Contributors.

COVER

Zacatecas 1. Archival pigment print photography, 17 x 24 in. 2010. [c] Francisco Souto.

Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a BFA from Herron School of Art and a MFA from The Ohio State University. His honors include more than forty-five national and international awards and grants, including a special prize at the 7th International Triennial of Prints in Japan, a selected prize at the 12th International Biennial of Prints and Drawing in China, and the International Award at the British International Print Exhibition. Souto has been artist-in-residence in many national and international venues, and his prints and drawings have been published in many catalogs, magazines, and books. In the last nine years, his work has been exhibited in more than eighty venues.

PROSE

Jennine Capo Crucet is the author of the story collection How to Leave Hialeah, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the John Gardner Prize, the Devil's Kitchen Award in Prose, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald, the New Times, and the Latinidad List. A winner of an O. Henry Prize and a Bread Loaf Fellow, she held the Picador Guest Professorship in American Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Leipzig in Germany for the winter 2013-14 term. Her debut novel, Magic City Relic, is forthcoming from St. Martins Press in summer 2015.

Debra Gwartney is the author of a memoir, Live Through This, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She is co-editor, with Barry Lopez, of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Debra has received fellowships from Literary Arts, Hedgebrook, UCross, the Oregon Arts Council, and others. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including the New York Times Modern Love column, Salon, Triquarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, and American Scholar. She teaches in Pacific University's low-residency MFA program.

Praveen Krishna practices law in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. His fiction has appeared in Asymptote.

Jacob Newberry is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at Florida State University, where he holds the University and Kingsbury Fellowships. Winner of the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest in Nonfiction and the Southwest Review's 2012 McGinnis-Ritchie Prize for Best Fiction, he has also been awarded scholarships and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fulbright Foundation. Two essays were recently listed as "Notables" in Best American Essays 2013. His nonfiction, poetiy, and fiction have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Originally from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, he received an MA in French literature from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Stephen Rosen's short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including The Iowa Review, Stiller's Pond: New Fiction from the Upper Midwest, Snake Nation Review, and The William and Mary Review. He is the recipient of a Loft-McKnight Award for Fiction. He lives with his wife, Janet, in northern Minnesota.

Anis Shivani's books include The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, My Tranquil War and Other Poems, Anatolia and Other Stories, and the forthcoming novel Karachi Raj. He is currently at work on a novel called Abruzzi, 1936, a poetry book called Empire, and a new book of criticism called Plastic Realism: Neoliberal Discourse in New American Fiction. New work appears or is forthcoming in Salmagundi, Yale Review, Boston Review, Antioch Review, Georgia Review, AGNI, Epoch, and elsewhere.

Ilana Sichel lives in New York, where she works as an editor, writer, and translator. She has won a Henfield Prize and a residency from the Jentel Foundation, and her short fiction was selected as a finalist in Narrative's 30 Below Contest. She earned her bachelor's degree at Harvard University and her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan.

Dariel Suarez is a Cuban-born writer who came to the United States in 1997-He earned his MFA in fiction at Boston University, where he was a Global Fellow. Dariel has taught creative writing at Boston University, Boston Arts Academy, and Boston University's Metropolitan College. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and magazines, including the Florida Review, Southern Humanities Review, Gargoyle, and Baltimore Review, as well as several anthologies. He recently completed a story collection set in his native country, and he's at work on a novel about a Cuban political prisoner, titled The Playwright's House.

Ashley Wurzbacher's stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She is a fiction editor for Gulf Coast and is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston.

POETRY

Doug Anderson's most recent book is Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self Discovery (Norton). His book of poetry, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police won a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Emerson College.

Daniel Banulescu, one of Romania's most prominent writers today, is the author of the poetry collections I'll Love You to the End of the Bed, The Ballad of Daniel Banulescu, The Federal Republic of Daniel Banulescu, and It's Good to be Daniel Banulescu. He has also authored many novels. His first play is Who Won the World War of Religions? (U of Plymouth P). His work has been translated into English and German, and he was a guest at the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam.

Francesca Bell's poems have appeared in many journals, including Rattle, burntdistrict, North American Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She has been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize.

Isobel Dixon grew up in South Africa, where her debut Weather Eye (Carapace) won the Olive Schreiner Prize. Her further collections, A Fold in the Map and The Tempest Prognosticator (Salt), are published in the United Kingdom. She cowrote and performed in The Debris Field (Sidekick Books), a multimedia show about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Robert Gibb's books include The Origins of Evening, which was a National Poetry Series winner. Among his other awards are two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. His most recent books are Sheet Music (Autumn House P) and The Empty Loom (U of Arkansas P).

Janice N. Harrington's Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her latest book of poetry is The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (BOA Editions). She teaches at the University of Illinois.

Shadab Zeest Hashmi's Baker of Tarifa, a book based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al Andalus (Muslim Spain), won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times, translated into Spanish and Urdu, and have appeared in Poetry International, Nimrod, The Cortland Review, RHINO, and elsewhere. She represents Pakistan on UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry and has taught in the MFA program at San Diego State University as a writer-in-residence. She is a guest columnist for 3 Quarks Daily. Kohl and Chalk is her new book of poems.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including the poetry collection Cinema Muto (SIU Press) and the novel My Life as a Silent Movie (Indiana UP). She is also the editor of America invertida, an anthology of younger Uruguayan poets that is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press.

Lisa C. Krueger is a clinical psychologist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Ploughshares, Atlanta Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Rattle. She is the author of three books of poetry: Rebloom, animals the size of dreams, and Talisman (all from Red Hen P). She has written a series of interactive journals related to psychology and creativity and maintains a psychotherapy practice in Pasadena.

