CONTRIBUTORS

1 9 3 R C O N T R I B U T O R S GEORGE BRADLEY edited The Yale Younger Poets Anthology and is the author of five books of poetry, most recently A Few of Her Secrets (Waywiser). CHRISTOPHER BRAM is the author of nine novels, including one that became the movie Gods and Monsters. His most recent book is The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and Nonfiction. He lives in New York City and teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. CHRISTOPHER CHILDERS lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, AGNI, The New Criterion , Parnassus, and elsewhere. As translator he is working on a volume of Greek and Latin lyric poetry from Archilochus to Martial for Penguin Classics. 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. PETER FILKINS is the author of four books of poems, most recently The View We’re Granted. He is currently at work on a biography of H.G. Adler, and his translation of Adler’s novel The Wall recently appeared from Random House. He is Richard B. Fisher Chair in Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. DAVID GALEF is professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University. His most recent work includes the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books) and the collection Kanji Poems (Word Press). Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook is forthcoming from Columbia University Press this fall. IAN GANASSI’s poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Interim, Blackbox Manifold (U.K.), Mad Hatter Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. The poetry collection Mean Numbers will appear from China Grove Press this fall. FLORIAN GARGAILLO is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, working on contemporary poetry and public rhetoric. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Literary Imagination, and PN Review. DEBORA GREGER’s most recent book of poems, By Herself, was published by Penguin . She is poet-in-residence at the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. LANGDON HAMMER, Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale and department chair, is author of James Merrill: Life and Art (Knopf, 2015), and Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism (Princeton University Press). CLIVE JAMES, journalist, broadcaster, translator , and critic, is author of the autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs and the study Cultural Amnesia. Recent work includes the essay collection Poetry Notebooks : 2006–2014 and Sentenced to Life, Picador (U.K.). 1 9 4 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y JUSTIN JANNISE studied poetry at Yale and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in North American Review and Zocalo Public Square. He lives in Houston. EDMUND KEELEY is author of eight novels, most recently The Megabuilders of Queenston Park. His latest translation (in collaboration with Karen Emmerich) of Modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos: Diaries of Exile, received the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He taught English, creative writing, and Hellenic studies at Princeton for forty years. GWYNETH LEWIS wastheinauguralNational Poet of Wales in 2005–06. An awardwinning poet in both Welsh and English, she wrote the iconic words that appear as six-foot-high stained-glass windows on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardi√, where she lives. Her two memoirs are Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression and Two in a Boat (both HarperCollins). EDISON MIYAWAKI teaches neurology and psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He practices at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and divides his time between Massachusetts and Kansas City, Missouri. His recent book, What to Read on Love, not Sex, reappraises Sigmund Freud’s psychology of love in science-dominated times. JOYCE CAROL OATES is author of over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novels include them, Black Water, What I Lived For...