Contributor Notes
- Contributor Notes
Ben Abercrombie is a student at the University of North Texas Toulouse Graduate School, where he is studying to earn his ma in creative writing and poetry. This is his first publication in a literary review. He lives with his cat in Denton, Texas.
Mike Broida’s work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Economist, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review’s Daily, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He received an mfa from Johns Hopkins University and a Fulbright grant to Portugal. He currently lives in Baltimore.
Nancy Naomi Carlson, twice a National Endowment for the Arts literature translation grant recipient, has published eleven titles (seven translated). An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2019) was called “new & noteworthy” by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, the Paris Review, and Poetry.
Emily Carr is a water witch, ransom artist, love poet, and professor. Her McSweeney’s collection, whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet—, inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the Ale Apothecary. Emily’s Tarot romance, Name Your Bird without a Gun, is available from Spork.
Meriwether Clarke’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, the Cimarron Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House (online), Poetry Daily, The Journal, Gigantic Sequins, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, twenty-first century woman, was released by Dancing Girl Press in 2019. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Sarah Crossland’s poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, and other journals. She currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she works as the marketing and communications director for New Dominion Book-shop, the oldest independent bookstore in Virginia. Read more of her work at sarahcrossland.com.
Helena de Bres writes literary nonfiction and teaches philosophy at Wellesley. Her creative writing has appeared in The Point, the Los Angeles Review, Another Chicago Magazine, the New York Times, Aeon, Psyche, The Rumpus, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Her book Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir came out in 2021.
Samantha DeFlitch is the author of Confluence (Broadstone Books, 2021). Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review, Appalachian Review, and On the Seawall, among others. She is the associate director of the Connors Writing Center at the University of New Hampshire.
Shira Dentz is the author of five books, including Sisyphusina (Pank, 2020)—winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize 2021—and two chapbooks. Her writing appears in venues such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series (Poets.org), and npr.
Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press) and coeditor of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande). New poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Believer, Iowa Review, and Ploughshares. He teaches at Bennington College and is the editor of Bennington Review.
Presently an adjunct professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, James Earp previously worked as a staff writer at Walt Disney Imagineering; a concept/script writer for LucasArts, a division of Lucasfilm; and for advertising agencies including McCann-Erickson, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Young & Rubicam.
Jen Stewart Fueston is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books, 2020), Latch (River Glass Books, 2019), and Visitations (Finishing Line Press 2015). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Thrush, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A native of Colorado, she has taught writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as internationally.
Ariel Katz is a writer from North Carolina and holds an mfa from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Copper Nickel, and she’s a regular contributor to the Ploughshares blog. She’s at work on her first novel.
Andrew Koch is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Texas and a lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize for emerging writers, and his work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Blackbird, Ploughshares, and elsewhere...
