Contributors
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Prose
Jane Delury’s stories have appeared in journals and magazines including Story Quarterly and the Sun. She holds an MA in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and is on the faculty of the University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program.
Stephen Lehmann is the translator of Stephen Wackwitz’s memoir An Invisible Country (Paul Dry) and the coauthor, with Marion Faber, of Rudolf Serkin: A Life (Oxford). He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Shawna Lemay is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Blue Feast. She has recently completed a book of essays called Calm Things. She lives in Edmonton with Rob Lemay, a visual artist, and their daughter, Chloe.
Steven Schwartz has new stories appearing or forthcoming in Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, and Crazyhorse. He is this year’s winner of the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction from the Southern Review.
Margot Singer’s prose has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, AGNI, the Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, and the Sun. Her story from this issue will appear in her collection The Pale of Settlement, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, to be published by the University of Georgia Press in October of this year.
Terese Svoboda’s essay was the keynote address for the Nebraska Book Festival. Her most recent novel is Tin God (U of Nebraska P); her most recent book of poetry is Treason (Zoo P). Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, a memoir about her uncle from Grant, Nebraska, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2008.
Stephan Wackwitz, born in 1952 in Stuttgart, Germany, works as director of the Goethe Institut Bratislava. His novels and essays are published by S. Fisher in Germany. An Invisible Country was published by Paul Dry Books, translated by Stephen Lehmann.
Poetry
Marilyn Annucci was a poetry award winner in the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars contest, which sent her to St. Petersburg, Russia, for a month, and she won first place in the 2004 Maize Prize for Short Fiction, sponsored by the Writers’ Center of Indiana. She is the author of a chapbook, Luck (Parallel).
Valerie Bandura’s poems have appeared in River Styx, Third Coast, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, the Greensboro Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore and elsewhere. Her manuscript, On Fire Under Water, has been a finalist for the Akron, Philip Levine and New Issues Poetry Prizes. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Emily Beyer lives in Seattle.
Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he edits Poems & Plays. His most recent book of poetry, a collection of apologias, is Let Me Explain (Iris, 2006). His work also appears in Best American Poetry 2006.
Lynn Aarti Chandhok’s first book of poems, The View from Zero Bridge, won the 2006 Philip Levine Prize and will be published by Anhinga Press in the fall of 2007. She won the 2006 Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review. Her poems have appeared in the New Republic, Tin House, the Hudson Review, and the Missouri Review. She teaches high school literature and creative writing in Brooklyn, New York.
James Cihlar’s poems have appeared in the anthologies Regrets Only and Aunties. His book of poems, Undoing, is forthcoming from Little Pear Press.
Lynn Domina is the author of a collection of poetry, Corporal Works, and two reference books. Her recent poetry appears in St. Ann’s Review, Green Mountain Review, Florida Review, Lake Effect, and many other periodicals. She lives in the western Catskill region of New York.
Moira Egan’s first book of poems, Cleave (wwph) was nominated for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year. Recent poems have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Passages North, Poetry, Smartish Pace, and West Branch, among others.
Robert Gibb is the author, most recently, of World Over Water (2007) and The Burning World (2004), both from the University of Arkansas Press.
Lola Haskins’ most recent poetry collection is Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2004). Two prose books appeared in 2007: a poetry advice book (Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life from Backwaters Press), and a book of fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor (Solutions Beginning with A from Modernbook). Her commentaries are regularly broadcast on NPR.
Kathleen Jesme is the author of two books of poetry: Motherhouse (Pleiades), winner of the 2004 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and Fire Eater (U of Tampa P). Her next book, The Little Hour, in which these poems will appear, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press.
Kimberly Johnson’s first poetry collection, Leviathan with a Hook, appeared in 2002, and her second is being completed with the support of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work has appeared recently in the New Yorker, the Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan American Spirituality.
Gregory Maguire is the author of five novels for adults, including Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Mirror, Mirror; Lost; and Son of a Witch, all from HarperCollins. He is also the author of more than a dozen children’s books and is the cofounder of Children’s Literature New England, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization that seeks to raise awareness about the importance of literature in children’s lives.
Wendy Mnookin is a poet living in Newton, Massachusetts. Her most recent book, What He Took (boa Editions), won the New England Poetry Club Award. The poems in this issue are included in The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, which will be published by BOA editions in 2008.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano and Miracle Fruit, both from Tupelo Press. She is a professor of English at the State University of New York–Fredonia.
Anne Pitkin’s work has appeared or is forthcoming most recently in Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the New Orleans Review. Her third collection Accidental Music, which includes these poems, is seeking a publisher. She is an editor of Fine Madness, a poetry magazine.
Alberto Ríos, born in Nogales, Arizona, is the author of nine books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir about growing up on the border called Capirotada. National Book Award finalist and recipient of the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, Ríos teaches at Arizona State University.
Lawrence Rogers is the winner of the 2004 translation prize of Columbia’s Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture for his book Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll (U of California P). His translations have appeared in New Directions, Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva, and other publications.
