Contributors

2 1 0 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S JENNIFER ACKER’s novel, The Limits of the World, will be published this year. She is founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Common . Short stories, translations, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Guernica, n+1, Ploughshares, Harper’s, and others. She teaches literature, creative writing, and editing at Amherst College. PETER BALAKIAN is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Ozone Journal , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (2016). He teaches at Colgate University. DAVID BALL is an English poet and translator living in France. EMILY BERNARD istheJulianLindsayGreen and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of a new collection of essays, Black is the Body; Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. She received her BA and Ph.D. in American studies from Yale. RANDY BLASING’s ninth book of poems, A Change of Heart, was published last year. His recent books also include Sweet Crude (poems) and Nazim Hikmet’s Letters to Tranta-Babu (translations). When he isn’t visiting New Mexico or Turkey, he lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. GEOFFREY BROCK is the author of two collections of poems (most recently Voices Bright Flags), the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes from Italian , including Last Dream: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, forthcoming from World Poetry Books. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas , where he edits the Arkansas International . STEPHANIE BURT reviews widely, and is author , among other collections, of Belmont: Poems (Greywolf), and of The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Belknap/Harvard University Press). She is professor of English at Harvard University. JOHN CANADAY’s most recent book, Critical Assembly, is a collection of poems in the voices of the men and women involved in the Manhattan Project. His first book, The Invisible World, won a Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets . He is also the author of a critical study, The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. PETER J. COOLEY’s tenth book, World Without Finishing, was published by Carnegie Mellon Press (2018). He is professor of English at Tulane University and director of its creative writing program. DAVID GALEF is a professor of English and the creative writing director at Montclair State University, as well as the author of over a dozen books. Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook appeared recently from Columbia University Press. BARRY GOLDENSOHN lives in northern Vermont . The Hundred Yard Dash Man (selected poems) was followed by Snake in the Spine, Wolf in the Heart. He is currently at work on his ninth collection of poems. C O N T R I B U T O R S 2 1 1 R JESSICA GREENBAUM is the author of Inventing Di≈culty; The Two Yvonnes (Princeton University Press, 2012), named by Library Journal as a Best Book in Poetry; and Spilled and Gone (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America. BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG is director of creative writing at the University of Hartford. His books include Space Traveler (2014) and Sweet Core Orchard (2009), both from the University of Tampa Press. His new collection, My Husband Would, will be published by the University of Tampa Press this fall. HA SEONG-NAN is an award-winning fiction writer. Her short-story collections Bluebeard ’s First Wife (2018) and Flowers of Mold (forthcoming this season from Open Letter Books, and from which ‘‘The Woman Next Door’’ is excerpted) have, like other work, been published in English translation. She lives in Korea. JODIE HOLLANDER was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her work has been published in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Australia’s Best Poems of 2011, and Australia’s Best Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, is...