Contributors

Philip Alvaré lives in Hudson, New York and writes about fine arts and design. He was a coordinating producer with WGBH/PBS Boston and studied Theater Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and The Annenberg School for Communication.

O. Ayes is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where she serves as Managing Editor of Natural Bridge. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, RHINO, and Cider Press Review. She is originally from the Philippines.

Steven Cramer is the author of four collections of poems. The most recent, Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande, 2004), was named a 2005 Massachusetts Honor Book and won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. He directs the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.

Ellen Davis’s poems and reviews have appeared in several magazines, including California Quarterly, The Emily Dickinson Journal, and Harvard Review. She teaches at Boston University.

Sally Dawidoff lives and works in New York.

Kathleen de Azevedo’s novel about Brazilians in Hollywood, Samba Dreamers, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2006. Her short fiction has appeared in many publications including Boston Review, Greensboro Review, Cream City Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Green Mountains Review, Gettysburg Review and TriQuarterly.

James Doyle’s new book is Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes (Steel Toe Books, 2007). He has poems coming out in The Chaffin Journal, Poet Lore, The Jabberwock Review, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Rattle, and Notre Dame Review.

Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate, has published five collections of poetry. Her fourth book, Cold River Season, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2009. Duties of the Spirit, published by Tupelo Press, 2005, won the Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award. She has new work recently in The Massachusetts Review, Margie, The Connecticut Review, and The American Poetry Journal.

Gary Fincke’s fourth collection of stories, Sorry I Worried You, won the Flannery O’Connor Prize and was published by Georgia in 2004. His next book will be a memoir, The Canals of Mars, from Michigan State.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and 2007 National Magazine Award finalist whose essays have appeared in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, New Letters, Fourth Genre, Puerto del Sol and other journals. His honors include the 2006 New Letters Reader’s Award for essay and the 2005 New Letters Dorothy Cappon Churchill Prize for best essay. He lives with his wife and two children in Denver.

Pamela Garvey has published poetry in many literary journals including The North American Review, Sonora Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Pleiades and others. Her chapbook entitled Fear is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

Pamela Gemin is author of Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers and editor of three poetry anthologies from University of Iowa Press, the latest of which is Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework. She is Associate Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Landon Godfrey was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina, with her husband, Gary Hawkins. She works as a freelance writer and artist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including POOL, Lyric, Chelsea, and The Beloit Poetry Journal.

Jeremy Gregersen lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and teaches English and Creative Writing at The Meadows School. He is a graduate of the Universities of Utah and Oregon, respectively, and took his MFA from the University of Michigan, where he won the Meader Family Prize for Poetry.

Carol K. Howell is a 1985 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in Redbook, The North American Review, StoryQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, and other magazines. Persistent themes in her stories include atheism, mortality, and the problem of evil. And those are the funny ones. She’s written one novel about Jewish witches in New Orleans and another about psychics and the Holocaust. Currently, she writes fiction, bakes pies, and homeschools the dog in Illinois. Her children are leaving, but the dog and her husband are sticking around, probably for the pie. Certainly not for the atheism, mortality, and evil.

Lizzie Hutton’s poetry has appeared in the Yale Review, Gulf Coast and Interim, and her essays in the New England Review. A native of Brooklyn, she now lives in Ann Arbor, where she teaches at the University of Michigan.

Louise Jones holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has drawn since she was five years old. As a printmaker and painter, she draws to create lithographs, etchings, pen and ink drawings, or in preparation for paintings. Currently, her work deals with light and shadow, creating the illusion of actual space between objects, the female figure, and animals.

Susanne Kort´s poetry, prose and translations have appeared in Grand Street, The North American Review, New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, The Notre Dame Review, The Antioch Review and other journals in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and the British Isles. She is 2006 winner of the Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review.

Judy Kronenfeld teaches in the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside. Her second book of poetry, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, won the First Annual Litchfield Review Book Contest and will be published in 2008. Recent and forthcoming poetry credits include DMQ Review, Spoon River, Barnwood, Calyx, and Natural Bridge.

William Kupinse is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound. His poems have appeared in Cumberland Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, and Green Letters, and he has published essays in Novel and the South Carolina Review. He is currently working on an ecocritical study of literary modernism and waste titled The Remains of Empire.

J.T. Ledbetter’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Sewanee Review, Laurel Review, New York Quarterly, Asphodel, Louisville Review, Texas Review, Toledo Review, Evansville Review, Tar River Poetry, Salamander, Sou’wester, and others. His fiction has appeared in Rosebud, Lake Effect, Knock, The Mendocino Review, and Crosscurrents. His non-fiction has appeared in Big Muddy, Under the Sun, The Cresset, Walt Whitman Review, The Explicator and others.

Alexis Levitin has published twenty-four volumes of translations, including Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm and Eugénio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (both with New Directions). In 2007, he published a co-translation of Wallace Stevens’ Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction into Portuguese (Relogio d’Agua) and a co-translation from the Bulgarian of Georgi Gospodinov’s And Other Stories (Northwestern University Press). In the spring, Host Publications will bring out his translation of Astrid Cabral’s Amazonian poems, Cage.

