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"NYC, 2005" (0509.5458) by Roger Bruhn, from "The New York Series, 2002-2006"

Roger Bruhn was recently the recipient of the 2008 Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts in Lincoln, NE. He is represented by Modern Arts Midwest. His work has been collected by all of the major museums in Nebraska.

Prose

Evelyn Funda's creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, South Dakota Review, and Green Hills Literary Lantern and in the book Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Mariner Books). She is currently at work on a memoir about her rural family's relation to the land.

Gaynell Gavin is the author of Intersections (Main Street Rag). Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fourth Genre, and North Dakota Quarterly. Her work is forthcoming in the anthologies Of Risk, Courage, and Women (U of North Texas P) and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (Bellevue Literary P).

Paul Kilgore lives with his wife and two daughters in Duluth, Minnesota. His work has appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. He is a past winner of Minnesota Monthly's Tamarack Award for Short Fiction.

Gregory S. Phillian's recent fiction has been published in South Carolina Review, Chattahoochee Review, Chicago Quarterly, and River Styx.

Mitch Wieland is the author of the novel Willy Slater's Lane (Southern Methodist University P). His short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Shenandoah, the Sewanee Review, and others. He is the founding editor of the Idaho Review and is the recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. He has a new collection forthcoming from SMU from which this story is taken.

Poetry

Christianne Balk is the author of Bindweed (Macmillan P) and Desiring Flight (Purdue UP). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Under the Rock Umbrella, among other magazines and anthologies. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.

Sharon Balter is a physician and epidemiologist at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Her poems have appeared in 5 AM.

Hadara Bar-Nadav's book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House) was awarded the Margie Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and others.

Erinn Batykefer is currently the Stadler Poetry Fellow at Bucknell University where she is associate editor of West Branch. Her first collection, Allegheny, Monongahela, won the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Prize and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and Threepenny Review, among others.

Andrew Becraft lives in Seattle, Washington. He blogs about LEGO and works for a large software company in Redmond. Although his work appears in twenty-four languages on computers worldwide, this is his first publication in a literary journal.

Marvin Bell's latest book of poems, Mars Being Red, was published in 2007 by Copper Canyon Press. He now teaches for the brief-residency MFA program based in Oregon at Pacific University.

Bruce Bond's most recent books include Radiography (BOA Editions), The Throats of Narcissus (U of Arkansas P), Cinder (Etruscan P), and Blind Rain (Louisiana State UP). He is currently the poetry editor for American Literary Review.

Annie Boutelle was born and raised in Scotland. She is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry (Bucknell UP). Her second book of poems, Nest of Thistles (Northeastern UP) won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize in 2005. She has been published in the Georgia Review, Hudson Review, and Poetry.

Allen Braden has received fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust of Washington State. His book, A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood, is forthcoming in the VQR poetry series from the University of Georgia Press.

Jenna M. Coughlin resides in Chicago, where she teaches second grade in the Englewood neighborhood. This is her first publication.

James Crews completed his MFA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Other work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2006, Columbia, and Fourteen Hills. The poems in this issue are from his chapbook, One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes, based on the life and work of artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (forthcoming from Parallel P).

Toi Derricotte has published four books of poetry, including her most recent, Natural Birth (Firebrand Books). Her memoir The Black Notebooks was a past recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Award; it was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Annie Finch's most recent books are a book of poetry, Calendars (Tupelo P), and a book of essays, The Body of Poetry (U of Michigan P). She is the director of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.

Mary Fontana is a graduate student in biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the Seattle Review, the Journal of the Linnaean Society, and the Seneca Review.

Alice Friman's new collection of poems is The Book of the Rotten Daughter from BkMk Press. Her latest book, Vinculum, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press. New work appears in Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Subtropics, and others. She is poet in residence at Georgia College & State University.

Susan Goslee's poems have recently appeared in Indiana Review, Third Coast, and Hayden's Ferry Reivew. She is an assistant professor at Idaho State University.

Lola Haskins's work has appeared in the Atlantic, Georgia Review, and London Review of Books, among other places. Her most recent collection of poetry is Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions). She has also published books of prose: Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters P) and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook).

Maurice Manning is from Kentucky. His third collection of poems, Bucolics (Harcourt), was published in 2007.

Constance Merritt is the author of two poetry collections, Blessings and Inclemencies (Louisiana State UP, 2007) and A Protocol for Touch (U of North Texas P).

B. Z. Niditch is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and teacher. His work has been published in the Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Nancy Pagh's first collection of poems, No Sweeter Fat, won the Autumn House book prize. Her work has appeared in the Bellingham Review, Rattle, Poetry Northwest, and the Fourth River among others. She lives in Bellingham, WA.

Marge Piercy has published seventeen books of poetry, including her most recent, The Crooked Inheritance (Knopf). She has also written seventeen novels; the most recent, Sex Wars, is now available in paperback from Harper Perennial. Her memoir Sleeping with Cats is also available from Harper Perennial. Piercy's work has been translated into sixteen languages, and she has a CD available, Louder We Can't Hear You Yet, which contains her political and feminist poetry.

Carol Potter has recent poems in AGNI (online), Field, and the Journal. Her fourth book, Otherwise Obedient, has been published by Red Hen Press and is a LBGT poetry finalist in the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards.

Jim Reese's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the New York Quarterly and South Dakota Review, among others. He is the author of Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham (Grizzly P, 2002) and The Jive (Morpo P, 2004). His most recent collection of poetry is These Trespasses (Backwaters P, 2005).

Nina Shevchuk-Murray is a Ukrainian-born poet, translator, and scholar of literature. She is the editor, with Ladette Randolph, of The Big Empty: An Anthology of Nebraska Nonfiction (U of Nebraska P, 2007).

Pamela Sutton's poetry has appeared in the Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, and American Poetry Review, and her work has been collected in the Best American Poetry.

Reviews

Celia Lisset Alvarez writes and teaches in Miami, Florida. Her book Shapeshifting is available from Spire Press.

Erin Flanagan is the author of the short-story collection The Usual Mistakes (U of Nebraska P). Her stories have appeared in Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Laurel Review, and the Best New American Voices anthology series. She has held scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences.

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.

Matthew Ladd's work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, FENCE, and 32Poems, among other places. He has reviews forthcoming in West Branch, the American Scholar, and Birmingham Poetry Review.

Patti M. Marxsen has had work in the Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, the New England Antiques Journal, the French Review, and Fourth Genre. Her collection of travel essays, Island Journeys: Exploring the Legacy of France, was recently published by Alondra Press. She was a finalist for the 2008 Paris Prize for Fiction. She lives in Switzerland.

Peter Wolfe is the Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His most recent book is Havoc in the Hub: A Reading of George V. Higgens.

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