Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Elizabeth Arnold is the author of five books of poems, including The Reef (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Effacement (Flood Editions, 2010), and Skeleton Coast (Flood Editions, 2017). The recipient of a Whiting Award and an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, Arnold teaches poetry at the University of Maryland.
David Baker’s new book of poems, Whale Fall, will appear in July from W. W. Norton. He is leading workshops this summer for the KR writers workshops and for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Renée Branum’s prose has appeared in several publications, including The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Literary Hub. Her story “As the Sparks Fly Upward” was included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. She has earned an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and in Nonfiction from the University of Montana. In 2020 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose to aid in the completion of her first novel, Defenestrate (Bloomsbury, January 2022). Branum currently lives in Cincinnati, where she is pursuing a PhD in Fiction Writing.
Nolan Capps is a veteran, a songwriter, and a graduate of New York University’s MFA program. His fiction has appeared in phoebe and War, Literature & the Arts. Capps lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his fiancée, and he is revising his first novel.
Marilyn Chin’s latest book is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2018). In 2020, she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Presently, she serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Chin lives in San Diego.
Grant Clauser is the author of five books, including Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and others. He works as an editor and teaches at Rosemont College.
David Crouse is author of the short-story collections Copy Cats (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and The Man Back There (Sarabande Books, 2008) and a collection of novellas, Trouble Will Save You (forthcoming from the University of Alaska Press, 2022). Crouse’s work has been published widely and has been awarded the Lawrence Prize, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. They live in Seattle, Washington, where they teach in the MFA Program at the University of Washington–Seattle.
Calvin Gimpelevich is an NEA Literature Fellow, the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, and the author of the short-story collection Invasions (Instar, 2018). His work has been published in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, them, and other journals. He is working on several novels.
Linda Gregerson’s new book of poems, Canopy, was published by Ecco this spring. She teaches at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Helen Zell Writers’ Program.
Brenda Hillman is the author of ten collections of poetry from Wesleyan University Press. In a Few Minutes Before Later is forthcoming in 2022. A recipient of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, Hillman is a chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. http://blueflowerarts.com/artist/brenda-hillman/
Strummer Hoffston is a poet living in New York City. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Yale Review, Radar, Salt Hill, and Epiphany, where she was a winner of the Epiphany Breakout! Writers Prize.
Arinze Ifeakandu is a MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was the winner of the 2018 Richard Yates Short Story Contest. He also was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2017 and was the winner of a 2015 A Public Space Emerging Writer Fellowship, for his story “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things.” Ifeakandu currently holds a teaching fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his stories have recently appeared in A Public...
