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"NYC, 2005" [0509.4052] from "The New York Series 2002–2006"

Roger Bruhn is a longtime Lincoln artist who received the 2008 Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts. He is represented by Modern Arts Midwest and has work in the collections of all the major museums in the state.

Prose

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels including Raw Silk, Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone. Bridge of Sand will appear from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2009. Among her recent works are the plays Medea with Child, Sweepstakes, and Parts of Speech; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; the second edition of Imaginative Writing; and the seventh edition of Writing Fiction. She is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Paul Eggers teaches creative writing at California State University, Chico. He's the author of a novel, Saviors (Harcourt Brace), and two short-fiction collections, How the Water Feels (Southern Methodist UP) and The Departure Lounge (Ohio State UP).

Lydia Peelle's work has appeared in Best New American Voices 2007 as well as in Epoch, the Sun, and other magazines. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and recently received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Poetry

Joelle Biele is the author of White Summer, winner of the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse and Gulf Coast.

John Canaday's first book of poems, The Invisible World, won the 2001 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is the author of a critical study, The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. The poems in this issue are from “Critical Assembly,” a series of poems in the voices of the scientists, spouses, laborers, locals, and military personnel involved in the Manhattan Project.

Felecia Caton Garcia holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD in American studies from the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in journals such as Indiana Review, Blue Mesa Review, and the Northwest Review.

Karen Craigo, editor in chief of Mid-American Review, is the author of Stone for an Eye, published by Kent State University Press. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, and others.

Mary Crow, poet and translator, is Colorado's poet laureate. Her books of poetry include I Have Tasted the Apple, Borders, and three chapbooks. Her poetry translations are Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets, From the Country of Nevermore (Jorge Teillier), Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems (Roberto Juarroz), and Engravings Torn from Reality (Olga Orozco). Her honors include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts as well as three Fulbright awards.

Gary Fincke's latest collection, The Fire Landscape, has just been published by the University of Arkansas Press. His recent poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Literary Review.

Paula Goldman's poetry book The Great Canopy won the Gival Poetry Award 2004. Her poems have appeared in the Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, the North American Review, and Cream City Review. She has won INKWELL's (Manhattanville College) poetry competition and the Louisiana Literature Award for poetry. Her poem "In the Musée d'Orsay" recently appeared in Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, published by Knopf.

Jennifer Gresham received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Maryland. Her poems have recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Ledge. She is the author of Diary of a Cell, winner of the Steel Toe Books poetry prize.

Susan Elizabeth Howe's first collection, Stone Spirits, won the publication award of the Redd Center for Western Studies. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the New Yorker, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and other journals. She is a reviewer and contributing editor for Tar River Poetry. She and her husband, Cless Young, live in a small town in central Utah; they have also taught and traveled in Europe.

Paul Hunter's poems have appeared in Alaska Fisherman's Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, and Poetry, among others. He has published poetry books and chapbooks, and operates Wood Works, a letterpress publisher.

Jessica Johnson's poems and reviews have appeared in Burnside Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Mid-American Review, the New Republic, and the Paris Review, among other journals. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Keetje Kuipers has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soap-Stone. She was also the recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Willow Springs, among others. You can hear her read her work at the online audio archive From the Fishouse. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

Lance Larsen's recent collection, In All Their Animal Brilliance, recently received the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. He is also the author of Erasable Walls, and his work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere.

Hailey Leithauser has recent or upcoming work in Cave Wall, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, POOL, Subtropics, and other journals.

Naton Leslie is the author of a book of narrative nonfiction, That Might Be Useful (Lyon Press), and six volumes of poetry, including Egress (Word-Tech) and Emma Saves Her Life (WordTech). A collection of his short fiction, Marconi's Dream and Other Stories, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Paul Martin's poems have been published widely in journals, including Boulevard, New Letters, Nimrod, Passages North, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and Southern Humanities Review. His book-length manuscript, Closing Distances, twice a finalist in the National Poetry Series, is forthcoming from Backwaters Press.

R. F. McEwen has had work in Kansas Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and Prairie Schooner. He has work forthcoming in the Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. He recently coproduced a two-CD collection of the stories of Joe Heaney, the noted Irish sean nos singer and storyteller. A professional tree trimmer since 1964, he has also been an English teacher since 1973 and is now a professor of English at Chadron State College in Chadron, NE.

Robert Parham has work forthcoming in Shenandoah, Folio, Oxford American, and Southern Review. Other work has appeared in the Georgia Review, Southern Humanities Review, Rolling Stone, Atlanta Magazine, and other journals. His chapbook What Part Motion Plays in the Equation of Love won the Palanquin competition.

Dawn Potter is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently How the Crimes Happened, forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. Tracing Paradise, her memoir about copying out all of Paradise Lost word for word, will be released by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2009. She is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and lives in Harmony, Maine.

