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Contributors' Notes
Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S.!, Bear v. Shark, and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (an e-book). He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Beth Bachmann’s poems have recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI Online, and elsewhere. She teaches at Vanderbilt University and serves as the book review editor for The Southern Review.
Nicole Barrick recently moved to Philadelphia from Baltimore, where she received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received her BA from Brown University. She paints and crafts objects out of hair.
Stephanie Bolster’s first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won Canada’s Governor-General’s Award for Poetry in 1998 and will soon appear in French translation. She has also published Two Bowls of Milk (1999) and Pavilion (2002) and teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.
Jennifer Chang’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, New England Review, The New Republic, the Poetry Daily anthology, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is a Commonwealth Fellow and PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia and serves as the Communications Director of Kundiman, an Asian American poetry non-profit based in New York City.
Victoria Chang’s book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Open Competition (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). She is the editor of an anthology: Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004). Her poems have been published in or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2005, The Nation, Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, and others. She resides in Southern California and is completing a PhD in USC’s literature and creative writing program and works as a business writer.
Beth Ann Fennelly has written two books of poetry, Open House (Zoo Press) and Tender Hooks (W. W. Norton, 2004), and a book of essays, Great With Child (W.W. Norton, 2006). She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi, and lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Michele Glazer’s books are Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa) and It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See (Pittsburgh). She teaches at Portland State University.
Paul Guest is the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, winner of the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize, and Notes for My Body Double, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His poems appear in Poetry, The Southern Review, Slate, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Exit Interview, is available from New Michigan Press.
K.A. Hays’s work has appeared most recently in The Hudson Review, American Literary Review, and Indiana Review, and is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Florida Review, and New Orleans Review. She completed an MFA at Brown University in 2005 and is at work on a first book of poetry.
Lily Hoang received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame. She currently teaches writing and composition. Her novel, Parabola: A Novel in 21 Intersections, won the Chiasmus Press First Book Contest and is forthcoming in 2007. Her fictions have appeared or are forthcoming in Quarter After Eight, Mad Hatters’ Review, and BlazeVOX.
James Hoch is the author of Miscreants (W.W. Norton, 2007) and A Parade of Hands (Silverfish Review Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Slate, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, and 32 Poems, among others. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars, and teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Leslie Jamison is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former waiter at Bread Loaf. She currently lives in New York City, where she crashes daily into walls made of everything.
Christopher Merkner teaches creative writing for the University of Colorado at Denver and is completing his PhD in creative writing at the University of Denver.
Lydia Millet is the author of several novels, including My Happy Life, which won the 2002 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and most recently, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart. Her next book, How the Dead Dream, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in late 2007.
Ander Monson lives in Michigan where he edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press. He is the author of three books: a novel, Other Electricities (Sarabande Books, 2005); a poetry collection, Vacationland (Tupelo Press, 2005); and an essay collection, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, that won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and will be released in 2007.
Michael Salisbury was born and raised in a small town; he hopes to someday grow old in one. He is a recent graduate of Grand Valley State University and currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is his first publication.
Sarah E. Smith is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her poems have appeared in Swink and Beloit Poetry Journal.
Lynne Tillman’s fifth novel is American Genius, A Comedy. Her last novel, No Lease on Life, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. Tillman has also written three collections of short stories, most recently, This Is Not It, and three books of nonfiction, the last, Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. She is the fiction editor of Fence.
Steve Tomasula’s short fiction has appeared widely in magazines including McSweeney’s, Denver Quarterly, and The Iowa Review. He is the author of the novels VAS: An Opera in Flatland, IN & OZ, and most recently, The Book of Portraiture.
Deb Olin Unferth’s fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Conjunctions, Fence, NOON, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and elsewhere. Her first book is forthcoming from McSweeney’s.
Eben Wood, born and raised in Maine, is a graduate of the writing program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He currently teaches writing and literature at Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York. Recent publications are poems in Five Fingers Review and Fence, and short fiction in Boston Review. He recently got back from Nigeria, which was exciting and interesting, and he lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Greta Wrolstad, a gifted (and prolific) poet, painter, and photographer, passed away on August 9, 2005, from injuries suffered in a car accident. A thinker, adventurer, traveler, and observer, she was moved by learning and new experiences, and especially by her pursuit of an MFA degree in creative writing at the University of Montana, where she also held a teaching assistantship. Greta had impeccable taste in writing, food, music, art, shoes, and geography, and it served her as poetry co-editor of CutBank. Greta attended the 2005 Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia on a scholarship awarded by Fence Books. Her poems have been published in The Canary and CutBank. Her birthday is April 26th, 1981.