CONTRIBUTORS

1 8 5 R C O N T R I B U T O R S KAYLA ALLEN is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana and a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She is currently working on a novel based on her years as a child evangelist ventriloquist. JACK ANDERSON has published ten books of poetry and writes on dance for the New York Times, The Dancing Times of London , and online at www.nytheatre-wire .com.Hismostrecentcollectionofpoemsis Getting Lost in a City Like This (Hanging Loose Press). Among his works on dance are Ballet and Modern Dance: A Concise History (Princeton Books) and Art Without Boundaries: The World of Modern Dance (University of Iowa Press). RANDY BLASING is,mostrecently,theauthor of Sweet Crude (Persea, 2013), his eighth book of poems, and the co-translator of Letters to Taranta-Babu (Copper Beech, 2013), his ninth book of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet’s poetry. He lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. He has published widely in the field of American literature and was general editor of the sixvolume Robert Penn Warren Correspondence Project. PAULA MARANTZ COHEN is Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University, and author of many books, including the novel Getting a Life Without Leaving Home. She is host of The Drexel InterView, a television talk show out of Philadelphia. HENRI COLE’s ninth book, Nothing to Declare , is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux this spring. He has received many awards, including the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Jackson Poetry Prize. JIM DANIELS is Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon, where he teaches creative writing and screenwriting. Recent books include Birth Marks (2103) and Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry (2011), poetry; and Eight Mile High (2014) and Trigger Man (2011), short fiction. ABIGAIL DEUTSCH’s criticism appears in Poetry , the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications , as well as on NPR. In 2013, she won the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. Last year she was a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. IRINA DUMITRESCU is a scholar of medieval literature living in Bonn, Germany. Previous essays on food and culture have appeared in Southwest Review and Petits Propos Culinaires. WILL EAVES is author of three novels, including This Is Paradise; a collection of poetry, Sound Houses; and The Absent Therapist, a volume of experimental fiction . He lives in the U.K. KENNETH GROSS is the author of The Dream of the Moving Statue (1992, rpt. 2006), Shakespeare’s Noise (2001), Shylock Is 1 8 6 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y Shakespeare (2006), and Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life (2011), co-winner of the 2011–2012 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches English at the University of Rochester and is currently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. DOLORES HAYDEN is the author of two poetry collections, American Yard and Nymph, Dun, and Spinner. Her poems appear in recent issues of Poetry, Raritan, Shenandoah , Ecotone, and Architrave, and she has won awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club. She is professor of architecture, urbanism , and American studies at Yale. Her books include The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. H. L. HIX teaches in the philosophy department and the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming. His recent books include a poetry collection, I’m Here to Learn to Dream in Your Language (Etruscan Press, 2015), and an art/ poetry anthology, Ley Lines (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014). 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...