Contributors' Notes

Winter 2008-09

Stephen Ackerman"s poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Boulevard, Columbia Review, Mudfish, Partisan Review, Seneca Review and upstreet. He lives with his wife, Laurie, and their sons, Nick and Will, in Dutchess County, New York. "I Would Live a Day with You" is from his manuscript Late Life.

Dick Allen"s new collection is the Zen Buddhist-influenced Present Vanishing: Poems (Sarabande, 2008). His work is included in the forthcoming Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes as well as Dramatic Monologues: A Contemporary Anthology. Allen recently completed writing a book-length epic, The Neykhor, based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Keith Althaus has published two books, Ladder of Hours (Ausable, 2005) and Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts, 1993). He has curated exhibits at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He lives in North Truro on Cape Cod.

Andrew Foster Altschul is the author of the novel Lady Lazarus, published in 2008. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Esquire, McSweeney"s, Fence, One Story, and anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. He lives in San Francisco.

Beth Bachmann"s first book, Temper, was selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of the awp Donald Hall Poetry Prize and will appear from University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 2009. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Tin House, among other journals. She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

Hadara Bar-Nadav"s book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit, 2007) won the Margie Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Jose Perez Beduya lives with his wife and cat in Ithaca, New York. His poems have been published or will soon appear in High Chair, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, and Colorado Review. He is at work on Throng, his first book-length collection.

Reginald Dwayne Betts teaches poetry with the D.C. Creative Writing Workshop. He attends the University of Maryland and received the Holden Fellowship to attend Warren Wilson College"s M.F.A. program. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, and Ninth Letter. He"s finishing his memoir, A Question of Freedom.

Deborah Bogen"s first full-length collection, Landscape with Silos, won the 2005 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews appear widely. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she is completing a new book.

Susan Briante"s poems have appeared recently in Court Green, Damn the Caesars, and Mandorla. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Pioneers in the Study of Motion, was recently published by Ahsahta Press. Briante teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she lives with the poet Farid Matuk.

Ashley Capps" first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was published in 2006. Recent work has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, and Poetry London.

Carrie Causey currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 2006, and is originally from St. Gabriel, Louisiana, a small town along the Mississippi River. This is her first publication.

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor, 2006). Recent poems appear in Court Green, Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.

Terese Coe"s poems and translations appear in Poetry, Threepenny Review, New American Writing, Smartish Pace, 32 Poems, Nimrod, Measure, Agenda, Orbis, and Poetry Nottingham, among others. Her book, The Everyday Uncommon, won a Word Press publication prize in 2004, and she has received two grants from Giorno Poetry Systems.

Carolina Conroy lives in New York City.

Caroline Conway"s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, New York Quarterly, Ology, and luzmag. She lives in New York City, and works for a private investment firm.

Eduardo C. Corral"s work has been honored with a "Discovery"/ The Nation award and residencies from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He was the 2007-08 Olive B. O"Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University. In the fall of 2008 he served as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University.

Daniel Coudriet lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia, and in Carcarañá, Argentina. His poems have recently appeared in Verse, Denver Quarterly, and American Letters & Commentary, and he is currently translating the Argentinean poets Oliverio Girondo and Reynaldo Sietecase.

Wende Crow lives and teaches in Seoul.

Diana Marie Delgado grew up in La Puente, California. A graduate of the poetry programs at the University of California-Riverside and Columbia University, she is the winner of numerous writing awards. Her work has appeared in Bordersenses, The Indiana Review, Lumina, Ninth Letter, Perihelion, and Pistola. Other selected work can be heard at www.fishouse.org.

Ben Doller (né Doyle)"s first book of poems, Radio, Radio, was selected by Susan Howe as winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award. His second book, FAQ:, will be published by Ahsahta Press in 2009, and his third book, Dead Ahead, is forthcoming from Fence Books. He co-edits the Kuhl House Contemporary Poets series and teaches in Antioch"s Low-Residency M.F.A. program.

Sandra Doller (née Miller)"s first book, Oriflamme, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005, and her second collection, Chora, is forthcoming from Ahsahta in 2010. She is the founder and editrice of 1913, a magazine and press, and teaches at Cal State San Marcos.

Denise Duhamel"s recent poetry titles are Two and Two (Pitt, 2005), Mille et un sentiments (Firewheel, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pitt, 2001). She teaches at Florida International University.

Meghan L. Dunn, a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Emerson College, was the recipient of a 2008 Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writers" Room of Boston. Her poems have appeared in Rock and Sling and Post Road. She teaches English at a public high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tarfia Faizullah is a third year poetry student in Virginia Commonwealth University"s creative writing program, as well as a former associate editor of Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts. She was a 2007 awp Intro Journals Project award winner. Her poems have appeared in Diode, Memorious, Green Mountains Review, Harpur Palate, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.

