About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Robert Erle Barham is an English professor at Covenant College, and he lives with his family in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work has appeared in Appalachian Review and River Teeth's "Beautiful Things" series, and it is forthcoming in the Florida Review and the Baltimore Review.
Jane Campbell has an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in publications including Hazlitt, EVENT, Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness (In Fact Books), and Best Canadian Essays 2017 (Tightrope Books).
Joanna Eleftheriou is author of the essay collection This Way Back (West Virginia University Press, 2020). Her essays have appeared in Bellingham Review, Arts and Letters, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America. A contributing editor at Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Joanna teaches at Christopher Newport University in Virginia and the Writing Workshops in Greece.
Cynthia Ezell is a psychotherapist, farmer, and writer. She has been a psychotherapist for 34 years, a farmer since 2004, and a writer since she was eight years old and fell in love with Joyce Kilmer's poem about a tree. Her literary work emerges from the intersection of human relationships and the interdependence between humans and the environment. Her writing reflects an intimate connection with land and place. Her work has appeared in The [End Page 235] Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Wordpeace, the Minnow Literary Magazine, and Deep Wild Journal.
Nicole Graev Lipson's essays have appeared in River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction, the Hudson Review, Hippocampus, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she is working on a collection of essays about motherhood. Read more of her work at www.nicolegraevlipson.com.
Sarah Haak is an essayist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, where she studies literary nonfiction writing and composition studies. She holds a master's degree in creative nonfiction writing from Ohio University. Before taking up writing, she was a chef, a small business owner, and a natural therapeutic specialist with a focus in herbal medicine making. She currently serves as an assistant editor for Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and her work is published in Sonora Review, Essay Daily, the Pinch, Atticus Review, Conceptions Southwest, the Wrath-Bearing Tree, and is forthcoming in other journals. Find her at sarahhaak.com.
Catherine Jagoe is a translator, essayist, and poet who has published eight books and three chapbooks. Her most recent volume is a co-translation, with Jesse Lee Kercheval, of contemporary Uruguayan poetry by Luis Bravo, Voice & Shadow: New & Selected Poems (Lavender Ink, 2020). Her nonfiction was featured in the 2016 Pushcart XL anthology and received notable mention in the 2019 Best American Essays. Her poetry collection Bloodroot won the 2016 American Poetry Prize and the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2016 book award. Her website is www.catherinejagoe.com.
Leslie Jernegan is a self-identified fiction writer who keeps finding herself playing with creative nonfiction too. She's currently teaching writing and literature with a semester-abroad program, chasing college freshmen around the world and, naturally, collecting her share of stories to tell. Her work can also be found in Shenandoah. [End Page 236]
Jody Keisner's essays have appeared in the Normal School, Fourth Genre, Cimarron Review, Post Road, Brevity, Hunger Mountain, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her book Under My Bed and Other Essays is forthcoming (Fall 2022) from University of Nebraska Press. Read more of her work at www.jodykeisner.com.
Ann Keniston is a poet-scholar interested in the relation of the creative to the scholarly. She is the author of several poetry collections, including, most recently, Somatic (Terrapin, 2020), as well as several scholarly studies of contemporary American poetry; she has also coedited several volumes, including The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21stCentury Anthology (McFarland, 2012). Her poems have appeared in over thirty journals, including Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, and Literary Imagination...
