Volume 50, Issue 3

Contributors

Manuel Alvarez bravo was born in down town Mexico City on February 4, 1902. A pioneer of artistic photography in Mexico, he is considered the main representative of Latin American photography in the 20th century. His work extends from the late 1920s to the 1990s. While he was alive, Alvarez Bravo held over 150 individual exhibitions and participated in over 200 collective exhibitions in locations through out the world including the Museo de San Carlos, Mexico City, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Chicago Art Institute. He died on October 19, 2002, at the age of one hundred.

Bernard W. Bell is an award-winning Liberal Arts Research Professor of American and African American Literature, Language and Culture in the Department of English, the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author, editor, or co editor of eight monographs and books, including The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Literary Branches (UMass, 2005), which has received four national awards and was published in a bilingual edition in The People’s Republic of China (PRC). The recipient of five Fulbright awards, including two to PRC, he inspired the founding in 1994 of the only African American Studies Center in China by the principal translator into Mandarin of his The Afro American Novel and Its Tradition (UMass, 1987).

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. Martins), and O’Neill’s Shakespeare (Michigan). He is the Theater Editor of the Massachusetts Review.

Wendy Brandmark is a fiction writer, reviewer, and lecturer. “The Book Thief” is from a collection of short stories, which she finished writing with the support of the Arts Council in London. Her novel The Angry Gods was published by Dewi Lewis in 2003 and came out in the U.S. in 2005. She lives in London and teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College, part of the University of London.

Jenny Browne‘s most recent collection, The Second Reason, was published by the University of Tampa in 2008. Now poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, American Poetry Review, and Sentence. A former James Michener Fellow at the University ofTexas, she now teaches at Trinity University and lives in downtown San Antonio.

Erik Campbell‘s poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Iowa Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. His first poetry collection, Arguments for Stillness (Curbstone Press, 2007), was named by Book Sense as one of the top ten poetry collections for that year.

Joseph Capista teaches at Towson University. His work is forthcoming in the North American Review, Slate, and Quarterly West. He was awarded the 2009 Mona Van Duyn Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Colin Cheney received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Fourteen Hills, New Delta Review, Isotope, and Runes: Hearth.

Joanne Dominique Dwyer lives outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Field, and Conduit. She is a graduate of the College of Santa Fe’s Creative Writing Department, and a current MFA candidate at Warren Wilson.

Reginald Flood is a native Californian who now lives in a small town in southeastern Connecticut with his wife and two teenagers. His poems have appeared in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Georgia University Press, 2007) and Cave Canem X Anniversary Collection (University of Michigan Press, 2006). He has been fortunate to be a Cave Canem fellow and a recipient of the Walker Fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Center. He teaches in the English Department at Eastern Connecticut State University

Chris Forhan is the author of The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars, which won the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Bakeless Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Parnassus, and other magazines, as well as in The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of several collections, including Novel Pictorial Noise, which was selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series, and subsequently chosen for the 2007 San Francisco State University Poetry Center Book Award. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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.

Joanna Klink is the author of two books of poetry, They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia, 2000) and Circadian (Penguin, 2007). She teaches at the University of Montana.

Lesle Lewis is the author of Small Boat (University of Iowa Press, 2003) and Landscapes I & II (Alice James Books, 2006). She lives in New Hampshire and teaches writing and literature at Landmark College in Vermont.

Eric Lorberer holds a B.A. in English Literature and Humanities from Washington College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published poems, essays, and criticism in numerous magazines and journals, and has been awarded a SASE/Jerome Fellowship for his poetry. As the editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books, an award-winning quarterly published in Minneapolis, he is responsible for the voice and style that has brought the magazine widespread acclaim. Lorberer also is the director of the Rain Taxi Reading Series and the Twin Cities Book Festival, has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and speaks at conferences and literary festivals around the country as an advocate for independent publishing and literary culture.

Teddy Macker‘s work has appeared in Seneca Review, New Letters, New Ohio Review, The Sun, Court Green, the anthology The River Teeth Reader, and elsewhere. He teaches at UC Santa Barbara and lives on a farm in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains.

Timothy Maher, a writer in Somerville, Massachusetts, is finishing up his first novel. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. His play, The Mercury Room, was performed at the Theatre-Studio in New York in 2000. “Collision” is his first published story.

Paola Masino (1908-1989) wrote prolifically during the Fascist dictatorship and was a prominent figure in the Italian cultural and intellectual environment of her time. Her first novel, Monte Ignoso, was awarded the 1931 Viareggio Literary Prize, and her short stories were published in the most prestigious Italian literary magazines of the time. Her official narrative production includes three novels: Monte Ignoso (Bompiani, 1931), Periferia (Bompiani, 1933), and Nascita e morte della massaia (Bompiani, 1945); three collections of short stories: Decadenza della morte (Casa editrice Alberto Stock, 1931), Racconto grosso e altris (Bompiani, 1941), and Colloquio di notte (published posthumously by La Luna, 1994); and one book of poetry, Poesie (Bompiani, 1941).

Melanie McCabe is a high school English and creative writing teacher in Arlington, Virginia. She received an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University in 2005. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Lake Effect, Crab Orchard Review, Fourteen Hills, Quarterly West, Nimrod, Harpur Palate and the Evansville Review. Work is forthcoming in the Georgia Review and the Carolina Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2009 Pablo Neruda Prize.

Dennis McFadden, a project manager for the State of New York, lives and writes in an old farmhouse called Mountjoy on Bliss Road, off Peaceable Street just up from Harmony Corners in upstate New York. His stories have appeared in over two dozen publications, including the Missouri Review, New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fiction, Event, and the South Carolina Review. His short story collection, Hart’s Grove, which includes “Strauss the Butcher,” will be published next year by the Colgate University Press.

One of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers, Semezdin Mehmedinović is the author of four books and has worked as an editor, journalist, and filmmaker. The English translation of his spare and haunting Sarajevo Blues, written under the horrific circumstances of the war, was praised by the Washington Post as one of the best literary documents of the conflict. After the war, Mehmedinović and his family came to the U.S. as political refugees, settling in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2004, the Oakland-based band Charming Hostess released a CD version of Sarajevo Blues scored for voices, beatbox, and string trio. Mehmedinović’s most recent volume of poems, Nine Alexandrias, translated by Ammiel Alcalay and published by City Lights in 2003, was written in response to a cross-country train trip across post-9/11 America and to to twenty-first century life in the heart of the empire.

Donald Morrill is the author of two books of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day. He is also the author of three books of nonfiction: The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award), Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger’s Neighborhood. Currently, he is a poetry editor of the Tampa Review and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa.

Sandip Mukherji supports his addiction to writing fiction by working as a finance professor. He has published a dozen short stories in Indian magazines. His recent stories have found refuge in Confrontation and PRISM International.

David Philip Mullins grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction has appeared in New England Review and Cimarron Review, is forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In addition, he has held the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature at Yaddo. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife and daughter, and teach es creative writing at the University of Nebraska.

Frances Justine Post lives in New York City, where she works at the Poetry Society of America. She was named a winner in the 2008 “Discovery”/The Boston Review Poetry Contest.

Laura Prah received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College. She currently works in media and technology and has served as a writer and producer for educational multi media projects. Her work has also appeared in Kalliope. She lives in New York City and is work ing on a collection of short stories.

Louise Rozier directs the Italian Program at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the field of translation and in twentieth century Italian literature with a specific emphasis on women’s writing. Her translation of Fortunato Pasqualino’s The Little Jesus of Sicily, published in 1999 by the University of Arkansas Press, was awarded the 1996 PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award.

Stacia Saint Owens grew up in Kansas and now resides in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Brown University’s MFA Program. “Little Miss Might-Have-Been” is from her collection Auto Erotica, winner of the Tartt First Fiction prize and published by Livingston Press in 2009.

Elizabeth Searle is the author of three books of fiction: the novella Celebrities in Disgrace, the novel A Four-Sided Bed, and the short story collection My Body to You, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. Her most recent work is Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera (2008).

George Singer is a former Zen Buddhist monk who studied with Rev. Master Jiyu Kennet for several years. His poetry has been published in several national journals. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he makes a living as a professor at the University of California.

Cynthia Snow lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Peace Review, Mothering, Worcester Review, Kalliope, and other publications. She thanks WVU and EDW for their support and inspiration.

Adam Stumacher‘s fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, TriQuarterly, Barnstorm, and The Sun, and was winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He was recipient of the Carol Houck Smith fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and he holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary’s College of California. He is the author of the short story collection Slipknot and is currently working on a novel, entitled A Liar’s Opus.

Johnny Townsend earned an MFA in fiction writing from Louisiana State University. He has published over sixty stories and essays in various publications, including Newsday, the Washington Post, the Army Times, the Humanist, and in the anthology In Our Lovely Desert: Mormon Fictions. A native of New Orleans, he relocated to Seattle after Hurricane Katrina.

Tess Wheelwright grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and East Corinth, Vermont. She has lived outside Taiyuan, in Buenos Aires, and currently resides in Edinburgh. Work of hers has been published in the Yale Review.