Amanda Field"s poems have recently appeared in POOL, ZYZZYVA, The Big Ugly Review and elsewhere. A chapbook of poems, That Year, was published by Etherdome in 2007.

Rebecca Morgan Frank"s poetry has appeared in Georgia Review, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of the online journal Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction.

Beatrix Gates"s poetry collections include Ten Minutes and In the Open. A translation by Gates/Arenal of Jesus Aguado"s The Poems of Vikram Babu is forthcoming from HOST Publications, 2009. Librettist and conceiver of "The Singing Bridge," music by Anna Dembska, the opera premiered at Maine"s Stonington"s Opera House in 2005.

Ross Gay"s first book is Against Which (CavanKerry Press). He is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and is a recent Cave Canem graduate. He teaches poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington, and in the Drew University low-residency M.F.A. program.

Carmen Gimenez Smith"s chapbook, Casanova Variations, was recently published by Dos Press. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and teaches at New Mexico State University.

Jessica Greenbaum"s book of poems, Inventing Difficulty (Silverfish Review, 2000), won the Gerald Cable Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, The Nation, and Poetry London. She is the poetry editor of upstreet, an annual.

David Guterson is the author of four novels, including Snow Falling on Cedars and, most recently, The Other, and of the short story collection The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind. He lives on Bainbridge Island, in Washington state, and is a co-founder of Field"s End, an organization for writers.

Gail Hanlon"s work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Best American Poetry, and other journals and anthologies. She also received first prize in the National Writers Union"s 10th Annual Poetry Contest. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Justin Hardecker was born in 1986 and raised in Upstate New York by his mother and stepfather, and by his father and stepmother in Ashford, Connecticut. He studied poetry for three years with Olga Broumas, pursuing his B.A. at Brandeis University. He currently lives and works in Albany.

Francine J. Harris is a Cave Canem graduate and has work appearing in McSweeney"s Poets Picking Poets, Ninth Letter, The Drunken Boat, Boxcar Poetry Review, and in the recent anthology To Be Left With the Body. She is Writer-in-Residence at a local high school in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan.

Suzanne Heyd is the author of the chapbooks Crawl Space (Phylum, 2007) and the forthcoming Fascicles (Finishing Line, 2009). Her recent work appears in AGNI, jubliat, Gulf Stream, Washington Square, Spillway, Interim, and elsewhere. She is currently taking a sabbatical from domesticity.

Scott Hightower"s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He is also the recipient of a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. A native of central Texas, he lives and works in New York City.

Kathleen Hill teaches in the M.F.A. Program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her novel Still Waters in Niger was named a Notable Book by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, and the French translation was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. Her stories have won a number of literary awards, and have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories.

Ailish Hopper"s chapbook, Bird in the Head, won the 2005 Center for Book Arts award. Individual poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry and Many Mountains Moving, and she has received fellowships from the Baltimore Commission for Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. She teaches at Goucher College.

J. L. Jacobs is the author of the poetry collection The Leaves in Her Shoes (Lost Roads, 1997) and the chapbook Varieties of Inflorescence (Leave, 1992).

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian American physician whose first poetry collection, The Earth in the Attic, won the Yale series for Younger Poets in 2007. He is also the translator of Mahmoud Darwish"s The Butterfly"s Burden.

George Kalogeris is the author of a book of poems based on the life of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). He is currently working on a collection of translations entitled Dialogos.

Joshua Kryah is the author of Glean (2007). A former Schaeffer Fellow in poetry, he teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Laurie Lamon is professor of English at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and she was the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship in 2007. Her collection, The Fork Without Hunger (CavanKerry), was published in 2005. Her second, Without Wings, is forthcoming in the spring of 2009.

Shara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Additional awards include an O"Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, the Gilman School"s Tickner Fellowship, a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from University of Wisconsin, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Threepenny, AGNI, and Fence, among others.

Nina Lindsay"s first book of poetry is Today"s Special Dish, published by Sixteen Rivers Press. New work has appeared in Shenandoah, Columbia Poetry Review, Northwest Review, Fence, and other journals. Nina is a children"s librarian in Oakland, California.

Colleen Lookingbill co-edits EtherDome Press with Elizabeth Robinson and curates a North Beach poetry series with husband Jordon Zorker. Recent work is in New American Writing and 26 Magazine. Her book of poetry, Incognita, was published by SINK Press. This poem is from a new manuscript, entitled the forgetting of.

Alessandra Lynch is the author of Sails the Wind Left Behind and It was a terrible cloud at twilight. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and others. She lives near an Indianapolisian canal and teaches at Butler University.

Kaisa Ullsvik Miller"s debut collection, Unspoiled Air, was awarded the 2008 Motherwell Prize for Poetry (Fence).

