Contributors’ Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
Semyon Akimovich An-Sky [Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport] (1863–1920) was a Russian-Jewish scholar, dramatist, ethnographer, and social activist. A prolific author, he wrote in two languages, Russian and Yiddish, in a wide range of genres: popular articles, scholarly books, stories, plays, revolutionary songs, and novels. He was a much sought-after public speaker, lecturing to enthusiastic audiences. An-sky was born in the ancient city of Vitebsk, on the border between Russia and Latvia in the Pale of Settlement, during the last stages of the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment and at the beginning of a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms. He is best known in literary circles for his play The Dybbuk (1914), which immortalizes the legendary figure of a dead soul that takes possession of a living body to right an injustice suffered during its lifetime.
Aaron Baker is the author of Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), which won the Bakeless Prize in Poetry and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, he currently teaches creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
David Baker’s latest book of poems is Never-Ending Birds (W. W. Norton, 2009), which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. Talk Poetry, his collection of interviews with contemporary poets, will appear in 2012 from the University of Arkansas Press. Other new poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Northwest Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere.
Leslie Bazzett lives with her husband in Minneapolis. This is her first published story.
Joel Fishbane is an author of fiction and works for the theater. His writing has been or will be published in issues of Saranac Review, Carousel, Fifth Wednesday Journal, On Spec, Geist, Versal, and several other journals and magazines. He has a diabetic cat and sometimes plays the clarinet. For more information please visit www.joelfishbane.com.
Henrietta Goodman is a Ph.D. student in English at Texas Tech University. Her first book of poetry, Take What You Want, was published in 2007 by Alice James Books, and more of her poems have recently appeared in Massachusetts Review, Guernica, FIELD, and other journals.
Natalie Graham is a Cave Canem Fellow and she completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Florida. She currently studies at Michigan State University as a University Distinguished Fellow in the American Studies doctoral program. Her research interests include popular music and culture, Southern U.S. history, and identity performance.
Amy Glynn Greacen’s work has appeared in the New Criterion, Poetry Northwest, Sewanee Theological Review, Best American Poetry 2010, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
James Allen Hall is the author of Now You’re the Enemy (University of Arkansas Press, 2008), which received awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, he teaches creative writing and literature at the State University of New York–Potsdam. New work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Bloom, and Ninth Letter. [End Page 203]
Michael R. Katz is C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and Eastern European Studies. A graduate of Williams College, he received his M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford University in Russian. He taught at Williams College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College, where he also served as a Dean of the Language Schools and the Schools Abroad. He is the author of two books—one on the Russian literary ballad and the other on dreams in nineteenth-century Russian fiction—and has translated twelve Russian novels into English, including works by Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. At the present time, he is at work on “counter-stories” by Tolstoy’s wife and son written in response to Leo Tolstoy’s controversial tale “The Kreutzer Sonata.”
John Kinsella is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Recent titles...
