.
Victoria Bosch Murray’s poems have appeared in Booth, Field, Greensboro Review, Salamander, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She has two chapbooks of poems, Prayer for Plum and Sinew (forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks) and On the Hood of Someone Else’s Car (Finishing Line Press, 2010). She teaches in Boston, her heart home.
Janika Oza is a writer based in Toronto. She was the winner of the 2019 Malahat Review Open Season Award in Fiction and has received fellowships from VONA, Tin House, One Story, and the Millay Colony. She is published in The Best Small Fictions 2019 anthology, Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Nay Saysourinho was raised in Quebec and spent several years in Saskatchewan. She has received fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman, One Story, Writers Grotto, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, and Tin House. Her writing has appeared in the Funambulist, the Margins, Kenyon Review Online, the Ploughshares blog, and the Racket Journal. She is currently working on her first novel, a modern fairy tale set in Southeast Asia.
Diane Seuss is the author of five books of poetry, including Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; frank: sonnets is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in March 2021. Seuss is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Lee Sharkey was the author of Walking Backwards (Tupelo, 2016), Calendars of Fire (Tupelo, 2013), and five earlier books of poems, as well as a number of chapbooks. I Will Not Name It Except to Say, a...
