CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Anania most recent books are In Natural Light (Moyer Bell) and Heat Lines (Moyer Bell). He taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is now on the graduate faculty in writing at Northwestern University. He lives in Austin, Texas and on Lake Michigan.

Maria Teresa Andruetto was born in 1954 in Arroyo Cabral (Argentina). She has written extensively for both adults and children and has won many awards, including the Luis Jose de Tejeda Prize for her novel, Tama (1992), and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize (2002) for another novel, La mujer en cuestión. Her work has been translated into English, German, and Italian.

Doug Arnold’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, The Sulpher River Literary Review, Psychopoetica, The Pedestal Magazine, The Color Wheel, and Pegasus. His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan’s Poetry,” was published in the Fall issue of the Schuylkill Valley Journal.

Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt, Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light, and The Revisionist’s Dream, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Contributing Editor to The Literary Review, and on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Madeleine Beckman is the author of Dead Boyfriends, a poetry collection. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing and journalism at Stern College for Women where she is Writer-in-Residence.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Cue. He teaches in the writing program at California College of the Arts and is the editor of Freehand, a journal devoted to handwritten work. His first book, Shy Green Fields, was published by No Tell Books in fall 2007.

Nina Berberova (1901-1993) is best known for her prose fiction and nonfiction, but she was also a poet, playwright, and translator. She left Russia in 1922 and lived in Paris until 1950, when she moved to the United States to teach at Yale and Princeton. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Cyphers, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Salt.

Rosa Alice Branco is the author of many collections of poetry, including A Woman Beloved and Animals of the Earth. She is a professor at the University of Aveiro and teaches the Psychology of Perception and Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Art and Design near Porto, Portugal. She is the organizer of an annual poetry festival in her hometown of Aveiro, serves as Secretary to the Portuguese PEN Club, and attends international poetry festivals all over the world. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.

Duff Brenna has published five novels. His first novel, The Book of Mamie, won the AWP Award and was recently reprinted by Wordcraft of Oregon.

René Guy Cadou was a follower of Max Jacob and a member of L’Ecole de Rochefort. His works include Bruit du coeur (1942), La vie rêvée (1944), and Les biens de ce monde (1951). Hélène ou le règne vegetal is his last book and was published posthumously. His poetry blends surrealism and Christianity with a deep love for nature and traditional country life.

Erik Campbell’s work recently appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Tin House, and Confrontation. His first poetry collection, Arguments for Stillness (Curbstone Press, 2006), was named by Book Sense as one of the top ten poetry collections for 2007.

Kevin Carey lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he edits film and video and teaches at Salem State College. Most recent publications include: Riptide: An Anthology of Crime Fiction, The Paterson Literary Review, The Red Mountain Review, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Writing, The Comstock Review, and Lips.

Basil Cleveland teaches ethics and poetry at Cambridge College (Cambridge, MA). His poems have recently appeared in Barrow Street, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Iowa Review, and The Bellingham Review.

Christine Condon is a writer living in Hoboken, New Jersey. She earned her MFA in fiction from The New School and works at a Manhattan publishing company.

N Courtright, an Ohio native, currently resides in Austin, Texas. His work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Salamander, Zone 3, Lilies & Cannonballs, Caketrain, and Phoebe, among others.

Jim Daniels’ most recent book is Street, a collection of his poems with the photographs of Charlee Brodsky. He wrote and produced Dumpster, a 2006 independent film.

William Delman received an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2006. His work has recently appeared in Chelsea, Salamander, Softblow, Shampoo and will soon be appearing in DMQ. He is a fiction editor at AGNI and a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Bronwen Densmore lives in Philadelphia where she teaches writing and is studying to become a librarian. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Pool, and The Harvard Review.

Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems from CavanKerry Press.

Irvin Faust is the author of nine books of fiction. His most recent novel is Jim Dandy. He has won two O’Henry Awards.

Gary Fincke’s collection Standing Around the Heart was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2005. A new collection, The Fire Landscape from Lost Language, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2008.

Nikos Fokas was born in Greece in 1927. His publications include several collections of poetry, the most recent being Point of Focus and By the River Kolima, as well as books of essays and fiction. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Iowa.

Andrew Gallagher lives and teaches in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review and are forthcoming in Connecticut Poetry Review.

Peter J. Grieco has taught American literature in Ankara and Seoul, and now teaches writing at Buffalo State College. His publications include Swirling Voices: Considerations of Working-Class Poetic Property and Lyric Subject as Communal Fragment in the Works of Claude McKay. His poems have appeared in Current Accounts, Court Green, Arsenic Lobster, Nexus, Nthposition, Aquapolis, Puerto del Sol, Folio, Fox Cry Review, Heeltap, and Ship of Fools.

Thomas Halloran is a retired psychologist who studies vision. His poems have appeared in The Literary Review, The Comstock Review, Amelia, and elsewhere.

Lois Marie Harrod’s chapbook Firmament was published by Finishing Line Press in fall 2007. Recently published books include Spelling the World Backward and Put Your Sorry Side Out. She has been awarded three fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the last in 2003.

K.A. Hays’ work has appeared in Hudson Review, Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, and New Orleans Review. She completed an MFA at Brown in 2005. Her first book of poems, Dear Apocalypse, is forthcoming by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2009.