Nguyen Phan Que Mai is the author of three poetry collections and has won some of the most prestigious literary awards from Vietnam, including Poetry of the Year Award from the Hanoi Writers Association, and First Prize of the "Poetry about Hanoi 2008-2010" competition from Vietnam's Literature Newspaper and the Hanoi Radio & Television. She was a visiting writer of Hong Kong Baptist University's 2012 International Writers Workshop and Distinguished Asian Writer and Guest Panelist of Silliman University's 51st National Writers Workshop in the Philippines. Her forthcoming poetry collection is The Secret of Hoa Sen (BOA Editions).

Rajiv Mohabir, a VONA and Kundiman fellow, is the author of the chapbooks na bad-eye me (Pudding House P) and na mash me bone (Finishing Line P). His poetiy is published or forthcoming from journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, Great River Review, Assacarus, and Lantern Review. Nominated for a Pushcart, he received his MFA in poetiy and translation from Queens College, CUNY, where he was editor-in-chief of Ozone Park Journal.

Catherine Morocco is the author of Moon without Craters or Shadows (Aldrich P) on recovering from brain injury. A poem from that collection won the Dana Foundation Prize for poetry related to the brain. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Salamander, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Bellowing Ark, and others and in the forthcoming anthology Island Voices 2. She is currently working on a collection about her South Dakota childhood.

Charlotte Pence is the author of the poetry collection Spike (Black Lawrence P) and two other chapbooks. She also edited The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (UP of Mississippi) that explores the similarities and differences between poetry and songs. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.

Doug Ramspeck is the author of five poetry collections. His most recent book, Original Bodies (Southern Indiana Review P), received the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and is forthcoming. Two earlier books were also selected for awards: Mechanical Fireflies won the Barrow Street Press Book Prize, and Black Tupelo Country, the John Ciardi Prize.

Dana Roeser is the author of The Theme of Tonight's Party Has Been Changed, winner of the 2013 Juniper Prize. Her first two books, Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both won the Morse Prize. She received an NEA fellowship in 2007-Recent work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, New Ohio Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Review, and others.

Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone (New Issues), Black Loam (Cherry Grove), and Toluca Street (U of Pittsburgh P). She is also coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (Copper Canyon P). She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Joan I. Siegel is the author of Hyacinth for the Soul (Deerbrook Editions), Light at Point Reyes (Shabda P), and The Fourth River (Shabda P), as well as coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter. She is the recipient of both the New Letters Poetry Award and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the American Scholar, Gettysburg Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She was a finalist for the 2012 Pablo Neruda Prize.

Kevin Simmonds has recently published work in Memorious, Drunken Boat, Cincinnati Review, and Octopus. His latest book is Bend to It (Salmon Poetry).

Floyd Skloot's newest book is Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir (U of Wisconsin P). His seventh collection of poems, Close Reading, was published in February by the British publisher Eyewear.

Adam J. Sorkin is a translator of contemporary Romanian poetry whose work has won the Poetry Society (UK) Prize for European Poetry Translation, the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize, and the loan Flora Poetry Translation Prize, among other awards. His most recent books include Ion Muresan's The Book of Winter and Other Poems (translated with Lidia Vianu), Liliana Ursu's A Path to the Sea (translated with Ursu and Tess Gallagher), and Ioan Flora's Medea and Her War Machines (translated with Alina Carac), as well as The Vanishing Point That Whistles: An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman House).

KC Trommer is the author of the chapbook The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl p). She has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as fellowships from the Table 4 Writers Foundation, Center for Book Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Prague Summer Program. Her poems have appeared in AGNI Online, Antioch Review, Octopus, Sycamore Review, and a number of other journals. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her family.

Lidia Vianu has published literary criticism, including The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium (Bucharest UP), Alan Brown-john and the Desperado Age (Bucharest UP), and British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium (ALL Publishing, Bucharest), as well as two books of interviews, Censorship in Romania (Central European UP) and Desperado Essay-Interviews (Bucharest UP), a novel, translations, and three poetry collections.

Bruce Weigl is the author of thirteen poetry collections and the best-selling memoir Circle of Hanh. He has received many literary awards, including the Poet's Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Paterson Poetry Prize, awards from the NEA and Yaddo Foundation, and two Pushcart Prizes. Having fought in the American War in Vietnam, he has been working for more than twenty years to promote mutual understanding and reconciliation between Vietnam and the United States through literature and cultural exchanges. His most recent poetry collection is The Abundance of Nothing, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Karen McCarthy Woolf is a British poet of English and Jamaican heritage. She is a Complete Works fellow and a doctoral candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship. Her poetry appears in Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Review, and Poetry London, all journals for which she also reviews. Her collection, An Aviary of Small Birds (Oxford Carcanet), is forthcoming.

REVIEWS

Michael Broida's writing has appeared in The Iowa Review Online and TheRumpus.net. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2012 and currently lives in Philadelphia.

Susan Cohen won the 2013 Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Prize from Harpur Palate, among other awards. Her most recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Connotation Press, Hunger Mountain, Los Angeles Review, Mudfish, Salamander, Sou'wester, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. She received an MFA from Pacific University and is the author of Throat Singing (WordTech).

David Mills is the author of two poetry collections, most recently The Sudden Country (Main Street Rag). His poems have appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, jubilat, and Callaloo, and his book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He was a finalist for the 2013 Paumanok Award.

Raul Palma is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Winner of the 2012 Soul-Making Keats Story Prize, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Saw Palm: Florida Literature & Art, NANO, Naugatuck River Review, Penduline Press, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife and daughter in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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