Contributors
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Barbara Robinette Moss received her MFA from Drake University and her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. She has participated in over one hundred juried art exhibitions, including the Los Angeles Printmaking Society's Contemporary American Printmakers and the Museum of American Art's Drawing Midwest. She began writing while in graduate school. She has two memoirs, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter and Fierce, both published by Scribner. Of her work, Moss writes: My art and writing are the same—a way to sing praises for this gift of life.
Prose
Allison Amend's work appears in One Story, Black Warrior Review, and the Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. A collection of her short stories will be published by Other Voices Press in the fall of 2008. Her debut short story collection, which includes “Dominion Over Every Erring Thing,” will be published in October 2008 by OV Books.
Rolaine Hochstein is the author of the novels Stepping Out and Table 47. Her short stories have won two O. Henry Prizes and a Pushcart Prize. She is a member of the New York City Writers Room.
Nicholas Rinaldi's most recent novel, Between Two Rivers, is available from HarperCollins. He was awarded the 2007 Artist of the Year Award from the Fairfield Arts Council. He resides in Connecticut with his wife, Jacqueline.
Valerie Sayers is the author of five novels, including Brain Fever and Who Do You Love. Her work appears in Ploughshares, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.
Asako Serizawa is currently working on a collection of linked stories (of which “Luna” is a part). Her worked has appeared in the Southern Review, and she has been awarded a fellowship to attend the Vermont Studio Center.
Poetry
Maggie Anderson's most recent book of poetry is Windfall: New and Selected Poems (U of Pittsburgh P). She is the coeditor of After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Both volumes are available from the University of Iowa Press. Anderson is also the editor of the new and selected poems of Louise McNeill and coeditor of A Gathering of Poets.
Hadara Bar-Nadav's book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/IntuiT House) won the Margie Book Prize. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and TriQuarterly.
Bill Brown is the author of three chapbooks, three poetry collections, and a writing textbook. His new collection, Late Winter, is forthcoming from Iris Press. His work has recently appeared in North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, and Borderlands.
Scott Cairns's work appears in the Paris Review, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry. His most recent book, the memoir Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage, is available from HarperSanFrancisco. His book Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected and a translation entitled Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life are both available from Paraclete Press.
Joseph Campana's work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and TriQuarterly, among other publications. His first collection, The Book of Faces, is available from Graywolf Press. He is the recipient of a 2007 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and is completing a book of poems called Sheltering Bough.
Marilyn Chin's most recent book is the poetry collection Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Her work in this issue will be included in Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen which is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.
Denise Duhamel's most recent book, Two and Two (U of Pittsburgh P), won Binghamton University's Milt Kessler Book Award. She is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami.
Matthew Echelberger's work appears in Wind Magazine, Zone 3, and The Driftwood Review. He received his mfa from Vermont College.
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc's work appears in the AGNI Online, the New Republic, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest, among other publications. He is currently the executive director of The Telling Room, a nonprofit community writing center in Portland, Maine.
Ann Fisher-Wirth's most recent book, Five Terraces, is currently available from Wind Publications. She has received the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry Award, and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 2007.
Kathleen Flenniken's first collection of poetry, Famous, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry in 2005 and was named an American Library Association Notable Book for 2007. Her new work addresses the history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and her hometown.
Jonathan Holden was the first poet laureate of the state of Kansas. His work has recently appeared in Black Warrior Review and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column. His memoir, Mama's Boys: A Double Life, was recently published by Lewis-Clark Press.
Sarah Kennedy is the author of Consider the Lilies (David Robert Books), Double Exposure (Cleveland State UP), and Flow Blue (Elixir). Her fifth book, A Witch's Dictionary, is forthcoming from Elixir Press, and her sixth, Home Remedies, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Marilyn Krysl's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her fourth story collection, Dinner with Osama, won the Richard Sullivan Prize in 2008.
Maxine Kumin's sixteenth poetry collection, Still to Mow, is available from W. W. Norton. Her latest children's book, Mites to Mastodons, is available from Houghton Mifflin. She has been the recipient of the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly poetry prizes, the Poet's Prize, and the Robert Frost Medal. She and her husband live on a farm in Warner, New Hampshire.
Frannie Lindsay's most recent collection of poetry, Lamb, is available from Perugia Press and was chosen as the runner-up for the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award.
David Mason's most recent book, Ludlow, is available from Red Hen Press. He has also published books entitled Arrivals and The Country I Remember.
Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 1964. His most recent book, Zodiac of Echoes, is available from Ausable Press. In addition, he has translated five books of Arabic poetry and had his own work translated into Arabic, Polish, and French.
Linda McCarriston lives in Maine and has published three books of poetry. She is currently working on a collection of essays and interviews entitled Class Colored Glasses for the University of Michigan Press's Class:Culture series.
Samuel Menashe's New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, is currently available from the Library of America. His work appears in Poetry and The Harvard Review.
Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including the forthcoming The Second Blush (Norton). Her work appears in the New Yorker, the Nation, and the Paris Review, among other publications. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Kevin Prufer is the author of Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon) and National Anthem (Four Way Books). He is also the coeditor of The New European Poets (Graywolf).
Paisley Rekdal's newest book of poems, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, is available from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Roy Scheele's work appears in the Formalist, Iambs & Trochees, Poetry, and the Southern Review. The poems in this issue are based on photographs and paintings. They are part of the final section of his manuscript.
Floyd Skloot has three forthcoming books. They are his Selected Poems: 1970–2005 (Tupelo), the new collection of poems The Snow's Music (Louisiana State UP), and his memoir The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (U of Nebraska P). He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Adrienne Su is currently completing her third book of poems, Having None of It, with the support of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her last book was entitled Sanctuary and is currently available from Manic D Press. Her work appears in Crazyhorse, Eclipse, and Green Mountains Review.
Diane Thiel is the author of six books of poetry, and her new textbook, Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction, is forthcoming. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Poetry and the Sewanee Review.
D. H. Tracy lives in Illinois and is the editor of the Poetry Foundation's Web archive.
Reviews
Tom Gannon is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His recent critical scholarship has included ecocritical/postcolonial comparative studies of Native American and Euro-American literatures, and the representation of other species in literary and popular discourse.
J. K. Halligan lives in Toronto, where he edits a magazine called Earlscourt.
Marilyn Kallet is the author of fourteen books, including the recent translation Last Love Poems of Paul Éluard, which is currently available from Black Widow Press. She also coedited The Moveable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion (Helicon Nine Editions).
Mihaela Moscaliuc's reviews have appeared in TriQuarterly, Georgia Review, and Poetry International. She has also published poems and translations in many other journals.
Jane Satterfield's poetry collections are Shepherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers' Publishing House) and Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir). Her nonfiction has received the Gold Medal in the Essay from the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition, the John Guyon Award, the Florida Review Editor's Prize, and the Heekin Foundation's Cuchulain Fellowship. She was born in England and educated in the United States.
Carrie Shipers's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, the Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Meridian. Her chapbook Ghost Writing was recently published in the Pudding House Chapbook series. She received her mfa from Ohio State University and is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Christine Stewart-Nuñez's chapbooks, The Love of Unreal Things and Unbound & Branded, were published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Poetry East, Passages North, and Arts and Letters, among other journals and magazines.
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