CONTRIBUTORS

 
 
ISSUE 5
 
Adam Fell is the author of I Am Not a Pioneer, published in 2011 by H_NGM_N Books, and the chapbook Ten Keys to Being a Champion On and Off the Field (H_NGM_N, 2010), which is available as a free pdf here. His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio; H_ngm_n; Diagram; Tin House; Crazyhorse; notnostrums; Sixth Finch; Ink Node; and Fou; among others. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison & the Iowa Writers’ Workshop & teaches at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he also co-curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.

Hannah Gamble is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series and to be published by Fence in 2012. Her poems and interviews appear or are forthcoming in APR, jubilat, The Laurel Review, Indiana Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She teaches African American Literature at Prairie State College and lives in Chicago.

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of the chapbooks–Weed Over Flower, What Her Hair Says About Her, and Dressing the Throat Plate (forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared in: H_NGM_N, Poemeleon, Jet Fuel Review, Wicked Alice, can we have our ball back?, FRiGG, Dash, Boxcar Poetry Review, Caesura, Gargoyle, and other journals. Sadre-Orafai’s prose has appeared or is forthcoming in: The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, South Loop Review, Ships that pass, Airplane Reading, The Written Wardrobe, and numerous anthologies. She is Senior Poetry Editor for JMWW, Atlanta Regional Editor for Coldfront Magazine, and an Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson‘s recent and new books are Selenography (Sidebrow 2010), Swamp Isthmus (Black Ocean 2013), and The Courier’s Archive & Hymnal (Sidebrow 2014). He lives in Tucson, where he teaches at the University of Arizona and is an editor of Letter Machine Editions and The Volta.

Justin Bigos is a PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of North Texas, where he also reads and interviews for the American Literary Review. His poems have appeared in magazines including Slice, The Collagist, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, and Indiana Review.

Kristen Evans is assistant managing editor of jubilat. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in recent issues of THERMOS, H_NGM_N, Dark Sky Magazine, and GlitterPony. She reviews poetry for Kenyon Review Online and lives in Northampton, MA.

Matt Hart‘s most recent book of poems is Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast, 2012). A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band Travel.

Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (U of Iowa Press, 2010) and the chapbook The Flood (Coconut Books, 2012), and is the 2011–13 Poetry Fellow at Emory University.

Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of Sixth Finch. His poems can be found in Octopus, notnostrums, esque, H_NGM_N and other journals.

Sarah Bartlett lives in Portland, OR. She is the co-author of two chapbook collaborations: Baby On The Safe Side (Publishing Genius in 2011) and A Mule-Shaped Cloud (horse less press 2008). Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Eleven Eleven, Phantom Limb, Heavy Feather Review, Spork, Sixth Finch, NOÖ, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, Filter, New Delta Review, Burnside Review, Raleigh Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Curtis Perdue currently lives in Delray Beach, FL where he teaches high school English. His poems have appeared in H_NGM_N, Willow Springs, NOO Journal, Jellyfish, LEVELER, and are forthcoming in Big Bell. He is the founding and principal editor of a new online journal of poetry and art, www.interrupture.com, and holds an MFA from Emerson College.

ISSUE 4
 
Jason Bredle is the author of three books and three chapbooks, most recently Smiles of the Unstoppable and The Book of Evil. His fourth book, Carnival, is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press in spring 2012. He lives in Chicago.

Keith Montesano is the author of the poetry collection Ghost Lights (Dream Horse Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Third Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Blackbird, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He currently lives with his wife in New York, where he is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at Binghamton University.

Kiik A.K. is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Clara University. He received his MA from UC Davis where his thesis was titled THE JOY OF HUMAN SACRIFICE. He is currently a MFA student at UC San Diego. He was a former editor of The Santa Clara Review and Greenbelt Review. The poems published here are dedicated to the musician and poet, Greg Glazner.

Philip Bice writes and studies Forestry and Animal Ecology in Ames, Iowa.

Luke Bloomfield‘s writing has recently appeared in Barrelhouse, LIT, Forklift, Ohio, Jacket2, BOMB and elsewhere. He is the author of a chapbook, The Duffel Bag, from Factory Hollow Press. He is also an editor for the online journal notnostrums, which is currently on furlough but will return soon. Originally from Massachusetts, he currently teaches baking to preschoolers in Beijing, China.

Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press, September 2012), and co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (U Akron Press, 2011). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Devil’s Lake, diode, Minnesota Review, Puerto del Sol, Redivider, Toad, Waccamaw, and South Dakota Review. She teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Akron, where she directs the NEOMFA program. She also edits Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.

Nick Sturm is a graduate student in the NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aesthetix, Dark Sky, Dinosaur Bees, Forklift, Ohio, H_NGM_N, Hayden’s Ferry, Inknode, Red Lightbulbs, Secret Journal, and Sixth Finch. He is associate editor of YesYes Books and curator of THE BIG BIG MESS READING SERIES.

Rebecca Givens Rolland has poems published or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Witness, Cincinnati Review, American Letters & Commentary, Zoland Poetry, and a range of other journals and fiction forthcoming in J Journal. Currently she lives in Boston and is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her website is www.rebeccarolland.com.

Ted Powers lives in Northampton and attends UMass-Amherst. His poems have appeared in Strange Machine, NOO Journal, GlitterPony, Jellyfish, and Sixth Finch, among others.

Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She was the 2008-09 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral associate and King/Chávez/ParksFellow.
 
 
 
ISSUE 3
 
David Bartone was born in Toms River, New Jersey in 1980. He has recent poems in Oh No, Thermos, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, and others, and a chapbook, Spring Logic, at H_NGM_N. He lives in Amherst, Ma.

Dot Devota is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. Her poems can be found in Missouri among the red clover.

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Family of Marsupial Centaurs (2011, Iris Press). His eleventh collection will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2012. His poems have been published in Mississippi Review, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, Verse Daily, and many other publications. He is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP and available as podcasts.

Joe Wilkins is the author of a forthcoming memoir-in-fragments, The Mountain and the Fathers (Counterpoint 2012) and a collection of poems, Killing the Murnion Dogs (Black Lawrence Press 2011). His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Harvard Review, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Iowa, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College

Leora Fridman is a writer, translator and educator living in Massachusetts. Her recent and forthcoming publications are included in Denver Quarterly, Shampoo, Sixth Finch, H_NGM_N, and others. She is an MFA candidate at the UMass Amherst Program for Poets and Writers where she is an Assistant Director of the Juniper Institute and co-curates the Jubilat/Jones Reading Series.

Mark Rahe received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his poems have appeared in Gutcult, la fovea, Notnostrums, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. Marc lives in Iowa City and works for a human services agency. His first collection of poems, The Smaller Half, was published by Rescue+Press in 2010.

Matthew Guenette is the author of two collections of poetry: American Busboy (U. of Akron Press, 2011) and Sudden Anthem (Dream Horse Press, 2008). He lives, works, and loses sleep in Madison, WI.

Natasha Kessler lives in Omaha and is currently finishing her MFA in poetry at the University of Nebraska. She co-edits the online poetry journal Strange Machine. Her work has appeared in many journals, such as RealPoetik, Sixth Finch, Blue Mesa Review, and is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins and Red Lightbulbs.

Nate Pritts is the author of the five books of poems, most recently Sweet Nothing. His poetry & prose have been widely published, both online & in print, at places like Columbia Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Forklift Ohio, Boston Review & Rain Taxi where he frequently contributes reviews. He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal & small press. Find him online at www.natepritts.com.

Rebecca Hazelton received an MFA from Notre Dame and a PhD from Florida State University. She recently completed a fellowship year as the Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will be teaching at Beloit College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, webConjunctions, FIELD, and others.
 
 
 
VOLUME I
 
Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), a dvd of poem-films, Little Blind Thing (Poor Claudia 2010), and two forthcoming books of poems. He co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Bruce Bond’s most recent collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells (A trilogy of three books; Etruscan, forthcoming), The Visible (LSU, forthcoming), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (Finalist, The Poet’s Prize, LSU, 2008).   Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review

Born and raised in Iowa, Daniel Khalastchi is a first-generation Iraqi Jewish American.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University. His first collection of poetry, Manoleria (2011), was awarded the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize, and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Kenyon Review, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly.  He lives in Milwaukee where he is also the co-editor of Rescue Press.

Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her work has appeared in such journals as AGNI, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and The Rumpus. A recipient of scholarships from The Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she is co-chair of VIDA’s Outreach Committee and an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (www.karacandito.com).

