Contributors' Notes

Fall 2009

Cynie Cory's "Upper Peninsula Woods" is from White Out, a work in progress. Author of American Girl, Cory currently directs teens in Shakespeare's Richard III.

Louise DeSalvo is the Jenny Hunter Endowed Scholar for Creative Writing and Literature at Hunter College. Among her publications are Virginia Woolf, Writing as a Way of Healing, the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, Adultery, Crazy in the Kitchen, and On Moving. She is currently writing a manuscript entitled Father, Gone to War.

Danielle Dreilinger has contributed to the Boston Globe, WBUR, The New York Times, No Depression, Nashville Scene, and numerous other outlets. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Bonnie Friedman is the author of the essay collection Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life (HarperCollins) and the memoir The Thief of Happiness (Beacon). She is finishing a novel set in Manhattan, and recently moved to Texas, where she teaches at the University of North Texas.

Kelle Groom's nonfiction has recently appeared in Agni, Brevity, Bloomsbury Review, New Madrid, Opium, and Witness, and is forthcoming in West Branch. Her third poetry collection, Five Kingdoms, will be published by Anhinga Press in fall 2009. "Evidence of Things Unseen" is from her memoir manuscript, City of Shoes.

Jessamyn Hope is a native Montrealer living in New York City. Since receiving her M.F.A. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, her work has appeared in literary magazines and newspapers. Most recently, a chapter from her novel in progress was featured in the Summer 2009 issue of Canada's Descant.

Chip Livingston is the author of The Museum of False Starts (Gival, 2010) and the chapbook Alarum: (Other Rooms, 2007). His poems and stories have appeared in Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Drunken Boat, McSweeney's, and New American Writing. He lives in New York City.

Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poems and three books of essays. A collection of stories, Apparition and Late Fictions, will be published in January 2010. A book of poems, Walking Papers, will follow later that year. He lives in Milford, Michigan and in Moveen, West Clare, Ireland.

Alyce Miller's most recent book, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize. More than 150 short stories, poems, essays, and articles have appeared in literary magazines. She teaches at Indiana University, and works as a pro bono attorney for animal rights.

Martin Moran lives in New York City where he works as an actor. His memoir, The Tricky Part (Beacon, 2005), won a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and Lambda Literary Award. His solo play of the same name received an Obie. He's at work on a book of essays about forgiveness.

Laura Mullen is the author of five books. She has received Ironwood's Stanford Prize, a Rona Jaffe Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for her writing, and her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in American Hybrid (Norton, 2009). She teaches at Louisiana State University.

Sara B. Nelson received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2008. "Jo Jo and Becky Took Ballet" is an excerpt from a memoir about her father's criminal past and her experience growing up as the daughter of a death row survivor. She lives in New York City.

Fae Myenne Ng received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her novel, Bone, was a 1994 PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist. Steer Toward Rock, supported by the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award and the Lannan Foundation, received a 2008 American Book Award.

Christine O'Hagan is the author of Benediction at the Savoia, a novel, and The Book of Kehls, a memoir which was chosen by Kirkus as a Best Book of 2005. O'Hagan has published essays in several anthologies, The New York Times, Newsday, and other publications.

Becky Ohlsen is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, and a recent graduate of NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. She's been riding motorcycles for about five years and struggling for almost as long to express the reasons why.

Annie G. Rogers is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Hampshire College. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Ireland, and a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University, she is the author of A Shining Affliction (Penguin Viking, 1995), Charlie's Chasing the Sheep (Lismore, 2003), and The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma (Random House, 2006). She has published poetry and short fiction, and currently is writing a novel.

Daniel Asa Rose is the author, most recently, of Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With my Black Sheep Cousin and his Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life.

Renée Schaller is completing her first book, a series of personal essays about her relationship to home. Growing up, Renée lived in many places: a camper, a school bus, a homeless mission. Now she lives in New York City where she teaches writing at Hunter College.

Burlee Vang's work has appeared in North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Runes, and the anthologies Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006 (Random House) and Highway 99 : A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley (Heyday Books). He is finishing his M.F.A. at Fresno State.

Claire Vaye Watkins is a Nevadan, an M.F.A. student at the Ohio State University, and the Associate Fiction Editor of The Journal. Her recent work has appeared in Hobart, The Hopkins Review, and online at Granta.