Contributors’ Notes

Christopher Bakken is the author of a culinary memoir, Honey, Olives, Octopus, and two books of poetry: Goat Funeral and After Greece. He teaches at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania and directs a summer writing program on the island of Thasos.

Stephen Burt is a professor of English at Harvard. His latest book is Belmont (2013).

Richard Deming is the author of the collection of poems Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman) and Listening on All Sides: Towards an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press). He teaches at Yale University and was recently the Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Sandra L. Dyas is a visual artist living in Iowa City. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1998. Sandra teaches art at Cornell College, and her work has been shown and published internationally.

Joseph Fazio was recently awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his fiction. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Post Road Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, The Macguffin, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston, where he is at work on a novel and a collection of stories.

James Galvin has published seven books of poetry and two prose works. He teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

C.S. Giscombe teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent and forthcoming books include Prairie Style, Ohio Railroads, and Border Towns. He is at work on a mixed-genre prose book titled Railroad Sense and a poetry book titled Plantation Songs.

Alan Golding teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Louisville. He is the author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry and of numerous essays on modernist and contemporary poetry. With Lynn Keller and Dee Morris, he coedits the Iowa Series on Contemporary