Contributors
- Contributors
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Chrysanthemum, 2016, watercolor and ink on paper, 66 x 84 in. © Cathy Lu
Cathy Lu manipulates traditional Chinese art objects and symbols as a way to deconstruct assumptions about Asian American identity and cultural authenticity. By creating ceramic based sculptures and largescale installations, she explores what it means to be both Asian and American, while not being entirely accepted as either. Unpacking how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of the larger American identity is central to her work.
Prose
Jonathan Callard writes, lives, and sings in Pittsburgh, PA. His work has appeared in Image, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, PublicSource, Pittsburgh Magazine, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and The Witness, among others, and has earned fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He's working on a nonfiction project about decomposition—in landscape, in body, in relationship—and how it can lead to healing, revelation, and renewal.
Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You (The Ohio State University Press 2019) and This We'll Defend (University of North Carolina Press 2019). Other work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. Follow him on Twitter @PaulCrenstorm
Jen Corrigan's prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Slice, Salon, Catapult, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa and is working on a novel. Visit her at www.jen-corrigan.com.
Cyril Dabydeen's recent books include: My Undiscovered Country, God's Spider, My Multi-Ethnic Friends and Other Stories, Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today, Imaginary Origins: New and Selected Poems, and Drums of My Flesh, which received the Guyana Prize for best novel and was nominated for the IMPAC/Dublin Prize. His work has also appeared in over 60 literary magazines, including Poetry, The Critical Quarterly, Wasafiri, the Queen's Quarterly, Canadian Literature, and in the Oxford, Penguin and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse and Fiction. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, he taught writing for many years at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has adjudicated for Canada's Governor General's Award in Poetry and the Neustadt Prize for Literature at the University of Oklahoma. He's included in the Vintage-Penguin Books' release of the Global Anthology, SINGING IN THE DARK, on COVID-19.
Rebecca Gonshak has an mfa in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University and a ba in creative writing from Knox College. Her work has been published in The Account, Alien Magazine, and The Swamp. She is a bookseller in Spokane, WA.
CJ Green's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Image, The Rumpus, and the Zyzzyva blog. An editor at The Mockingbird, he lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Myronn Hardy is the author of, most recently, Radioactive Starlings (Princeton University Press 2017). His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, the Baffler, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine.
John Kinsella is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, plays, and fiction, including, most recently, Insomnia (Picador 2019). Kinsella's awards include the Western Australian Premier's Book Award and the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival as well as fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Kinsella has taught at universities in Australia and at Kenyon College in the United States. Founding editor of the journal Salt in Australia, he serves as international editor at the Kenyon Review.
Katie Keszey lives with her husband on a small farm in northern Vermont. She holds an mfa from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Bowie Rowan is a writer and multimedia artist. Their work has appeared at Joyland, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review, and PANK, among others. Most recently, their audio essay, "How to Survive a Fire," was recognized by the Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize. Currently, they're at work on their first novel.
Matt Tompkins is the author of Odsburg (Ooligan Press 2019), as well as several chapbooks. His short fiction has appeared in the New Haven...