Mark Sanders is a professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho. His creative prose has been published in such journals as Glimmer Train, South Dakota Review, River Teeth, and Shenandoah. His most recent collection of poetry is Here in the Big Empty from Backwaters Press.
Motomaro Senge (1888–1948) was one of the better-known poets of pre–World War II Japan. His poetry is characterized by a simple, matter-of-fact style that reflects his fascination with nature and the commonplaces of everyday life.
Taije Silverman’s first book, Hours Are Fields, will be published in 2009 by Louisiana State UP.
Floyd Skloot’s most recent book of poems is The End of Dreams (Louisiana State UP). His next collection, The Snow’s Music, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2008. Also forthcoming in 2008 is his memoir The Wink of the Zenith (U of Nebraska P). He lives in Portland, Oregon.
John Witte’s poems in this issue are part of his collection Second Nature, forthcoming from the University of Washington Press in 2008. His last book was The Hurtling (Orchises).
Reviews
Nicholas Benson’s work has appeared in New England Review, Seneca Review, Pequod, and other journals. He is the translator of Attilio Bertolucci’s Winter Journey, published by Free Verse Editions of Parlor Press in 2005.
Daryl Farmer’s work has appeared in South Dakota Review, the Laurel Review, Eclipse, and Isotope. His first book, Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West will be published this spring by the University of Nebraska Press.
Neil Harrison teaches English and creative writing at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska. He has published poems, short stories, and essays in various journals and is the author of the poetry collection In a River of Wind (Bridge Burner’s Publishing). His most recent collection is Into the River Canyon at Dusk (Lone Willow).
Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books) and the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling) and Vocative (Phylum). Recent poems of his have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, and Jacket.
Mihaela Moscaliuc’s reviews appear in TriQuarterly, Georgia Review, Fugue, and Marlboro Review. She has published articles in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Interculturality and Translation, and History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe. Her cotranslations of Romanian poetry appear in Arts and Letters, Mississippi Review, New Letters, and elsewhere.
Todd Robinson received his Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004. Since then, he has taught at Creighton University and in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His poems have appeared in Margie, the Potomac Review, Mankato Poetry Review, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere.
Ron Slate’s The Incentive of the Maggot was nominated for both the Lenore Marshall Prize and for a National Book Critics Circle prize. He is the chief operating officer of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts.
NEWS OF PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
Yehuda Amichai, Open Closed Open, Harcourt, 2006.
Nathalie Anderson, Crawlers, Ashland Poetry P, 2006.
John Ash, The Parthian Stations, Talisman House, 2007.
Herman Asarnow, Glass-Bottom Boat, Higganum Hill, 2007.
Bruce Beasley, The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems, U of Washington P, 2007.
Robin Becker, Domain of Perfect Affection, U of Pittsburgh P, 2006.
Erin Belieu, Black Box, Copper Canyon P, 2006.
Nathaniel Bellows, Why Speak?, W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
Henry Braun, Loyalty, Off the Grid P, 2006.
Gaylord Brewer, Let Me Explain, Iris P, 2006.
Fleda Brown, Reunion, U of Wisconsin P, 2007, winner of the 2007 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.
Robert Olen Butler, Forgiveness, U of Texas P, 2007.
Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection, Paraclete P, 2006.
Robin Chapman, The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, WordTech Ed, 2007; Editor, with Judith Strasser, On Retirement: 75 Poems, U of Iowa P, 2007.
Richard Chess, Third Temple, University of Tampa, 2007.
Michael Chitwood, from Whence, Louisiana State UP, 2007.
Suzanne Cleary, Trick Pear, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2007.
Martha Collins, Blue Front, Graywolf P, 2006.
Bob Cowser, Jr. , Scorekeeping: Essays from Home, U of South Carolina P, 2006.
Tom Daley, Canticles & Inventories, Wyngaerts Hoeck P, 2005.
Patricia Dobler, Collected Poems, Autumn House P, 2005
Stephen Dunn, Everything Else in the World, W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Susan Eisenberg, Blind Spot, Backwaters P, 2006.
Dina Elenbogen, Apples of the Earth, Spuyten Duyvil, 2005.
Jeanne Emmons, The Glove of the World, Backwaters P, 2006.
Anita Feng, Sadie & Mendel, Backwaters P, 2005; winner of the Backwaters Prize.
Kathleen Flenniken, Famous, U of Nebraska P, 2006; winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
Richard Foerster, The Burning of Troy, BOA Ed., 2006.
Jeff Friedman, Black Threads, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2007.
Max Garland, Hunger Wide as Heaven, Cleveland State UP, 2006.
Robert Gibb, World Over Water, U of Arkansas P, 2007.
Diane Glancy, Asylum in the Grasslands, U of Arizona P, 2007.
Albert Goldbarth, Kitchen Sink: New & Selected Poems: 1972-2007, Graywolf P, 2007.
Rigoberto González, Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, Tupelo P, 2006.
