Issue Eight, March 2010
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work will also appear in the forthcoming anthology, Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
Hossannah Asuncion Kundiman. Sarah Lawrence. Los Angeles. Manila. Brooklyn. Calyx, Inc. FOURSQUARE journal. Free Verse. Ghoti Magazine. Lungfull! Storyscape Journal. Tuesday; An Art Project.
Elise Blackwell is the author of four novels Hunger, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Grub, and An Unfinished Score. Her short stories and cultural criticism have appeared in Witness, Topic, Seed, Global City Review, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. www.eliseblackwell.com
A native of Detroit, Cave Canem Fellow Tommye Blount resides in Novi, Michigan. An advertising graduate from Michigan State University, he’s had work published in various publications, including the Cave Canem XI Anthology. Currently, he is working on his manuscript, Keepers of the Aviary.
Maile Chapman's stories have appeared in A Public Space, The Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, and Post Road. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University and is currently a Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Anna Clark's writing has appeared in The American Prospect Online, AlterNet, Blood Lotus, Utne Reader, Common Dreams, Women's eNews, Religion Dispatches, The Women's International Perspective, ColorLines, Bitch Magazine, Writer's Journal, RH Reality Check, truthout, and many other publications. She edits the literary and social justice website, Isak. She lives and writes from Detroit, MI.
Adam Gallari (b. 1984) is an American ex-pat currently working on a novel and pursuing a PhD at the University of Exeter. Originally from New York, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, and his essays and fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous outlets, including The Quarterly Conversation, Fifth Wednesday Journal, therumpus.net, anderbo.com and The MacGuffin. His debut collection, We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now, will be published by Ampersand Books in April.
Amanda Goldblatt teaches creative nonfiction at Washington University in St. Louis, and is the editor of the online journal, Super Arrow. Her work has been published in Redivider, Sonora Review, Diagram and elsewhere. Catalpa: This Is Not True, a prose chapbook, will be available from Cupboard in Spring 2010.
John Madera edits Big Other and The Chapbook Review. He has been published most recently in The Brooklyn Rail, Opium Magazine, and Rain Taxi Review of Books, and forthcoming in The Review of Contemporary Fiction and Corduroy Mountain. He is editing a collection of essays on the craft of writing._ www.johnmadera.com.
Joan McMillan is a lecturer in creative writing and composition at San Jose State. Her work has appeared most recently in Bloodroot, Santa Clara Review, and Santa Fe Literary Review. Past publications have appeared in Poetry, The Chattahoochee Review, West Branch, Onthebus, New Millennium Writings, and Blue Mesa review. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Kathryn Scanlan's work has appeared in NOON, Everyday Genius, Wigleaf, and elimae, and she is the recent recipient of a fellowship & residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She is the nonfiction editor of MAKE Magazine, and co-director of Old Gold Exhibitions & Events, a collaborative project space in Chicago. She was educated at the University of Iowa and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Michael Stewart is currently the Rhode Island Council for the Arts Fellow in both fiction and poetry. His work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, and American Letters & Commentary. His novel(la) The Hieroglyphics will be out in 2011 mud luscious press. He lectures at Brown University.
Andrew R. Touhy is a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award, Fourteen Hills’ Bambi Holmes Fiction Prize, and a recent nominee for inclusion in Best New American Voices 2008. His work appears in such magazines as New American Writing, Web Conjunctions, New Orleans Review, Colorado Review, and Eleven Eleven. Shout and murmur him at nank73@hotmail.com.
Danielle Vogel is interested in writing that is concerned with trauma and anamnesis. Her writing envelops what it means to inhabit a body and a space that is damaged, where and how memory is stored and recovered within this body, and how to translate this into language. She dreams of writing a woman dislocating herself into place through narrative. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, the author of lit (Dancing Girl Press 2008), and her writing will be featured adjoined to the paintings of JL Schnabel during the summer of 2010 in a show titled Planchette.