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217 emily bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. dan chiasson is the author of six books, including The Math Campers (2020). He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker. ama codjoe is the author of the chapbook Blood of the Air and the recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. brianna elatove lives in New York City. She holds a BA from New York University in The Politics of Trauma and Translation. emily fragos is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. Her newest book of poems is Saint Torch (2017). jeffrey gray’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, PN Review, and other journals. He is the author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. richie hofmann is the author of Second Empire (2015). He is cur­ rently Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. cathy park hong’s book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings, was published this spring. briallen hopper is the author of Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions and the co-­ editor of the online magazine Killing the Buddha. She teaches creative nonfiction at Queens College, CUNY. Contributors 218 evan james is the author of Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe: A Novel and I’ve Been Wrong Before: Essays. fady joudah is author of four collections of poems, and several volumes of translations from Arabic. joan naviyuk kane is the author of seven collections of poetry and prose, most recently Another Bright Departure. katie kitamura’s most recent novel is A Separation. laura kolbe practices medicine and teaches at Weill Cornell Hospital in New York. Her work has appeared in American Poetry The New York Review of Books, Poetry, VQR, and elsewhere. yusef komunyakaa’s forthcoming collection Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems 2001-­ 2021 will be published in 2021. He teaches at New York University. victoria kornick is a writer living in Los Angeles. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. dana levin is the author of four books of poems, including Banana Palace (2016). She is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in Saint Louis. kathryn lofton is a professor of religious studies and of American studies at Yale University. andrew martin is the author of Early Work and the story collection Cool For America. laren mcclung is author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain (Sheep Meadow) and editor of Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (W. W. Norton). 219 maya c. popa is the author of American Faith, recipient of the 2020 North American Book Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia. vidyan ravinthiran teaches at Harvard and is the author of Grun-­ tu-­molani and The Million-­ Petalled Flower of Being Here. roger reeves’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcom­ ing from Poetry, The Believer, and Boston Review. He is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Texas at Austin. adriana socoski is a poet, teacher, and musician. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver. lindsay turner is the author of Songs & Ballads and the transla­ tor of several books of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy. david l. ulin is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles. jane wong is the author of Overpour and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (forthcoming). wendy xu’s most recent collection is Phrasis, named one of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. She teaches writing at The New School. Image Credits Cover: Phoebe Helander, Composition, 2018. Crayon on linen, 20” × 21”. Courtesy Phoebe Helander Page 63, Photo of the author with her brother, 1999; Jacqueline Baillargeon Page 104, “Coronaviruses.” Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control Public Health Image Library. Page 181, Wild flowers of Palestine. Bethlehem-star, ca. 1900–1920. Matson photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Acknowledgment The editors of The Yale Review, its writers and its readers, are indebted to the following donors...

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