Richard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He has published three books of poems, most recently Famous Persons We Have Known (Eastern Washington UP) and The Untested Hand (Backwaters P). A fourth, Other Americas, is due out in 2009. He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. He directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

David Rossi received his PhD in English from the University of Houston, later completing an MFA in creative writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He currently serves as program manager for transitional studies and instructional support in reading and writing at Lone Star College–CyFair, where he developed the continuing education course "Writers Circle."

C. J. Sage resides in Rio Del Mar, California, where she works as a Realtor. She also edits the National Poetry Review and teaches poetry at De Anza College. Her books include Odyssea (WordTech) and Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (Dream Horse P). She is the editor of And We the Creatures (Dream Horse P). Her poems appear in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, the Antioch Review, and the Threepenny Review, among others.

Shelley Savren's book, The Common Fire, was published by Red Hen Press. She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her work is widely published in literary magazines, including Solo, Prairie Schooner, Santa Clara Review, Main Street Rag, and Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. Her awards include nine California Arts Council Artist in Residence grants, two National Endowment for the Arts regional grants, four artist fellowships from the City of Ventura, and first place in the John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award. She lives in Ventura, California, with her husband and teaches writing full-time at Oxnard College.

Maxine Scates is the author of two books of poems, Black Loam and Toluca Street; she is also editor with David Trinidad of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Tin House, Poetry London, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2005, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is a Chancellor's Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Meg Shevenock's poetry was selected for Best New Poets 2006. Her work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Passages North, and other journals. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Florida and is currently pursuing another MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University.

Kelly Sievers has work forthcoming in the anthology A Call to Nursing (Kaplan Publishing). Recent work has appeared in Rattle, Windfall, and Ekphrasis as well as in the anthologies Vacations (Outrider P) and The Poetry of Nursing (Kent State UP). She is a nurse anesthetist in Portland, Oregon.

Floyd Skloot's Selected Poems: 1970–2005 was published by Tupelo Press. His sixth collection of new poems, The Snow's Music, appeared from Louisiana State University Press in 2008. The University of Nebraska Press recently published his memoir, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life.

Catherine Staples's poems have appeared in the Southern Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, Commonweal, Michigan Quarterly, and others. She lives in Devon, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three children and teaches in the honors program at Villanova University.

Alison Stine's first full-length book, Ohio Violence, won the Vassar Miller Prize and is forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press. She has work upcoming in Agni and 32 Poems.

Susan Terris's 2008 book is Contrariwise (Time Being Books). Recent work has appeared in Field, Denver Quarterly, Volt, the New Orleans Review, and Ploughshares. She has a poem in The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses. She is poetry editor with Ilya Kaminsky of In Posse Review.

Bradford Tice is working on his PhD at the University of Tennessee. His poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, the American Scholar, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Crab Orchard Review as well as in Best American Short Stories 2008.

William Trowbridge's poetry collections are Enter Dark Stranger, O Paradise, Flickers, and The Complete Book of Kong. His poems have also appeared in such periodicals as the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, the Georgia Review, Poetry, and New Letters. He lives in the Kansas City area and teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA writing program.

Diane Wakoski is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Butcher's Apron (Black Sparrow P). She received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America for her selected poems in Emerald Ice, which was reprinted by Godine Press.

Rachel Webster edits universeofpoetry.org, the online anthology of international poetry. She earned her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and received a Young Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have recently been published in Poetry, the Southern Review, the Madison Review, and Blackbird. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her partner, Richard, and their baby daughter.

Reviews

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His collections of poetry include Instruments of the Bones, A Step in the Dark, and History.

Rebecca Morgan Frank's poems have been published in such journals as the Georgia Review, the Cincinnati Review, Sou'wester, and Calyx. She is cofounder and editor of the online journal Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction.

Merrill Leffler has published two collections of poetry, Partly Pandemonium, Partly Love and Take Hold, and guest edited The Changing Orders: Poetry from Israel for Poet Lore. His most recent books are a new collection, Mark the Music, and a book of translations of the work of the late Isreali poet Eytan Eytan (with Moshe Dor) titled A Guest in Your Own Body. He has taught literature at the University of Maryland and the U.S. Naval Academy, and he was a senior science writer at the University of Maryland Sea Grant Program.

Dave Madden is a senior fiction reader at Prairie Schooner. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tampa Review, Indiana Review, Third Coast, Mid-American Review, Hobart, and other journals. He's the recipient of a Sherwood Anderson Prize in fiction, an Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Award in nonfiction, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the 2008 Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he co-edits the Cupboard, a literary pamphlet.

Ryan Rase McCray's creative nonfiction has received contest honors from Gulf Coast, PRISM International, and the Iowa Review. More of his reviews appear in Rain Taxi and American Book Review.

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