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Contributors' Notes

Kim Addonizio 's books include four collections of poetry, most recently What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W. Norton); two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street from Simon & Schuster; and The Poet's Companion:  A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton). Her awards include two NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is online at www.kimaddonizio.com  

T.J. Beitelman 's stories have appeared in Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, and several other literary magazines. He has received a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and edits Red Mountain Review.  

Michael Blumenthal 's seventh book of poems, And, will be published by BOA Editions in early 2009. Formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is the author, most recently, of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and of Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, 1999). His novel Weinstock Among the Dying won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the German, French and Hungarian, he currently holds the Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, and spends summers at his house in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary.  

Paula Bohince is the author of Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande Books, 2008). Individual poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Nation, Slate, The Yale Review, and elsewhere . In 2007, she was the University of Mississippi's first Summer Poet-in-Residence.  

Emma Bolden is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as VERSE, MARGIE, POOL, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, 32Poems, and the Green Mountains Review . Her first chapbook, How to Recognize a Lady, was published by Toadlily Press as part of Edge by Edge. Her second chapbook, The Mariner's Wife, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and teaches English at Auburn University.  

Mary Elizabeth Burroughs lives in Oxford, MS and is at work on an illustrated novel for young adults.   

Alicia Casey holds a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from University of Missouri-Columbia, and recently completed an M.A. in English at Austin Peay State University. She served as the founding Poetry Editor for Streetlight Magazine in Charlottesville, VA and as an Editorial Assistant for Zone 3 . She is currently completing her MFA in Poetry at the University of Mississippi, where she was awarded the John and Renee Grisham fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry will appear in Zone 3 in this spring.  

John Casey' s the author of Spartina, winner of the National Book Award, and five other works of fiction. He is also a translator and essayist. He teaches in the University of Virginia's MFA program, and often at the Sewanee Writers' conference.  

Bryn Chancellor 's fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Colorado Review, The Cream City Review, Crazyhorse, and The Fourth River . Her honors include a fellowship and a project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the David R. Sokolov Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is currently in the M.F.A. program at Vanderbilt University.  

Christi Clancy's work has appeared in Hobart, Glimmer Train, The Cream City Review, and elsewhere. She's working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Blas Falconer is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University, where he serves as the poetry editor of Zone 3 Magazine/Zone 3 Press. He has recently published a chapbook, The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press), and a book-length collection of poems, A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press). He lives in Nashville.

Matthew Fiander received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  When not writing fiction, he regularly contributes music and book reviews to the web magazine PopMatter. 

Nick Flynn 's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France's Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, The Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life," and The New York Times Book Review . His film credits include "field poet" and artistic collaborator on the film "Darwin's Nightmare," which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.

Mathew Goldberg was born in Washington, D.C.  He received a degree in Electrical and Biomedical engineering from Duke University and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Arkansas.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Passages North, The Southeast Review, and Alligator Junipe.  

Miriam Bird Greenberg has taught ESL in rural Japan, flown kites in Tiananmen Square, and eaten marmot on a train traveling through Mongolia. She is finishing her MFA at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers, and has work forthcoming in Smartish Pace and DIAGRAM.  

Susan Gubernat 's first book of poems, Flesh, won the Marianne Moore Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press. She is an opera librettist (Korczak's Orphans; composer Adam Silverman) and an Associate Professor in the English Department at California State University, East Bay.

Katie Hartsock grew up just south of Youngstown, Ohio. She recently graduated from the University of Michigan's MFA program. She is a recipient of the Helen Zell Fellowship and the 2007 Hopwood Graduate Poetry award. Her work has been published in Hanging Loose and Michigan Quarterly Review. 

Christopher Hayes is a second year MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Mississippi, originally from Clarksville, Tennessee. As an undergraduate, he received the Rachel Maddux award in poetry from Austin Peay State University. He recently attended the Sewanee Writers' Conference as an MFA scholar. His poems are forthcoming in Zone 3, Two Review, and Red Clay Review.  

Connie Hershey, of Concord, Massachusetts, is a poet and book artist.  Recent poems have been published in Perihelion, Atlanta Review, American Writing, Worcester Review, Onthebus and in seven anthologies. 

Andrew Hudgins teaches at Ohio State University. He's written six books of poetry, the most recent being Ecstatic in the Poison.  

Randall Kenan is the author of a novel, A Visitation of Spirits ;  two works of non-fiction, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and The Fire This Time,  a young adult biography of James Baldwin; and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award).  Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Dos Passos Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Prix de Rome.  He is associate professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill.  

Lida Margaret Macdonnell is a graduate of Drury College. The photos pictured are part of a series she took of her college friends. She resided in Salem, Oregon with her husband until her death in 1949.  

Wendy Miles's work appears in Southern Poetry Review, The Dos Passos Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Hawaii Review, The Comstock Review and The Pedestal Magazine . A finalist for Southern Poetry Review's 2007 Guy Owen Prize, Wendy is an assistant professor of English at Randolph College in Virginia.  

Stephen Murabito is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus. His short stories have appeared in such places as North American Review, Antietam Review, Brooklyn Review, and Paper Street . He has been an NEA Fellow in Poetry, and his poems have appeared in such places as Minnesota Review, Mississippi Review, Poet Lore, and 5AM . He is the author of A Little Dinner Music, The Oswego Fugue, and Communion of Asiago. 

Melissa Nurczynski teaches Professional Writing at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Additionally, she writes for national magazines such as Budget Travel and Newsweek and under the name of Melissa Marshall. She has also contributed to print travel guides such as The Rough Guide to the USA and Mobile Travel's Guide to Traveling with Your Pets . She lives in Philadelphia with her Chihuahua, Maximilian.

Jack Pendarvis has written two books of short stories and a forthcoming novel called Awesome, from which "Blue Christmas" is excerpted. He is the 2007-2008 writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi.  

Gregory Plemmons is delighted to be a recipient of the Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. He received his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina and his MFA from Bennington College. He is currently Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his partner James Larkins. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices . He is currently at work on a novel and is the owner of two decidedly non-exotic canines, Bocephus and Suzie Q.  

Colin Rafferty took piano lessons for three years as a child, and was about to move from pieces like "The Happy Dog" to actual classical repertoire when he stopped. He now teaches at the University of Alabama, where he is currently at work on a collection of essays about monuments and memorials. He's grateful to Josh Parmenter for a late-night phone call explaining the Berg Sonata.

Jonathan Rice 's poems have recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, Potomac Review, and is forthcoming in New Delta Review . His poem series, "Constellarium" was selected for the AWP Intro to Journals Project for 2005-2006. He received his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he currently teaches writing.

Jesse Rowlett is the reigning underwater basket weaving champion in his hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee. When he's not holding his breath, he works mostly in charcoal and pen and ink.

Gary Short is the author of three volumes of poetry and three chapbooks. Flying Over Sonny Liston, his second book, won the Western States Book Award, and he has work in the current Pushcart Anthology. He has served as poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review and Shankpainter. A past Stegner fellow at Stanford and fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he has been on the faculty at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Old Dominion University, and the University of California, Davis. He was a guest lecturer at the University of Tirana in Albania, and he recently lived four years in Guatemala.

Jake Adam York was raised in northeast Alabama. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. . His first book, Murder Ballads, was published in 2005 by Elixir Press. His second collection, The Murmuration of Starlings, is scheduled to appear in April 2008. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review . Along with students and colleagues, he edits the Copper Nickel.