George Looney’s third book of poetry, The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize in 2005. His novella, Hymn of Ash, won the Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook competition and will be published in spring, 2008. He chairs the creative writing program at Penn State Erie, is editor-in-chief of Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-director of The Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

Anna Lowe lives in Lafayette, Indiana, where she is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Purdue University. Her work has previously appeared in Black Warrior Review and Dislocate.

Joanne Lowery’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, 5 AM, Passages North, Atlanta Review, and Poetry East. She lives in Michigan.

Jami Macarty teaches contemporary poetry and poetics in the English Department and the Writing & Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University. Poems from her first manuscript, Shining From Sorrow, have been published in EOAGH, The Café Review, Salt River Review, Spork, and Volt, among other necessary journals. She has a poem forthcoming in Diagram.

Christopher Matthews’ poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Third Coast and elsewhere. He currently lives in Lexington, Virginia, where he occasionally teaches at Washington and Lee University.

Marc McKee is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he lives with his wife Camellia. Recent work may be found in Forklift,Ohio, The Concher, 32poems, DIAGRAM, and Low Rent, and is forthcoming from Boston Review and Conduit.

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool, 1955. His latest book of poems, Crocodiles & Obelisks, was published by Faber in November 2007. He edited the Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems. His translation of Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was published by Penguin earlier last year and The Embrace, translations of Valerio Magrelli’s poems, will be published by Faber this year.

In January, 2008, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered “The Singing Rooms,” a setting of six of Jeanne Minahan’s poems, by composer Jennifer Higdon. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra will premiere the work in 2009. Jeanne’s poems have appeared most recently in Mars Hill Review and The Women’s Review of Books. She teaches at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Eugenio Montejo is considered Venezuela’s foremost living poet. He is author of twelve books of poetry, including Elegos, Muerte y Memoria, Algunas Palabras, Terredad and Alfabeto del Mundo. He has published two books of essays as well, and four volumes of heteronymic work, including Guitarra del Horizonte and El Cuaderno de Blas Coll. Montejo received the prestigious Octavio Paz prize in 2005, and was awarded Venezuela’s National Prize for Literature in 1998.

Kirk Nesset is author of a book of short stories, Paradise Road (University of Pittsburgh Press), as well as The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction). His stories, poems, and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Raritan, Agni and elsewhere. Nesset was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2007, a Pushcart Prize in 1999, and is recipient of numerous grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College.

Anne Panning’s short story collection, Super America, won The 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has also published a book of short stories, The Price of Eggs (Coffeehouse Press, 1992), as well as short fiction and nonfiction in places such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The South Dakota Review, The Florida Review, The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kalliope, Quarterly West, and forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Five Points, The Laurel Review, and Under the Sun. Her essay “Specs: My Life in Eyeglasses” was listed as a Notable Essay in The 2006 Best American Essays.

Nancy K. Pearson, originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the second-year poetry fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She received her MFA from George Mason University. Her poems appear in journals such as The Iowa Review, The Black Warrior Review, The Adirondack Review and Margie. Her first collection of poems will be published by Perugia Press this fall.

Thomas Reiter’s most recent book of poems, Powers and Boundaries, was published in 2004 by LSU Press. He has received an Academy of American Poets Prize as well as poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

António Ramos Rosa has published over sixty volumes of poetry and has been awarded all of Portugal’s literary prizes, as well as France’s prestigious Prix Jean Malrieu. Translations of Ramos Rosa’s work have appeared in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and England. Here in the USA, Alexis Levitin has placed translations of his poems in over twenty magazines, including Atlanta Review, Bitter Oleander, Confrontation, Connecticut Review, Dirty Goat, International Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Xavier Review.

Allison Schuette-Hoffman, Assistant Professor of English, currently teaches at Valparaiso University. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Penn State University, and her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, PMS poemmemoirstory, The New Review of Literature, and Fourth Genre.

Carrie Shipers received her MFA from The Ohio State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Meridian, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and other journals. She is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Henry Shukman’s collection, In Dr No’s Garden was a Book of the Year in the Times and Guardian, and won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 2003. He has also won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Poetry Prize, and his poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books and the New Republic. He has worked as a travelwriter and a trombonist, and recently won the Author’s Club First Novel Award with Sandstorm (Cape, 2005).

Matthew Siegel is from New York and is currently pursuing his MFA in
poetry at the University of Houston. He is the assistant editor of
Pebble Lake Review and has work recently published or forthcoming in
Passages North, Salt Hill, Paterson Literary Review, and Forklift, Ohio.

Danika Stegeman is currently studying poetry at George Mason University. Her work has also appeared in The Denver Quarterly.

Linda Taylor teaches literature and writing at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tar River Poetry, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Black Warrior Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Ohio Review, and other journals. She advocates for trees and foster children, and regularly visits the Oregon coast.

Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, born and living in Venice-Italy, who has written poems exclusively in English since 1993. His poems have been published in around three hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere. Among them: Poetry New Zealand, New Contrast, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Dream Catcher, The SHOp, River Oak, Aesthetica, and Stand. His poetry collection, Re-Emerging, was published by www.gattopublishing.com in 2006.

Jesse Zuba recently co-edited American Religious Poems, published by the Library of America, with Harold Bloom. Currently completing a PhD in English at Yale University, he teaches at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.