Issue Nine, April 2010
Tamiko Beyer’s poetry has appeared diode, Sonora Review, OCHO, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. She has received several fellowships and grants, including a Kundiman fellowship, a grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and a Olin and Chancellor’s Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis where she is currently an M.F.A. candidate. She the poetry editor of Drunken Boat, and a founding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective in New York City. Find her online at wonderinghome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org.
Callista Buchen is an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches composition and creative writing. Her poetry has previous appeared or is forthcoming at Bellevue Review, Gargoyle, Willow Review, and others. Her reviews have appeared in Mid-American Review.
Anna Clark is a 2010 Fellow with the Peter Jennings Center for Journalists and the Constitution. Her writing has appeared in The American Prospect, Salon, The Nation, UTNE Reader, AlterNet, Writers' Journal, and other publications. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. She edits the website, Isak and lives in Detroit, Michigan.
Renée E. D’Aoust’s essay “Graham Crackers” was included in Robert Gottlieb’s anthology Reading Dance (Pantheon Books). Recent publications include “Twine” in Squid Quarterly, “Troy, Kansas” in Redwood Coast Review, and dance reviews online at Explore Dance and Culture Vulture. D’Aoust has received three “Notable Essay” listings in Best American Essays, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism at American Dance Festival, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts.
Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry titles are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami.
Trent England is finishing his first novel. He can be found online at www.tengland.com.
Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions) and YOU ARE MIST (Moor Books, forthcoming), as well as several chapbooks, including The Hours (Cinematheque Press, forthcoming) and Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983) (Hell Yes! Press, forthcoming), which he wrote in collaboration with Dobby Gibson. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Kira Henehan was born in New York and grew up in various locales around the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Her work has been published in Fence, jubilat, Chelsea, Conjunctions, and Denver Quarterly, among others, and has received a Pushcart Prize and been included in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. She attended San Francisco State University and Columbia University, and lives in New York City. This is her first novel.
Cynthia Hogue's most recent collections of poems are Or Consequence (Red Hen Press, 2010) and When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, a collection of interview-poems with photographs by Rebecca Ross (University of New Orleans Press, 2010). She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University.
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago. Her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming in 2012 from Dzanc Books. In the meantime, she's the poetry editor for decomp, a fiction reader for Our Stories, a member of the editorial team at Tarpaulin Sky Press, and a regular contributor to BigOther.com. She blogs her rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.
Charles Jensen's first collection of poems, The First Risk, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. He is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon. Recent poems appear in the Yalobusha Review. He serves as Director of The Writer's Center in Washington, DC, and on the Emerging Leader Council of Americans for the Arts. He blogs at KINEMAPOETICS. www.charles-jensen.com.
Darby Larson's fiction has been published in New York Tyrant, Caketrain, and elsewhere. He is the editor of ABJECTIVE.
Norman Lock is the author of A History of the Imagination (novel, Fiction Collective Two), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe (novella, Ravenna Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning and The King of Sweden (novels, Ravenna Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), and, writing as George Belden, Land of the Snow Men (novella, Calamari Press and, in Japanese, from Kawade Shobo). Two short-prose collections – Joseph Cornell’s Operas and Émigrés – were published by Elimae Books and subsequently issued, in Turkish, by an Istanbul publisher as part of its New World Writing series. Together with Grim Tales, they were brought out by Triple Press as Trio. Cirque du Calder, a hand-made artist’s book with afterword by Gordon Lish, was presented by The Rogue Literary Society. Shadowplay, a novel, was released in September, 2009, by Ellipsis Press. Three Plays is due in 2010 from Noemi Press. Lock is represented by Tuttle-Mori Agency in Japan and Per Lauke Verlag in Germany. Stage plays include Water Music, Favorite Sports of the Martyrs, Mounting Panic, The Sinking Houses, The Contract, and The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing) – voted one of the best plays of 1988 and 1994 by The Los Angeles Times and critically acclaimed as the best new play of the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate House, and Money, Power & Greed were broadcast by wdr, Germany. A screen play, The Body Shop, was produced by the American Film Institute and screened in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, and New York. Lock received the Aga Kahn Prize for fiction, given by The Paris Review, in 1979, a 1999 prose fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and a 2009 prose fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder is currently completing her MFA degree at the University of Mississippi where she is the recipient of a John and Renée Grisham Fellowship. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tampa Review, and Measure, and she is the recipient of a 2010 AWP Intro Journals Award in poetry.
Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length books of poems - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). He lives in Syracuse, NY, where he teaches poetry for the Downtown Writer’s Center/YMCA & works online with gifted students through Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, you can find him online at http://www.natepritts.com.
Alan Shapiro's new book, Night of the Republic, will be published by Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt in 2011. Also in 2011 Algonquin Books will publish his first novel, Broadway Baby.
Sarah Sweeney's work has appeared or is forthcoming from Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, Waccamaw, The Pinch, Minnetonka Review, PANK, and others. A native of North Carolina, she lives and writes in Boston. You can find her online at www.sarah-sweeney.com.
C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry: The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern 2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books 2007), and Torn (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2011). He lives in San Francisco where he practices medicine full-time.