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Fall 2016


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Joan Dewig Kempf deJong is assistant dean of the College of Liberal Artsand associate professor of art at the ². For nearlytwenty-five years, she has taught college-level courses in graphic design, digitalphoto imaging, illustration, web design, interactive media, and 3D computergraphics. Her creative work has been shown in numerous invitational andcompetitive exhibitions and is included in private and corporate collections.Her current work consists of mixed media and computer-generated 3D graphics.

Poetry

is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming 2017), winner of the National Poetry Series, and Oxyana, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, forthcoming in 2017. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Brewer was born and raised in West Virginia.

is the author of five books of poems: Sycamore, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in March, 2017; The Raft, a National Poetry Series Award Winner; MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry; The Charm (2002); and LIP(2009). Her work appears recently in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and Blackbird. Fagan directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ohio State where she serves as Series Editor for The OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Poetry Prize.

Maggie Graber is a poet originally from the Midwest. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Her poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Jet Fuel Review, the Harpoon Review, GlitterMOB, the Button Poetry blog, Duende, and elsewhere. A former radio DJ and farmhand, she currently lives and teaches at the Cahaba Environmental Center on the Cahaba River in Alabama.

is the author of Fair Copy and Vow. Her poems have appeared inPoetry,The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2015.

has nine collections of poetry, most recently Revenance, listed as one of the 2014 “Standout” books by the Academy of American Poets, and the forthcoming In June the Labyrinth (Red Hen Press, 2017). Her work has appeared recently in Kestrel, Best American Poetry, Hotel Amerika, Prairie Schooner, and Field, among others. She holds the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University.

earned her MFA in creative writing as the Bernice KertFellow at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers’ Conference scholarship and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Five Points,Ninth Letter,American Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.

first collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the 2015 Michael WatersPoetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review,Ninth Letter, Mudlark, Asian American Literary Review, and DMQ Review. A graduateof Warren Wilson College’s MFA program for writers and the recipient offellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Hambidge Center,Kim works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the assistant dean forpublic service.

Kien Lam lives in Los Angeles, where he works as an esports writer. He received hisMFA in poetry from Indiana University. His work has appeared or is forthcomingin Ploughshares, Rattle, and Hobart, among others. His favorite reptile is a Gatorade.Follow him on Twitter @meanmisterkien.

Michael Marberry’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Sycamore Review,Indiana Review, West Branch, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. His work hasreceived a Pushcart Prize and has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series.Currently, Marberry lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he serves as coordinatorof the Poets-in-Print Reading Series. He is originally from rural Tennessee.

Leah Nielsen’s collection No Magic was published by Word Press in 2005.Side Effects May Include, a chapbook, appeared as its own volume from TheChapbook in 2014. Nielsen lives and teaches in Westfield, Massachusetts.

Annette Oxindine’s poems appear in Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, Crab CreekReview, Willow Springs, New Orleans Review, Hollins Critic, Winter TangerineReview, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland, she teachesliterature at Wright State University, in Ohio.

poems have appeared in Harvard Review, The KenyonReview, Ladowich, Yale Review, and other journals; her essays and reviews haveappeared in The Believer, Boston Review, Massachusetts Review, The Toast andother journals. Phillips teaches at Dickinson College.

third book, The Tornado Is the World, is forthcoming fromSaturnalia Books in December; her other books are The Girls of Peculiar (Saturnalia, 2012) and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia, 2008). Her poems have appearedin The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, and elsewhere.She co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Drew Pomeroy’s poetry has been published by The Louisville Review. He holdsan MFA from Spalding University, where he is currently leading an online alumniworkshop in poetry. Born and raised in Selma, Alabama, Pomeroy now lives andworks in Louisville, Kentucky, dividing his time between the Copper & Kingsbrandy distillery and the Kentucky Opera.

Daniel Eduardo Ruiz was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, but currently livesin Valparaíso, Chile, on a Fulbright Scholarship. His poems can or will be foundin The Journal, Harpur Palate, Minnesota Review, and elsewhere.

Britton Shurley’s poetry has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, andWacamaw. He has also received Emerging Artist Awards from the Kentucky ArtsCouncil in both 2011 and 2017. Shurley is currently an associate professor ofEnglish at West Kentucky Community & Technical College where he edits thejournal Exit 7 with his wife, poet Amelia Martens.

Brian Simoneau is the author of River Bound (C&R Press, 2014). His poemshave appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Boulevard, Crab OrchardReview, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, RHINO, and other journals,and his awards include a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’Conference and an emerging writer fellowship from The Writer’s Center.He lives in Connecticut with his family.

poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mid-AmericanReview, Bellingham Review, Redivider, Ruminate, and elsewhere. A mini-chapbook,Tracing the New Stars, was published in Rock & Sling. She is a graduate of the MFAprogram at Eastern Washington University and lives in Spokane, Washington.

most recent book, Immortal Medusa, was chosen as one ofKirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2015, and won the Adirondack Center forWriting Poetry Award. Prior books include Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Lifeand The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Prize, an IndependentPublishers Silver Medal, and a Hoffer award. A professor of English at the Collegeof Saint Rose in Albany, New York, Ungar teaches writing and literature.

Jennifer Whalen’s poems can be found or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast,Fugue, New South, Grist, The Boiler, and elsewhere. She was the 2015-2016 L.D.& LaVerne Harrell Clark House writer-in-residence at Texas State University.Residing in San Marcos, Texas, Whalen currently teaches college writing.

Katie Willingham teaches writing at the University of Michigan where sheearned her MFA. Her debut collection of poems, Unlikely Designs, is forthcomingfrom University of Chicago Press in 2017. Willingham has poems in such journalsas The Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, Whiskey Island, Phantom, and others.

Interview

Before becoming a novelist, , daughter of Tony Hillerman,worked as a nonfiction author and journalist. In 2013 she revived her father’sclassic Navajo mystery series with Spider Woman’s Daughter. Her second mystery,Rock with Wings, was released in 2015, and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.The third book in the new series, Song of the Lion, will debut in April 2017.

Fiction

teaches writing at Shippensburg University and lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their two sons. He is the author of five novels. His story in this issue, "Holding Your Peace," will be included in the collection In the Wake of Our Vows, due out from Fomite Press in 2017.

Matthew Socia’s stories have appeared in Tin House, CutBank, and Epiphany.He has received a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and anemerging writer fellowship from the Writers’ Room of Boston. He has an MFAfrom Emerson College. Originally from northern Michigan, Socia now lives inConnecticut.

Nonfiction

Justin Bigos's stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, The Best American Short Stories 2015, Ninth Letter, The Seattle Review, Memorious, and The Collagist, and a new story is forthcoming in Indiana Review. He is the author of the poetry chapbook Twenty Thousand Pigeons and co-editor of the literary journal Waxwing. He lives with his wife and daughter in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.

Cate Hennessey’s essays and book reviews have appeared in or are forthcomingfrom The Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, PANK, and TinderboxPoetry Journal. A Pushcart Prize recipient, she has been noted in The Best AmericanEssays and is a recent finalist for the Arts & Letters prize in creative nonfiction.Hennessey teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

is the author of eight collections of poetry and prose, mostrecently Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016) and When I Was Straight:Poems (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014). Her first lyric essay collection,Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books,2014), won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, and her newestcollection of poems, SIX (Red Hen Press, 2016), was selected by C.D. Wrightas the winner of the AROHO/ To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize. Wade teachesin the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviewsregularly for The Rumpus and Lambda Literary Review. She is married to AngieGriffin and lives on Hollywood Beach.