CONTRIBUTORS

1 8 6 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S STEPHEN BURT reviews widely, and is author of Belmont: Poems (Graywolf) and of The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Belknap /Harvard University Press). He is professor of English at Harvard University. MORRI CREECH is author of three books of poems, the most recent of which, The Sleep of Reason, was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He has new work in Southwest Review, Oxford American, Missouri Review , and elsewhere. JEFF DOLVEN teaches poetry and poetics at Princeton University. He is the author of a book of poems, Speculative Music, and two of criticism, Scenes of Instruction and the forthcoming Senses of Style. He is also an editor at large at Cabinet magazine. STEPHEN EDGAR is author of ten books of poetry, the most recent Exhibits of the Sun (Black Pepper, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, as was his previous book, Eldershaw. In 2012 The Red Sea: New and Selected Poems was published in the U.S. by Baskerville Publishers. A new collection , Transparencies (Black Pepper), is due to appear early next year. He lives in Sydney . DEBORAH GARRISON is author of two books of poetry, A Working Girl Can’t Win and The Second Child (both from Random House). She is poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. WILLIAM H. GASS is the author of novels (including The Tunnel and Middle C), short story and novella collections, and essay collections (including A Temple of Texts and Life Sentences), which have won numerous awards. He is David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, where he founded the International Writers Center. MARY STEWART HAMMOND’s new collection of poems, Entering History, is appearing this season from W. W. Norton. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Criterion, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere . She lives in New York City. RICHARD HOWARD is the author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently A Progressive Education from Turtle Point Press, as well as Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963– 2003 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004). He is also a translator, notably of works by Baudelaire and Barthes. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 and a MacArthur Grant in 1996. His criticism is collected in Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965–2003 (FSG). For many years he has taught at Columbia University. GREG JOHNSON’s books include the novels Pagan Babies (Dutton) and Sticky Kisses (Alyson), as well as five collections of short fiction, most recently Women I’ve Known: New and Selected Stories. He is also the author of Invisible Writer: A Biography of C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 8 7 R Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton), as well as a frequent reviewer of fiction, poetry, and literary biography. JEAN ROSS JUSTICE (1924–2016) is author of The End of a Good Party and Other Stories, Family Feeling, and the novel Till My Baby Comes Home, published earlier this year. She was married to poet Donald Justice from 1947 until his death in 2004. For many years she lived in Iowa City. SHEILA KOHLER is the author of many novels , including Cracks, Becoming Jane Eyre, The Bay of Foxes, and Dreaming for Freud (Viking/Penguin). Her stories have been selected for the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories (2013). JAMES LONGENBACH’s fifth book of poems, Earthling, will be published next year by W. W. Norton. His most recent work of criticism is The Virtues of Poetry (Graywolf , 2013). He is the Joseph Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. GERALD MAJER’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many journals including Callaloo, FIELD, Georgia Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, and Vol. 1: Brooklyn. His creative nonfiction book The Velvet Lounge: Essays on Late Chicago Jazz was published by Columbia University Press. He teaches literature and creative writing at Stevenson University near...