Volume 57, Issue 3

Contributors

Addressing pop culture and racial conflicts, NINA CHANEL ABNEY paints scenes rooted in autobiography, current events, and traditional storytelling. Driven by a fascination with the perceived importance of celebrity news as compared to politics, she works in a pop-surrealist style, employing cartoonish figures and playful compositions to echo the perpetual stimulation of the digital age. Abney’s paintings have most recently appeared in galleries and shows in New York, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, among others.

PETER BUSH has translated many Catalan, Spanish, and Latin American writers, including Carmen Boullosa, Chico Buarque, Juan Carlos Onetti, Najat El Hachmi, Leonardo Padura Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Teresa Solana, Joan Sales, and Mercè Rodoreda. He received the Valle-Inclán Prize for Juan Goytisolo’s The Marx Family Saga and Exiled from Almost Everywhere, the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Equator, and the Ramon Llull Prize for Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook. The Spanish government awarded him the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 2012 and the Generalitat, the St. George’s Cross in 2015, for his translation and promotion of Spanish and Catalan literature, respectively. He lives in Oxford, where he is completing the translation of Winds of the Night, the sequel to Uncertain Glory.

The last of the original founders of the Massachusetts Review, JULES CHAMETZKY served on the board in various capacities for twenty-seven years. He taught in the UMass English department for thirty-five years, and at multiple European universities as a visiting professor of American Literature and American Studies. He has published over one hundred stories, reviews, and essays in various popular and scholarly journals.

Author of four books of poetry, Dwarf Bamboo; The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty; Rhapsody in Plain Yellow; and Hard Love Province, MARILYN CHIN has also published a novel and contributed to numerous anthologies, including Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian Anthology. She has translated the Chinese poet Ai Qing and co-translated the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. Chin’s awards and fellowships include a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, and a Fulbright Scholarship to Taiwan. She is the Conkling Visiting Poet at Smith College for Spring 2016 and 2017.

STEPHEN CLINGMAN is Distinguished Professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside and an edited collection of essays by Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, translated into a number of languages. Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, a biography of the lawyer and political figure who led Nelson Mandela’s defense at the Rivonia Trial, he has also won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier prize for nonfiction. Clingman’s most recent books are The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary, and Birthmark, a memoir.

JONATHAN DOLLIMORE left school at fifteen with no formal education. He worked in a car factory, in farming, and in journalism before going to university as a mature student. His books include (with Alan Sinfield) Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Modernism; Sexual Dissidence; Death, Desire, and Loss in Western Culture; and Sex, Literature, and Censorship.

LISA BEECH HARTZ directs Seven Cities Writers Project, which brings creative writing workshops to underserved communities. She currently guides a workshop in a city jail. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Redivider, Mud Season, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She lives in the Tidewater region of Virginia with her husband and four sons.

MIKKO HARVEY lives in Columbus, Ohio. His poems appear in places such as Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, FIELD, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Best New Poets 2013.

LAUREN HILGER’s debut poetry collection, Lady Be Good, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016. Awarded the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the Mac-Dowell Colony, where she was a fellow in 2012 and 2014, her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Harvard Review Online, and Kenyon Review Online, among other journals. She serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens.

BRIAN JOHNSON is the author of Torch Lake and Other Poems, a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and Site Visits, a collaborative work with the German painter Burghard Miller-Dannhausen. He is the recipient of two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships and former editor of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters and Commentary, Connecticut Review, West Branch, Interiors, and other journals.

LAURE KATSAROS is associate professor of French at Amherst College. She is the author of two books, Un nouveau monde amoureux: Célibataires et prostituées au dix-neuvième siècle; and New York–Paris: Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City. She is currently at work on a book titled Glass Architecture: Charles Fourier and the Utopia of Collective Self-Surveillance.

MEG KEARNEY is author of two collections of poems for adults, including Home By Now, winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award. She is author of a trilogy of verse novels for teens: The Secret of Me, The Girl in the Mirror, and When You Never Said Goodbye, forthcoming from Persea Books. Her picture book, Trouper (the Three-Legged Dog), was published by Scholastic and is illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and “The Writer’s Almanac,”and in myriad anthologies. Kearney is founding director of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.

JOANN KOBIN’s work has appeared in North American Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly, New Letters, and most recently New England Review and Antioch Review. Women Made of Sound, A Novel in Stories was published by Delphinium Books. Her work has been noted by Best American Short Stories and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Massachusetts Arts Council award, and the Boston Review prize. She received a
St. Botolph Club Foundation grant and was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.

A Beinecke scholar and former Fulbright scholar, MUIRA MCCAMMON researches the overlapping terrain between law, libraries, and wartime archives. Her writings on Guantánamo have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Slate, MIT’s Image Series, and elsewhere. She previously worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society and was a Summer 2016 fellow at the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab.

SABINA MURRAY is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn, and two short-story collections, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning The Caprices and Tales of the New World. Her stories appear in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead II: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Fiction. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, Writers Chronicle, Paris Review Blog, XO Orpheus, and Manila Noir. She teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at UMass Amherst.

ALEX POPPE is a teacher and creative instigator. A former actor/business consultant, she has worked in Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, northern Iraq, the West Bank, Germany, and the United States. When she is not being thrown from the back of food aid trucks or dining with pistol-packing Kurdish hit men, she writes.

HARRY RODDY is an associate professor of German at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. This is his first publication of poetry translations.

JOAN SALES (1912–83) was a Catalan writer, translator, and publisher. He fought against
the fascists in the Spanish Civil War before going into exile in France, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he worked as a linotypist and edited the magazine Quaderns d’Exili. He returned to Spain in 1948 and began writing his novel, Uncertain Glory, first published in 1956 and then revised and extended by Sales. The definitive version in Catalan came out in 1971. He translated Dostoyevsky and Kazantzakis. As a publisher he brought out Mercè Rodoreda’s In Diamond Square and Villallonga’s Bearn, among other classics of Catalan literature.

NIL SANTIÁÑEZ is a professor of Literature and International Studies at Saint Louis University. His most recent books are Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain, Goya/Clausewitz: Paradigmas de la guerra absoluta, and Investigaciones literarias: Modernidad, historia de la literatura y modernismos. He has published on Spanish and European literature and culture. He is working with Justin Crumbaugh on a book titled Spanish Fascist Writing, and drafting a monograph on the ethics and poetics of modern war writing.

FAHRAD SHOWGHI is a psychiatrist, poet, and translator who resides in Hamburg, Germany. His End of the City Map (Ende des Stadtplans )(translated by Rosmarie Waldrop) was published by Burning Deck Press.

CHRISTINE SNEED’s stories have appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and a number of other publications. She is the author of the novels Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men. She lives in Evanston, IL.

TERESE SVOBODA’s Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship was published in September. When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected and New Poems appeared in 2015. Live Sacrifice (stories) will be published in 2017.

MICHAEL WATERS’s books include Celestial Joyride, Gospel Night, Darling Vulgarity (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize). He co-edited Contemporary American Poetry and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali. Recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Fulbright Foundation, and NJ State Council on the Arts, Waters teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation.