Volume 48, Issue 1

Contributors

Kazim Ali is the author of The Far Mosque (Alice James Books) and the novel Quina’s Passage (blazeVox books). Fortieth Day, from which this poem is drawn, will be published by BOA Editions in Spring 2008. Kazim is assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University and publisher of Nightboat Books.

Jacob M. Appel‘s short fiction has appeared in AGNI, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from New York University and teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Gotham Writers’Workshop in New York City.

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

Paula Bohince‘s poems have appeared in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Field, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She has received the Grolier Poetry Prize, residencies from the MacDowell Colony, and artists’ grants from the Puffin Foundation and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.

Marianne Boruch is the author of several books of poetry, including A Stick That Breaks and Breaks, and Moss Burning (both with Oberlin College Press). She has also written Poetry’s Old Air (Poets on Poetry), (University of Michigan Press).

Shannon Cain is a recipient of a 2006 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories have appeared most recently in the New England Review, the Florida Review, and the American Literary Review as the winner of their 2005 Short Fiction Prize. She is the Executive Director of Kore Press, a nonprofit independent publisher of literature by women. She lives in a little brick house in Tucson, Arizona, with her partner, Karin, and their eleven-year-old daughter. This is her second appearance in the Massachusetts Review.

Lindsay Carleton, a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop, lives in Denver, where she is working on a book, or two.

Polly Cassel is a Northampton furniture maker who began printmaking after a visit to her childhood home, where she came across some old doll clothes. “I found myself reflecting on the idea of clothes having history. The clothes by themselves conjure up intrigue and mystery, and filled me with questions. This body of work coincided with the tragic events of September 11, 2001. I remember being lost in thought while looking at these clothes that seemed vulnerable and innocent, creating an odd juxtaposition between some thing so simple in my youth and a world that has become so complex and horrific.”

Wyn Cooper‘s most recent book is Postcards from the Interior (BOA, 2005). He lives in Vermont, where he helps run the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Patricia Fargnoli, the current New Hampshire Poet Laureate, is the author of three books of poetry. Her book Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005) won the 2005 Jane Kenyon Literary Award for an outstanding book by a New Hampshire poet. A MacDowell fellow, she is published in Poetry, Ploughshares, and Mid-American Review.

Robert Long Foreman holds degrees from West Virginia University and Ohio University, where he currently teaches. His creative and scholarly work is forthcoming elsewhere in SLAB and the Frontenac Review.

William Giraldi is an editor for AGNI at Boston University. His stories and essays have appeared recently in The Believer, Tin House, Shenandoah, Witness, Mississippi Review, and Fiction. “Unstrung” is part of his memoir of the same title.

Elizabeth Knapp‘s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, Post Road and Washington Square, among others. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Western Michigan University, where she serves as Poetry Editor of Third Coast.

David Dodd Lee is the author of four collections of poems, including Arrow Pointing North (Four Way, 2002) and Abrupt Rural (New Issues, 2004). He is the editor of SHADE, an anthology of poetry and fiction. He lives in Indiana and Michigan.

Carol Levin‘s poems have appeared in Third Coast, the Seattle Review, the Comstock Review, the Cortland Review, the Gloria Mundi Press, and Seattle Woman magazine, as well as a coffee table book, Kalakala: Magnificent Vision Recaptured, by Steven Russell. Poems were set and performed as choral work by composer Carol Sams. She collaborated in translating The Three Sisters and Three More, Plays by Anton Chekhov, and wrote a dictionary of Stanislavsky terms for theater artists. She teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle.

Darrel Mansell is a Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He is the author of a book on Jane Austen, and of many articles and essays. He and his wife, Adrianna Saviane, live in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Phong Nguyen is currently editor-in-chief at Cream City Review, and an instructor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is working on a collection of short fiction taking place in Providence, Rhode Island. “Man Bites Dog,” which appears in this issue, will be part of this collection; two other stories, “Memory Sickness” and “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” will appear in AGNI and Rosebud, respectively.

Alexandria Peary‘s work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Verse, Fence, jubilat, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, and the Spoon River Review. She is Director of Writing and an associate professor at Daniel Webster College, in Nashua, New Hampshire, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

Boomer Pinches was born in New Jersey. He is currently working toward his MFA in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Sarah Sawyer teaches English and directs the Writing Center at the Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in literature from the Breadloaf School of English and a BA from Amherst College. This is her first published poem.

Maxine Scates‘ most recent book is Black Loan (Cherry Grove Collections). She is also the author of Toluca Street and co-editor of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Janset Berkok Shami is Turkish born. English is her second language. After studying English at Ankara University and Queen Mary College of London, she married a Jordanian doctor and came to live in Amman. Her first novel, Cages on Opposite Shores, was published in 1995 by Interlink, New York. It was translated the next year and publshed by Aksoy Yayincilik. Short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Confrontation, Cimarron Review, NewYork Stories, Malahat Review, Grain and many other literary magazines.

Stuart Ste. Croix lives in Chester, New Hampshire. He is a graduate of Chester College of New England and is planning on attending graduate school to earn his MFA in creative writing. This is his first publication in a nationally distributed magazine.

Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University. She is the author of The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas, The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón, In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (co-ed., with Carol Maier), My House Remember Me (poetry), and other books. The Culture of CursilerÍa: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize in 2003.

Theresa Vincent is originally from Malaysia. She now lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.