Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), and In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A book of literary criticism, Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora (Cambria, 2013), appears in the Cambria World Sinophone Series edited by Victor H. Mair, Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Lee currently serves as Full Professor of English and Chair at a liberal arts college in greater Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. from the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University and a Ph.D. in British and American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Julia Watts Belser is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. She brings feminist, queer, and disability studies perspectives to the study of rabbinic literature and Jewish ethics. She held a research fellowship from the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School in 2011–12 and previously taught at Missouri State University. She received her PhD from the Joint Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union, as well as rabbinic ordination from the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. She serves on the board of the Society for Jewish Ethics as well as Nehirim, a national community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Jews, partners, and allies. [jwb84@georgetown.edu]
Margo Berdeshevsky often lives in Paris. Her poetry collections are Between Soul and Stone and But a Passage in Wilderness (Sheep Meadow Press.) Her Beautiful Soon Enough received Fiction Collective Two’s Innovative Fiction Award (University of Alabama Press). Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, two Pushcart “special mention” citations for works in Kenyon Review, Agni, Pleiades, New Letters, Poetry International, and more. A multigenre collection of poems and images, Stilled Summer, is at the next gate, and a cross-genre novel Vagrant is forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press. For more detailed [End Page 185] information, see http://redroom.com/member/margo-berdeshevsky [margober @maui.net]
Lauren Camp is the author of two books of poems, The Dailiness (Edwin E. Smith, 2013) and This Business of Wisdom (West End Press, 2010). She was a juror for the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and guest editor for special sections in World Literature Today (on international jazz poetry) and Malpaís Review (on the poetry of Iraq). Her poems have been published in Brilliant Corners, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sweet, and Feminist Studies. A radio producer and host on Santa Fe Public Radio, Lauren is also an acclaimed visual artist (www.laurencamp.com). [lauren@laurencamp.com]
Adele Chynoweth studied theater direction at the Flinders University Drama Centre. In addition to her professional theater direction credits, in 2002 she was awarded a PhD for her research in contemporary Australian drama. In 2001, she was the researcher and writer for the Memory Museum, an official part of the South Australian celebrations of the 2001 Centenary of Federation South Australia. She was the co-curator of National Museum of Australia’s exhibition Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions. She is currently a Visitor within the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, where, in 2012, she received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award. [Adele.Chynoweth@anu.edu.au]
Marvin M. Ellison completed his doctoral studies in 1981 at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he was Beverly Wildung Harrison’s first doctoral advisee. He then taught Christian social ethics for thirty-two years at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine. His latest book is Making Love Justice: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times (Fortress Press, 2012). He founded the Maine Interfaith Council for Reproductive Choices, a network of clergy and faith leaders who provide public education, pastoral care, and public policy advocacy in behalf of reproductive justice. [mellison122@gmail.com]
Michelle Fletcher read English as an undergraduate at Cambridge University. She has an MA in Biblical Studies from King’s College...