MC Hylands’ poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, Colorado Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Tyrone Jaeger’s work appears in Indiana Review, PRISM, Southeast Review, Descant, Nimrod, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others.

Gerry LaFemina is the author of five collections, including Zarathustra in Love—a collection of prose poems. His latest book, The Parakeets of Brooklyn, received the 2003 Bordighera Prize.

Peter LaSalle’s latest book is a story collection, Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and in 2005 he received the Award for Distinguished Prose from the Antioch Review.

Elinor Mattern’s work has been published in Washington Square, Without Haloes, Footwork: Paterson Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear, 25 Women’s Perspectives, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and received that program’s Director’s Award in Poetry in 2001.

Nicole Melanson lives in Sydney with her husband and their two children. She writes both poetry and fiction, and recently received a grant from the Australian Council for the Arts.

Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Moon and Mercury and Troubled by an Angel. Her poem “Abu Ghraib Suggests the Isenheim Altarpiece” won the 2006 Ann Stanford Prize.

Michele Newcomb is a native of Ann Arbor, MI. She has poems published or forthcoming in Pearl, Sow’s Ear, Plainsongs, The Ledge, Red Rock Review, Ellipsis, and others.

D. Nurkse’s most recent book, Burnt Island, was published by Knopf in 2005. New work is in The Times Literary Supplement and The New Yorker.

Benjamin Paloff is a poetry editor for Boston Review and an assistant professor of Slavic and comparative literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Modern Review, The New Republic, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and he is the translator, most recently, of Tworki, a novel by Marek Bienczyk (Northwestern University Press, 2008).

Aimee Parkison’s story collection, Woman with Dark Horses, was published by Starcherone Books. She recently won a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship and is working on a novel while teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Umberto Piersanti is considered the poetic voice of post-war Urbino and one of today’s preeminent Italian poets. In 2008, a new collection will be published by Einaudi.

Daniel Polikoff’s collection of poems Dragon Ship was published by Tebot Bach.

Nancy Priff received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She writes fiction and poetry and is a past recipient of a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Doug Ramspeck’s work has appeared in West Branch, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Roanoke Review, Seneca Review, Rattle, Rhino, and Hunger Mountain.

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Samuel Saint Thomas was born in a gritty Pennsylvania steel town to Jazz musicians who both became Pentecostal preachers. A former founding member of a religious order, Samuel has since earned his BA in both Philosophy and English from East Stroudsburg University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Besides his various creative interests, he teaches composition at a small suburban university and is restoring a Chinese Tea House in the mountains outside New York City.

Tomaz Salamun lives in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in America. His new book Woods and Chalices will be published by Harcourt in Spring 2008.

Paul Schlueter, author (The Novels of Doris Lessing, Shirley Ann Grau) and editor/co-editor (An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, A Small Personal Voice: Essays, Reviews, Interviews by Doris Lessing, and other books), was Harry T. Moore’s first doctoral student at Southern Illinois University and met Caresse Crosby through Moore. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Ann Snodgrass’s recent work has appeared in The Harvard Review, American Letters & Commentary, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among others. Her chapbook, No Description of the World, was published last year by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Cambridge and teaches at M.I.T.

Katherine Soniat’s The Fire Setters is available through The Literary Review/Web Del Sol On-line Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize (Iowa UP). Poems are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, and Tiferet.

Alfonsina Storni was born in Switzerland but lived most of her life in Argentina. She is considered one of the preeminent modernist voices in Latin America poetry, although her work has received scant attention in this country.

Susan Thomas has won the Iowa Poetry Award from Iowa Review and the Ann Stanford Prize from University of Southern California. Her collection, State of Blessed Gluttony, won the Benjamin Saltman Prize. Her recent work has appeared in Mississippi Review, MARGIE, Paterson Review, and Potomac Review. Finishing Line Press is publishing a new chapbook, Voice of the Empty Notebook.

César Vallejo Mendoza was born in Peru in 1892 and moved to Paris in 1923. He died in 1938. He produced a variety of works—novels, plays, reportage—but is known for his innovative poems, two volumes of which were published during his lifetime—Heraldos Negros and Trilce—and two posthumously—Poemas Humanos and España, aparte de mí este caliz. His work has grown in stature with the passage of the years, and today, though his hermeticism is a deterrent to widespread fame, his work is considered among the most important in the Latin American canon.

Laura van den Berg attends the MFA program at Emerson College, where she is the editor-in-chief of Redivider and a Ploughshares staff member. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, The Northwest Review, The Louisville Review, The Greensboro Review, The Indiana Review, American Short Fiction, and One Story, among others. Her stories have also received awards from Glimmer Train and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her first collection of stories is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2009.

Tom Whalen’s stories have appeared recently or are forthcoming in AGNI, Fiction International, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, Marginalia, Northwest Review, and The Texas Review.

Jonah Winter’s poems have appeared in Octopus and The Paris Review.

Paul-Victor Winters is a writer, high school teacher, and occasional adjunct professor living in southern New Jersey. Recent poems appear in Tattoo Highway and Philadelphia Stories.

Charles Wyatt is the author of three books of fiction and a poetry chapbook. He has poems forthcoming in Nimrod, Artful Dodge, and The Beloit Poetry Journal.