Volume 50, Issue 4

Contributors

Will Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1911. He is an acclaimed painter and print maker, who trained at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and the Art Students League of New York. His work has been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in the United States and Canada and is included in many prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In recognition of his New England roots and his commitment to arts education, Barnet has generously given seven paintings (and related preparatory drawings) from My Father’s House to several area colleges, among them the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Smith College Museum of Art, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and Williams College Museum of Art.

Paul Kaidy Barrows holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. His work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Fourteen Hills, and Mizna.

Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama, including The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy (Massachusetts), Eugene O’Neill (Macmillan, Grove, St. Martin’s), and O’Neill’s Shakespeare (Michigan). He is the Theater Editor of the Massachusetts Review.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1972, Hayan Charara lived for many years in New York City before moving to Texas. He is the author of two poetry books, The Alchemist’s Diary and The Sadness of Others, and editor of Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the NEA, and a woodworker.

Olivia Clare‘s poems are published or forth coming in Poetry, Southern Review, FIELD, The London Magazine, and other journals. She was the 2008-2009 Olive B. O’Connor Fellow at Colgate University.

Andrew Coburn is the author of numerous short stories and thirteen novels, three made into French films. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts, with his wife, Casey, who teaches writing at a women’s jail.

Lucinda Harrison Coffman, a native Kentuckian currently living in Louisville, holds graduate degrees in fiction and playwriting. Her short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Kansas Quarterly, 13th Moon, Primavera, and other literary journals. “The Dream Lover” (first published in West Branch) was selected for the 2005 edition of New Stories from the South.

Coralie Del Roble Duchesne lives in Montreal, Canada, where she arrived after living in many countries. Her plays Marrakesh and Electric Moon over Nowhere Street have been performed in Montreal. Her stories have appeared in journals both in the UK and in Canada. She has fond memories of Boston so is happy to see her story in the Massachusetts Review.

Brion Dulac teaches in Western Massachusetts.

Thomas Dumm is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. His most recent book, Loneliness As a Way of Life, was published by Harvard University Press.

D.M. Gordon‘s prize-winning short stories and poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Nimrod, Northwest Review, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She is founder of a weekly public forum on contemporary poetry and other community literary programs, and is the senior poetry editor of the Patchwork Journal. She is currently working on a novel, which has been shortlisted for the Pirates Alley Faulkner Award for novel-in-progress, and which also earned her a nomination for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant.

Sonia Greenfield is a poet, wife, English instructor, bartender, and, most recently, mother. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including the Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, and the Sycamore Review. She also has work forthcoming in the Antioch Review. She lives, works, and loves in Seattle.

J. R. Hanson grew up and was educated in North Idaho, before earning graduate degrees from Heidelberg University, the Sorbonne, and Cornell. He has taught foreign languages in the U.S. and English abroad (once buying a carpet in Yemen, although without leaving it in a taxi). His stories have previously appeared in New Orphic Review (Canada) and another is forthcoming in Ascent. He now writes full-time from a suburb of Philadelphia.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Scott Henkle has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Washington and is currendy working on a PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published work in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and at Web Conjunctions. He lives with his wife and sons in Brooklyn.

Jim Hicks is Director of the American Studies Diploma Program at Smith College and a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. From 2004 to 2007, he served as U.S. Project Director of the Educational Partnership Program between Smith College and the University of Sarajevo. He has published work in the Centennial Review, the Minnesota Review, Postmodern Culture, Twentieth Century Literature, as well as scholarly journals in Italy and Estonia. His current book project is entitled Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer.

Nicolas Hundley‘s work has recently appeared in New Orleans Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and others. One day he woke up in Austin,Texas. He has lived there ever since.

Norman Lock‘s most recent novels are The King of Sweden and Shadowplay. He received the 1979 Aga Kahn Prize, given by the Paris Review, a 1999 fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and a 2009 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has also written exten sively for stage, radio, and film. More at normanlock.com.

Sara Majka lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she works as a research editor for the Media Giraffe Project and interns at Small Beer Press. She is currently an MFA student at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her fiction has appeared in Night Train and Zone 3.

Joy Manesiotis is the author of They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and Poetry International, and she has received a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Graves Award, and the Reader’s Choice Award from Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Redlands, in California.

Michael Maschio is a novelist living in New York City and a graduate of Columbia College. His fiction has appeared in Clackamas Review, Descant, William & Mary Review, Italian Americana, 5_Trope, Exquisite Corpse, and Terminus.

Melinda Moustakis is a PhD student in cre ative writing at Western Michigan University. She has stories published or forthcoming in Fourteen Hills and Cimarron Review.

Miguel Murphy is the author of A Book Called Rats and curating editor for Pistola, a literary journal of poetry online. His poems and reviews most recently appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ploughshares, and Rain Taxi.

Alicia Ostriker is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). She teaches in the low-residency MFA Poetry Program at Drew University.

Jeffrey Perkins teaches poetry in Brookline, Massachusetts, and works at Harvard University. He recently received his MFA from Bennington College.

F. Daniel Rzicznek‘s books include Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2009), Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007) and Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). He is also coeditor, with Gary L. McDowell, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2010. He currently teaches English at Bowling Green State University.

Yerra Sugarman is the author of two poetry collections, both published by the Sheep Meadow Press: Forms of Gone (2002) and The Bag of Broken Glass (2008). She has received many honors, among them a PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a “Discovery/The Nation” Poetry Prize, a Canada Council Grant for Creative Writers, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poetry, translations and critical writing have appeared in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Literary Imagination, Poetry International, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and Pleiades, among other publications. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and lives in New York.

Eric Thomas hails from Omaha, Nebraska. “The Book of Tobin” is his first publication.

Jung H. Yun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House and the Best of Tin House fiction anthology. Currently, she resides in Montague, Massachusetts, where she is at work on her first novel.