CONTRIBUTORS

1 8 7 R C O N T R I B U T O R S DANIELLE CHAPMAN is author of the poetry collection Delinquent Palaces (Northwestern University Press, 2015). Her poems and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, Harvard Review ,Poetry,andTheNewYorkTimes.She teaches at Yale University. ALEXANDER CHEE is author of the novels EdinburghandTheQueenoftheNight.His firstessaycollection,HowtoWriteanAutobiographical Novel: Essays, which includes the selection in this issue, will be published this season by Mariner Books/Houghton MiΔin Harcourt. He teaches fiction writing and the essay at Dartmouth College. ANDY EATON was born in California and raised throughout the United States. He received the 2017 Ploughshares Emerging Writers award in poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Horsethief, and Ploughshares, among others. A pamphlet, Sprung Nocturne , was published by the Lifeboat Press in 2016. AARON FAGAN is the author of two poetry collections, Garage (2007) and Echo Train (2010), both Salt Publishing. A piece of his appears in a forthcoming Spanish documentary , Versogramas, about video poetry. His current manuscript was a finalist for The National Poetry Series. 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. JULIAN GEWIRTZ is a poet and historian. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review , The Nation, The New Republic, and Ploughshares. He is the author of a history of China’s economic reinvention, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists , and the Making of Global China (Harvard University Press, 2017). JOSEPH HARRISON is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Shakespeare ’s Horse (2015). He was a 2009 Guggenheim fellow in poetry. He is currently Senior American Editor for The Waywiser Press. YUNTE HUANG’s Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History, which includes the essay in this issue, will be published this season by Liveright/W. W. Norton. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ALICE KAPLAN’s memoir French Lessons (1993) is appearing in a revised edition from the University of Chicago Press. She serves on the advisory board of the National Book Foundation’s study of the state of translation in the United States. She is John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. PHILLIS LEVIN is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Books, 2016), a finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other volumes include Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press), The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press), May Day, and Mercury (both Penguin). She is 1 8 8 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. She teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York City. J. D. McCLATCHY was editor of The Yale Review from 1991 through 2017. He is a widely published poet (Star Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, Hazmat , Mercury Dressing), essayist, critic, and librettist. The essays reprinted here are from Twenty Questions (Posed by Poems), Columbia University Press, 1998. Sweet Theft: A Poet’s Commonplace Book (Counterpoint) appeared in 2016. He served as Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets from 1996 to 2003, and as presidentoftheAmericanAcademyofArts and Letters; and taught in and was initial director of the creative writing program at Yale University. RICK McKENZIE lives in Florida, where he and Barbara Bartz enjoy snorkeling, canoeing , camping, and just about anything that can be done outdoors. His work has appeared in The Minnetonka Review, Pearl, Mantis, The Round, Wisconsin Review and the anthology Hipology from Broadside Press. LEAH MIRAKHOR’s work has appeared in African American Review, Studies in American Jewish Literature, The Los Angeles Times, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a lecturer in the department of English at Yale University. ROBERT MORGAN is the author of many books of poetry and of fiction. His next collection of poems, Dark Energy, will be published this spring by Penguin. His most recent novel is Chasing...