CONTRIBUTORS

2 0 4 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S MARTIN AITKEN is a translator of Scandinavian literature. His English translation of Hanne Ørstavik’s novel Love is being published this year by Archipelago Books. DAVID BAKER’s recent books include Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015) and Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Michigan, 2014). His upcoming collection is Swift: New and Selected Poems (Norton). He teaches at Denison University and is poetry editor for Kenyon Review. STEVE BARBARO’s poems have appeared in The Common, New American Writing, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, and Denver Quarterly. He currently lives near Chicago , where he is finishing a novel. JANE COSTLOW teaches environmental humanities and Russian literature at Bates College. Recent publications include a book on the Russian forest in literature and art, and several essays on the role of holy springs in contemporary Russia. CHAD DAVIDSON’s most recent collection of poems is From the Fire Hills (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Five Points, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and others. He is professor of literature and creative writing at the University of West Georgia and co-directs Convivio , a summer writing conference in Postignano, Italy. GERI DORAN is the author of two books of poetry, Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011) and Resin (Louisiana State University Press, 2005), which received the Walt Whitman Award. A new collection, Blue Marble, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2019. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon. DEWEY FAULKNER has taught at Yale and at the University of San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper, television , and radio as a music critic. MARTA FIGLEROWICZ is author of Flat Protagonists : A Theory of Novel Character (Oxford) and Spaces of Feeling: A√ect and Awareness in Modernist Literature (Cornell ). She writes literary and cultural criticism for publications such as n+1, Jacobin, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Post45 (Contemporaries), MAKE Literary Magazine , and Boston Review. She teaches in the department of comparative literature at Yale. MARY GORDON’s many books include novels, memoir, and literary criticism. She is a recipient of the Award for Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel is There the Heart Lies (Pantheon , 2017). She is the Millicent C. McIntoshProfessorofEnglishatBarnardCollege . RACHEL KUSHNER is author of the novels Telex from Cuba (2008) and The Flamethrowers (2013), both from Scribner and both finalists for the National Book Award. Her new novel, The Mars Room, will be published this spring. LI-YOUNG LEE’s collection The Undressing: Poems will be published this year by W. W. Norton. C O N T R I B U T O R S 2 0 5 R SETH LERER is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. His Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008) won the National Book Critics CircleAwardandtheTrumanCapotePrize in Criticism. Since then, he has published a memoir, Prospero’s Son (2013), and Tradition : A Feeling for the Literary Past (2016). His most recent book, Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage, will appear this autumn. LIDA MAXWELL teaches at Trinity College, Hartford, and is visiting professor of political science at Boston University. She is currently finishing a book on Chelsea Manning and the politics of truth-telling. Recent work includes the article ‘‘Queer/ Love/Bird/Extinction: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a Work of Love’’ (Political Theory). SHANE McCRAE is author of several poetry collections, including Mule (2011), Blood (2013), The Animal Too Big to Kill (2015), and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches in the writing program at Columbia University . OWEN McLEOD makes pottery and lives in Pennsylvania. His poems have recently appeared in Boulevard, Field, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. DINA NAYERI’s second novel, Refuge, was published last July by Riverhead Books. She is the winner of an O. Henry Prize and an NEA literature grant. Her work has recently appeared in The Guardian, The New...