Miguel Murphy is the author of A Book Called Rats (Eastern Washington, 2007) and the Curating Editor for PISTOLA: A Literary Journal of Poetry Online (www.pistolamag.org).

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore (Slope, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals including Conduit, Vanitas, jubilat and No: A Journal of the Arts. A graduate of Carleton College, she is currently attending the Iowa Writers" Workshop.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), winner of the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year. New poems appear in Antioch Review and American Poetry Review. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia.

Linnea Ogden"s poems have appeared in various publications, Conduit and The Boston Review among them. She works at Arion Press in San Francisco.

Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart Prize recipient. In 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Press published Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones and reissued A Handful of Bees as a CMU Classic Contemporary. A Founding editor of Four Way Books, she teaches at Solstice Low-Residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing of Pine Manor College.

Sue Owen, who taught as the Poet-in-Residence at Louisiana State University, now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recently, she was a featured poet, reading from The Devil"s Cookbook (LSU, 2007) at the Louisiana Book Festival. Her poems previously appeared in Harvard Magazine, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review.

C. E. Perry graduated from the Iowa Writers" Workshop in 1992 and Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. Her work has been published in Southeast Review, GSU Review, Margie and Pool. Her first book of poetry, Night Work, is forthcoming from Sarabande Press. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter.

Deborah Poe is the author of a poetry collection entitled Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords, 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Deborah has received several literary awards, including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations.

Kevin Prufer is the author of several poetry collections, the most recent of which are National Anthem (Four Way, 2008) and Fallen From a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005). He is also editor of, among others, New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT, 2007), which received the Vassar Miller Prize. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Handsome, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and lives in Chicago.

Robyn Sara"s eighth poetry collection, Pause for Breath, will be published in 2009; her last was A Day"s Grace in 2003. She has also published two short story collections and a book of essays on poetry. A selected poems in French translation came out in 2007. She lives in Montreal.

Peter Selgin"s book of stories, Drowning Lessons (Georgia), won the 2008 Flannery O"Connor Award. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies, was a finalist for the AWP and the James Jones awards and is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. He is also the author of a book on fiction writing, By Cunning & Craft (Writer"s Digest, 2007), and edits Alimentum: The Literature of Food.

Jeffrey Skinner"s latest collection of poems is Salt Water Amnesia. His more recent poems have recently appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, and Sentence. His play, Down Range, is scheduled for production in New York City in 2009.

Megan Staffel"s new collection of short fiction is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She is the author of the novels, The Notebook of Lost Things and She Wanted Something Else and a story collection called A Length of Wire. She teaches in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.

Kenneth Steven, a writer from Highland Scotland, has published some twenty titles to date. A volume of his selected poems, Wildscape, appeared in 2008.

L. J. Sysko received her Bachelor"s degree in English from Layayette College and her M.F.A. in poetry from New England College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 5AM, New York Quarterly, Alehouse, and www.dirtynapkin.com. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware with her family and teaches English at Tower Hill School.

Rawdon Tomlinson has taught at many colleges and universities. His recent book is Geronimo After Kas-ki-yeh (LSU, 2007). He is currently working on a book of poems about growing up in Oklahoma.

Jennifer Tseng"s book The Man With My Face(AAWW, 2005) was winner of the Asian American Writers" Workshop National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Beyond Margins Award. She is currently at work on a novel.

Valerie Vogrin is the author of the novel Shebang (Mississippi, 2004). Her stories have appeared in The Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and prose editor of Sou"wester.

Jonathan Weinert won the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize for his debut, In the Mode of Disappearance. Recent work appears in The Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Bellingham Review, Third Coast, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor of the online journal Perihelion.

Simone White"s poems appear in Tuesday: An Ar4t Project, Indiana Review, the Cave Canem anthology Gathering Ground and the poem/painting chapbook Dolly (Q Ave, with Kim Thomas). Currently a doctoral student in English at CUNY Graduate Center, she holds an M.F.A. from The New School and J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Rober Wrigley"s poetry collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006), Lives of the Animals (2003), Reign of Snakes (1999), In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995), What My Father Believed (1991); Moon in a Mason Jar (1986), and The SInking of Clay City (1979).

Fan Wu grew up on a state-run farm in southern China, where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution. She came to the United States in 1997 to attend Stanford University and started writing in 2002. Her debut novel, February Flowers, has been translated into eight languages. Her new novel, Beautiful as Yesterday, is forthcoming in 2009. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Missouri Review, and Asia Literary Review. She lives in Northern California.

Mande Zecca is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa"s Writers" Workshop. In addition to her M.F.A. in poetry, she holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University. Some of her interests and/or obsessions include book arts, Arte Povera, and the Berkeley Renaissance poets. She currently lives in Northwestern Connecticut.