Contributors’ Notes

Kaveh Akbar founded and edits Divedapper. His poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Narrative, