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233 C O N T R I B U T O R S RalphAngel is the author of four books of poetry—Exceptions and Melancholies : Poems 1986–2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award), Twice Removed: Poems, Neither World (1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets), and Anxious Latitudes—as well as a translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song. His poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Award of the ModernPoetryAssociation.AngelisEdithR.WhiteDistinguishedProfessor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A Fulbright scholar, she has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the Maryland State Arts Council. She has taught American literature and creative writing at Goucher College, the University of Maryland, Jagiellonian University, Poland, and the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Victoria Chang’s second book of poetry, Salvinia Molesta, was published in 2008 as part of the VQR Poetry Series by the University of Georgia Press. Her first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and was published in 2005. It won the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award and was a finalist for the 2005 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry and for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals such as Paris Review, Nation, Poetry, New Republic, Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review , Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Pleiades, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and Best American Poetry 2005. She is the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. )DOFRQHU&RQWULEVLQGG $0 contributors 234 Lisa D. Chávez is the author of the poetry collections In an Angry Season and Destruction Bay. Her poems have appeared in such anthologies as Floricanto Si! A Collection of Latina Poetry, The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, and American Poetry: The Next Generation. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico. Patricia Clark is an award-winning poet who is both a professor in the Department of Writing and the poet-in-residence at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Author of My Father on a Bicycle and North of Wondering, her poetry has also appeared in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Slate, Strand, New England Review, North American Review, Pennsylvania Review, Black Warrior Review, and Seattle Review. She is the recipient of a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan for 2003. She is also the coeditor of Worlds in Our Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers. A new full-length book of poems, She Walks into the Sea, came out in 2009, as did a chapbook, Given the Trees. Stephen Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours. He has taught at Wichita State University, the University of Washington, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Dunn now spends time at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, and Frostburg, Maryland. Nancy Eimers is the author of three collections of poetry: A Grammar to Waking, No Moon (winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize), and Destroying Angel. She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and a Whiting Writer’s Award. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College. Blas Falconer is the author of A Question of Gravity and Light. He directs the creative writing program at Austin Peay State University and is the poetry editor for Zone 3: A Literary Journal and Zone 3 Press. Alice George lives in Evanston, Illinois, and teaches as a visiting poet in area schools and libraries and as an instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. She served as an editor of RHINO for ten years and...

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