Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Charles Baxter is the author of five novels and five books of stories, most recently Gryphon: New and Selected Stories. He is also the author of two books of literary criticism. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Gabrielle Bell is an American cartoonist best known for the Lucky series, the third volume of which won the Ignatz award for Best Outstanding Minicomic in 2003. Lucky was collected and published by Drawn and Quarterly in two volumes in 2006 and 2007. Her most recent book, Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories, was released in 2009. Her work has been chosen three times for the annual Best American Comics series.
Dino Buzzati (1906–1972) was born in Belluno, Italy, and spent most of his life in Milan. By vocation he was an editor and correspondent for Corriere della Sera, but he is best known for his five novels, including Il deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe), numerous poetry and short-story collections, several plays, his paintings, and his libretti for operas by composers such as Luciano Chailly and Giulio Viozzi.
Bruce Cohen’s poems have appeared in Agni, the Georgia Review, the Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and the Southern Review, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He has published two books: Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse), which won the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize, and Swerve (Black Lawrence). A third, Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep, is forthcoming this summer from Black Lawrence.
Michael Collier’s sixth book, An Individual History, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2012. In 2009 he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Anna Carson Dewitt teaches and writes in Durham, North Carolina.
Katy Didden earned a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including Bat City Review, the Kenyon Review, Smartish Pace, and Poetry. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at St. Louis University.
Edward Field’s latest book of poems is After the Fall: Poems Old and New. He lives in New York with his partner, Neil Derrick, with whom he collaborated (under the pseudonym Bruce Elliot) on a historical novel of Greenwich Village, The Villagers, just out in a third revised edition.
Lauren Groff is the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton and the story collection Delicate Edible Birds. Her second novel, Arcadia, has just been published. [End Page 246]
Jared Harel lives in Astoria, New York. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, the Threepenny Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. He also plays drums for the Dust Engineers, a rock band based in New York City.
Robert Hass teaches English and American literature at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco/HarperCollins).
Thomas E. Kennedy’s thirty books include the Copenhagen Quartet, being published by Bloomsbury worldwide: In the Company of Angels (2010), Falling Sideways (2011), and two more forthcoming volumes. This year New American Press will issue his Getting Lucky: Twenty New and Selected Stories, 1982–2012. His essays can be found in current or forthcoming issues of the Southern Review, the Boston Review, Epoch, and the South Carolina Review.
Verlyn Klinkenborg is a member of the New York Times editorial board and the author of Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, The Rural Life, and Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile. His new book, Several Short Sentences About Writing, will be published by Knopf in August. He lives on a small farm in upstate New York.
Amy Leach is a 2010 recipient of a Whiting Award, and her first book, Things That Are, is forthcoming from Milkweed in July. She lives in Chicago.
Charlotte Matthews is the winner of the 2007 New Writers Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, chosen by George Garrett. She is the author of two full...
