Contributors
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Karen Kunc uses travel sketchbooks as extra eyes where she captures impressions and experiences by close, slow looking, and learning what her hand translates through drawings of the odd – but interesting – details that hold her visual interest. She has a collection of small sketchbooks from sojourns in Italy, Finland, Japan, Egypt, New York, from which these excerpts are selected for Prairie Schooner.
Karen Kunc was born in Omaha, Nebraska, received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her MFA from the Ohio State University. She is a Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her prints and artist books have been shown recently in solo exhibitions in Nebraska, Kansas City, and Krakow, Poland. Her work has been included in numerous important group exhibitions, including: The Abstract Impulse, National Academy Museum, New York; 5th International Triennial of Graphic Art 2007, Prague; Book as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Sublime Present, Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Kunc’s works are represented in many collections, including: the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Prose
Marc Fitten is the editor of the Chattahoochee Review. Lately he has spent most of his time working on a novel, Valeria’s Last Stand.
Paul Griner’s third book, a novel entitled The Front, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in the spring of 2009. His work has appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Playboy, and Bomb. ‘‘Oranges, Patas, Puddles’’ is an excerpt from his novel, Fifty Pairs of Starlings.
Paula W. Peterson’s book of short stories, Women in the Grove, is available from Beacon Press. Her collection of essays, Penitent, with Roses (UP of New England), won the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading 2004, the Iowa Review, Nimrod, Carolina Quarterly, and the Greensboro Review. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Colette Sartor has edited numerous fiction and nonfiction projects and served as senior fiction editor for Pif Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Review. She teaches writing at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles.
Poetry
Caleb Adler is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati. His work has appeared in Synapse, CNS Spectrums, Neuropsychopharmacology, American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Spork.
Robyn Anspach graduated from the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Third Coast.
Becca Barniskis’s work has appeared in the Laurel Review, Red Rock Review, and the Northwest Review. She has been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board literary fellowship for her poetry.
John Bensko has published three books of poetry, most recently The Iron City (U of Illinois P). He has also published a collection of stories, Sea Dogs (Graywolf P).
Paula Bohince’s poems have appeared in Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Field, Shenandoah, and Best New Poets 2005, among other magazines. She has won the Grolier Poetry Prize and lives in Pennsylvania.
Todd Boss is the director of external affairs at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. His work appears widely. His first collection, Yellowrocket, will be published by W. W. Norton this year.
Jericho Brown’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Callaloo, jubilat, New England Review, and Post Road. His first book, Please, will be published by Western Michigan University’s New Issues Poetry and Prose in the fall of 2008.
Christopher Burawa won the Cleveland State University First Book Competition for The Small Mystery of Lapses. He was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship and a Witter Bynner Translation Residency and most recently was awarded a 2007 NEA Literature in Translation Fellowship.
S. Isabel Burgess’s work has appeared in the Claremont Review, Grain Magazine, the Malahat Review, and PRISM International.
Chard deNiord is the author of three books of poetry, including his most recent Night Mowing (U of Pittsburg P). His poems have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and Ploughshares.
Barbara Duffey’s poems have appeared in the Indiana Review, Blue Mesa Review, and Epicenter. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a Vice-Presidential Fellow in the Ph.D. program in poetry writing at the University of Utah.
Brent Fisk’s work appears in Rattle, Bitter Oleander, Thema, and Cider Press Review. He is currently working toward his teaching certification.
Rebecca Morgan Frank’s work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Calyx, and the Georgia Review. She is the cofounder and editor of the online journal Memorious. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chris Gavaler’s work appears in Shenandoah, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Black Warrior Review, and The Toronto Star. His suspense novel, Pretend I’m Not Here, is available from HarperCollins.
Daniel Gutstein’s first book, non/fiction, is a mixed-genre collection due out shortly from Edge Books. His work has appeared in more than four dozen journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry. Currently he runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Christina Hutchins has won the Montalvo Biennial Poetry Prize and two Barbara Deming Awards. Her work appears in the New Republic, the Southern Review, the Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection, Intaglio, is available from Kent State University Press. She and Caleb Adler have a chapbook, Emuseum, forthcoming from Dancing Girl P. ‘‘Bird Fever’’ is from that collection.
Julie Larios’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Georgia Review, the Threepenny Review, ZYZZYVA, and Best American Poetry. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Matt Mason’s first book Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know won the 2007 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and is available from Backwater Press. He is also the author of the chapbook When the Bough Breaks. He teaches workshops for high school students in Nebraska and Iowa.
Judith Claire Mitchell is an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Creative Writing Program. She is the author of the novel The Last Day of the War.
Ander Monson is the author of a book of essays, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf), a book of fiction, Other Electricities (Sarabande), and a book of poems, Vacationland (Tupelo). He lives in Michigan where he edits DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press.
Greg Rappleye’s second book of poems, A Path Between Houses (U of Wisconsin P), won the Brittingham Prize. His work has recently appeared in the Greensboro Review, Bellingham Review, and the Southern Poetry Review.
Len Roberts’s ninth book of poetry, The Disappearing Trick, is available from the University of Illinois Press. His book of translations of Hungarian poet Sándor Csoóri, Before and After the Fall (BOA Editions), is also available.
Dana Roeser received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her first book of poems, Beautiful Motion, was published by Northeastern University Press as the winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Northwest Review, Barrow Street, and Shenandoah.
Hillel Schwartz’s work has appeared in Field, Fiddlehead, and Beloit Poetry Review. He is the cotranslator of a book of Korean poetry by Ko Un, Abiding Places: Korea North and South (Tupelo P).
William Sheldon is the author of Retrieving Old Bones (Woodley). He lives with his family in Hutchinson, Kansas, where he teaches and writes.
Peggy Shumaker’s nonfiction book, Just Breathe Normally, is now available from the University of Nebraska Press. Her most recent book of poetry is Blaze, a collaboration with Alaskan painter Kesler Woodward.
Judith Slater’s work appears in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and has been chosen by Ted Kooser for his American Life in Poetry website. She lives in Buffalo, New York, where she works as a clinical psychologist.
Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of The Love of Unreal Things, Unbound & Branded (Finishing Line P), and Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008), chosen by David Baker for the ABZ First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Arts & Letters, and the North American Review, among other magazines. She is an assistant professor in the English Department at South Dakota State University in Brookings, where she lives with her husband and young son.
Phyllis Stowell is the author of Arc of Grief and Shield/Bouclier. She is the coeditor of Appetite: Food and Metaphor and An Anthology of Women Poets (BOA Editions).
Steven Winn’s work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, PRISM International, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review. He is the arts and culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle.
George Witte’s poems have appeared most recently in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and Virginia Quarterly. His book, The Apparitioners, is available from Three Rail Press.
Valerie Wohlfeld’s Thinking the World Visible won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Antioch Review, New England Review, and Seneca Review, among other magazines.
Reviews
Nicholas Benson’s work has appeared in the New England Review and Seneca Review, among other journals. His translation of Attilio Bertolucci’s Winter Journey is available from Parlor Press. He is currently translating The Arsonist by Aldo Palazzeschi with the help of an NEA fellowship.
Michael Reid Busk is a Ph.D. student in the University of Nebraska’s English Department. His work appears or is forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, Night Train, Lake Effect, and other journals. He is currently writing a book about a traveling baseball team with Lucas Stock.
Carrie Shipers received her MFA from the Ohio State University. Recent poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Barrow Street, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Philip Raisor’s poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Contemporary Literature, Tar River Poetry, and the Writer’s Chronicle. His most recent book is Outside Shooter: A Memoir.
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