Contributors
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Christopher Citro's poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Arts and Letters Prime, Fourteen Hills, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. He won the 2006 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry, and his poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice featured on Verse Daily. He is currently completing an MFA in poetry at Indiana University, where he received the Darrell Burton Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Taylor Collier is currently in the MFA program at Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, Harpur Palate, South Dakota Review, Willow Springs, and others.
Jaydn DeWald, an MFA candidate at Pacific University, currently lives with his wife in San Francisco, CA, where he writes, plays bass for the DeWald/Taylor Quintet, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Silk Road. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Columbia Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, West Branch, Witness, and others.
Katie Fallon is the author of the nonfiction book Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center's Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Fallon's essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and magazines, including The Bark, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Ecotone, Appalachian Heritage, Tusculum Review, and elsewhere. Her essay "Hill of the Sacred Eagles" was a finalist in Terrain.org's 2011 essay contest, and she has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught creative writing at Virginia Tech and West Virginia University. Her first word was "bird."
Keith Flynn is the author of six books: five collections of poetry, including The Talking Drum (Animal Sounds, 1991), The Book of Monsters (Animal Sounds, 1994), The Lost Sea (Iris Press, 2000), The Golden Ratio (Iris Press, 2007), and the forthcoming Colony Collapse Disorder (Wings Press, March 2013); and one book of essays, The [End Page 160] Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007).
Roxane Gay's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, American Short Fiction, NOON, and others. She coedits PANK and does lots of other things. She lives in the Midwest.
Benjamin S. Grossberg is the author of Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), which won the 2008 Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007). He teaches creative writing at the University of Hartford.
Sean Lovelace lives in Indiana, where he eats nachos and runs far and plays disc golf and teaches creative writing at Ball State University. He just dropped Fog Gorgeous Stag (Publishing Genius) and a flash fiction collection with other authors, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves (Rose Metal), on the world. He writes for HTML Giant. He blogs at seanlovelace.com.
Christian Nagle has published or has forthcoming poetry, essays, translations, interviews, and prose fiction in Paris Review, Esquire, Raritan, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, New England Review, Antioch Review, Measure, TLR, Kyoto Journal, Quick Fiction, and many other magazines. His first book of poems, Flightbook, will be published in English and Japanese by Salmon Poetry. For more than a decade he lived in Tokyo, where he translated the works of Chuya Nakahara.
Jon Pineda is the author of the memoir Sleep in Me, a Barnes and Noble "Discover" Selection. His books of poetry are The Translator's Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series Open Competition. His new poetry manuscript was a finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and his novel is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
Erin Pringle-Toungate, originally from Illinois, now lives in the Northwest with her husband and three dogs. Her first collection of stories, titled The Floating Order, was published by Two Ravens Press (2009). Her work has appeared in War, Literature & the Arts, New [End Page 161] York Tyrant, and Barrelhouse, among others. "How the Sun Burns" will be in her next book, How...