Joe Hall‘s first book of poems is Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean Press 2010). His poetry and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, Barrelhouse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Zone 3 and elsewhere. With Wade Fletcher he co-organizes the DC area reading series Cheryl’s Gone. He no longer lives in a trailer park.

Adam Day is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha. He is the winner of a 2011 Pushcart Prize, and has been nominated for a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, AGNI, American Poetry Review, Guernica, Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, BOMB, and elsewhere, and included in Best New Poets 2008. He is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council grant. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, and is an editor for the literary journals, Memorious and Catch Up.

Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago.  His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS.  His manuscript is called THE 580 STROPHES.

Ezekiel Black is a lecturer of English at Gainesville State College. Before this appointment, he attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Verse, Sonora Review, GlitterPony, Skein, Invisible Ear, Tomfoolery Review, Tarpaulin Sky, InDigest, Drunken Boat, CutBank, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakwood, Georgia and edits the audio poetry journal Pismire.

Franz Wright’s most recent works include Wheeling Motel, Earlier Poems, God’s Silence, and Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry). He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/ Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.

Sally Delehant is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Her work can be found in Calaveras, The Columbia Poetry Review and The Cultural Society. Sally has recently moved to Chicago where she works in commercial real estate and, of course, writes poetry.

Susan Tichy is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Gallowglass (2010) and Bone Pagoda (2007), both from Ahsahta Press. Her poems and mixed-genre works have appeared widely in the U.S. and Britain, and have been recognized by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous other awards. Since 1988 she has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at George Mason University. When not teaching, she lives in a ghost town in the Colorado Rockies.

Marc Rahe received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his poems have appeared in Gutcult, la fovea, Notnostrums, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. Marc lives in Iowa City and works for a human services agency. His first collection of poems, The Smaller Half, was published by Rescue+Press in 2010.
 

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash. His second book, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Recent poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere.

Anna Journey is the author of the collection, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. Her poems are published in a number of journals, including American Poetry Review, FIELD, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Shenandoah, and her essays appear in At Length, Blackbird, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Parnassus, and Plath Profiles. Journey holds a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston, and she recently received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California and for PEN Center USA.

Anne Barngrover is a recent graduate of Florida State University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Her work can be found in Caper Literary Journal, Big Lucks and The Houston Literary Review, among others. She currently teaches and writes in Tallahassee, Florida.

Emily Toder is a translator, archivist, and letterpress printer. She is the author of the chapbook Brushes With and the translator of The Life and Memoirs of Dr. Pi, a work of fiction. She lives and birds in Northampton, Mass.

Jeff Hipsher is the founding member of the artist collective The Gold County Paper Mill. His work, under the name Jak Cardini, has previously appeared in Caketrain, elimae, The Alice Blue Review and others. In 2010 he recieved an honorable mention in Sarabande’s Flo Gault Poetry Prize. He is the head editor of Catch Up ( www.catch-up.us ), a journal of comics and literature.

Jennifer Perrine’s first collection of poems, The Body Is No Machine (New Issues, 2007), won the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Her second book, In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press, 2011), received the 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. Perrine lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches creative writing and gender studies at Drake University, works as a yoga wellness coach, and organizes the Younger American Poets Reading Series.

A native of Iowa City, Josh Fomon is a second-year MFA student at the University of Montana and serves as Editor in Chief of CutBank. He has poems forthcoming from Caketrain.

Mary Ruefle’s latest book is Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010). A collection of her lectures, Madness, Rack and Honey, will be published by Wave in the fall of 2012.

Zach Savich is the author of three books of poetry, including The Firestorm, and a collection of lyric prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand.

Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers (Counterpoint 2012) and a collection of poems, Killing the Murnion Dogs (Black Lawrence Press 2011). His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Harvard Review, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals. He lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Iowa, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College.

Sean Bishop is the Associate Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where from 2010–2011 he was the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow. From 2008–2010 he was the managing editor of Gulf Coast, and in 2007 he was a recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry, and elsewhere.

REVIEWERS
 
Matthew Guenette is the author of two collections of poetry: American Busboy (U. of Akron Press, 2011) and Sudden Anthem (Dream Horse Press, 2008). He lives, works, and loses sleep in Madison, WI.
www.matthewguenette.com

Stephen Danos earned an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry from Columbia College Chicago, where he was the recipient of a Follett Fellowship and the Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, Court Green, Lo-Ball, Bateau, and Juked.