About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Kristin Barendsen is a Santa Fe–based writer whose work has appeared in The Sun, American Poet, Atticus Review, Nailed, Gravel, and many other venues. Her awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize and two Southwest Writers awards. She is coauthor of Photography: New Mexico and a former contributing editor of Yoga Journal. She studied creative writing at Stanford with Grace Paley and Denise Levertov, and she's a member of Lidia Yuknavitch's Corporeal Writing community. For a selection of her published work, see www.kristinbarendsen.com/creative.
Anne P. Beatty lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, North American Review, and elsewhere.
Carol Claassen's prose has been noted in The Best American Essays 2011, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, nominated for Best of the Net, awarded The Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition Prize, and is published or forthcoming in The Pinch, Normal School, Forge Literary Magazine, 3Elements Review, and Pidgeonholes. She wishes she were finished writing her memoir about her relationship with her father. One day, she will be.
Kate Carroll de Gutes is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear and The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best and Worst Year of My Life. She lives in Iowa City with her wife, the writer Laura Julier.
Ryan Dennis is a former Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing and has taught creative writing at several universities. He is the founder of The Milk House, an online community of rural writing, and is a syndicated columnist for agricultural and rural life magazines. In addition to being published in various literary journals, his first novel, The Beasts They Turned Away, will be published by Epoque Press in March 2021. Currently he is working on a nonfiction book involving family agriculture.
Sean Enfield is a writer from the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He received his BA in English literature from the University of North Texas and is now pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is a member of the Denton collective and Spiderweb Salon, winner of the 2020 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest, and he was featured on NPR's All Things Considered for their Three-Minute Fiction contest. His work is published in a number of online literary journals—all of which can be found at seanenfield.com. Though he has dabbled in a number of genres, he was once chastised for failing to introduce himself as a poet. He has not made that mistake since.
As a social worker, J. Malcolm Garcia worked with homeless people in San Francisco for fourteen years before he made the jump into journalism in 1995. The tragedy of September 11th, 2001, gave him the opportunity to work in Afghanistan. He is a recipient of the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working classes, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. He is the author, most recently, of The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream.
Negesti Kaudo is an essayist and educator from Columbus, Ohio. In 2015, at 22, she became the youngest recipient of the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant. She earned her MFA in creative writing-nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago. She is an alumna of the Ragdale Residency (2019) and Winter Tangerine Workshop (2018 and 2019). Her work is forthcoming or published in Seneca Review, IDK Magazine, Best American Experimental 2020, Wear Your Voice Magazine, NewCity, Cosmonauts Avenue, Nailed Magazine, Mosaic Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. She writes e-tail copy and teaches writing at Columbus College of Art & Design.
Kelly Magee is the author of Body Language, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for short fiction; The Neighborhood, a collection of fairy tales and retellings; and A Guide to Strange Places, as well as several collaborative works of prose and poetry. Her work has appeared in Granta, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Hobart, Crazyhorse, Wigleaf, and many others. She teaches at Western Washington University and can be found at kellyelizabethmagee.com.
Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of...