Lee Gutkind, Editor, Our Roots are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian American Writers, Other P, 2006.
Judith Hall, translator, Three Trios, Northwestern UP, 2006.
Mark Halperin, Falling Through the Music, U of Notre Dame P, 2007.
Sam Hamill, Avocations, Red Hen P, 2007.
Janice N. Harrington, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, BOA Ed., 2007.
Eloise Klein Healy, The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho, Red Hen P, 2007.
Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.
Elizabeth Holmes, The Playhouse Near Dark, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2007.
Janet Holmes, F2F, U of Notre Dame P, 2006.
Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere, Ohio UP, 2006; Winner of Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.
Susan Hutton, On the Vanishing of Large Creatures, Carnegie Mellon UP, 2007.
Richard Jackson, Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems, Autumn House P, 2004.
Roy Jacobstein, A Form of Optimism, UP of New England, 2006; Winner of the 2006 Samuel French Morse Prize.
Greg Johnson, Women I’ve Known: New and Selected Stories, Ontario Review P, 2007.
Fady Joudah, Translator, The Butterfly’s Burden, Mahmoud Darwish, Copper Canyon P, 2007.
Joy Katz, Editor, with Kevin Prufer, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, U of Illinois P, 2007.
John Keeble, Nocturnal America, U of Nebraska P, 2006; Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.
David Keplinger, The Prayers of Others, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2006.
David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, Louisiana State UP, 2007.
Ursula K. LeGuin, Incredible Good Fortune, Shambhala P, 2007.
Trudy Lewis, The Bones of Garbo, Ohio State UP, 2003; winner of the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.
Moira Linehan, If No Moon, Southern Illinois UP, 2007.
Oscar Mandel, Where is the light? Poems 1955-2005, Spectrum Productions, 2006.
Hilary Masters, Elegy for Sam Emerson, Southern Methodist UP, 2006.
Shara McCallum, Song of Thieves, U of Pittsburgh P, 2003.
John McKernan, Resurrection of the Dust, Backwaters P, 2007.
Leslie Adrienne Miller, Resurrection Trade, Graywolf P, 2007.
Katherine Min, Secondhand World, Knopf, 2006.
Scott Minar, The Palace of Reasons, Mammoth P, 2006.
Jennifer Militello, anchor chain, open sail, Finishing Line P, 2006.
Roger Mitchell, Half/Mask, U of Akron P, 2007.
Anna Monardo,Falling in Love with Natassia, Doubleday, 2006.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, At the Drive-In Volcano, Tupelo P, 2007.
Ed Ochester, Editor, American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology, U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.
Carole Simmons Oles, Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer, U of Arkansas P, 2006.
Linda Pennisi, Suddenly, Fruit, Carolina Wren P, 2006.
Peter Pereira, What’s Written on the Body, Copper Canyon P, 2007.
Robert Peters, with Paul Trachtenberg and Barbara Hauk, Makars’ Dozens, Pearl Ed, 2006.
Jim Peterson, The Bob and Weave, Red Hen P, 2006.
Donald Platt, My Father Says Grace, U of Arkansas P, 2007.
Kim Ponders, The Last Blue Mile, Harper Collins, 2007.
Kevin Prufer, Editor, with Joy Katz, Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, U of Illinois P, 2007.
Bill Rector, Bill, Proem P, 2007.
David Roderick, Blue Colonial, Copper Canyon P, 2006; Winner of the American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize.
Michael J. Rosen, Year of the Dog, U of Texas P, 2007.
Ruth L. Schwartz, Dear Good Naked Morning, Autumn House P, 2007.
Julie Sheehan, Orient Point, W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Richard Shelton, The Last Person to Hear Your Voice, U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.
Reginald Shepherd, Fata Morgana, U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.
Enid Shomer, Tourist Season, Random House, 2007.
Dave Smith, Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry, Louisiana State UP, 2006.
J. David Stevens, Mexico Is Missing and Other Stories, Ohio State UP; 2006, winner of Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
Judith Strasser, Editor, with Robin Chapman, On Retirement: 75 Poems, U of Iowa P, 2007.
Gladys Swan, A Garden amid Fires, BkMk P, 2007.
Robert Sward, God is in the Cracks: A Narrative in Voices, Black Moss P, 2007.
David A. Taylor, Ginseng, the Divine Root, Algonquin P 2006.
Robert Vivian, Mover of Bones, U of Nebraska P, 2006.
William Wallis, Hawk, Stone and Scott Pub, 2006, winner of Benjamin Franklin Award, August 2006.
Julia Wendell, Restalrig, Finishing Line P, 2006.
Michael Waters, Darling Vulgarity, BOA Ed., 2006.
Ellen Doré Watson, This Sharpening, Tupelo P, 2006.
Roger Weingarten, Premature Elegy by Firelight, Longleaf P, 2007.
Miller Williams, Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It, Louisiana State UP, 2006.
Charles Wyatt, Swan of Tuonela, Hanging Loose P 2006.
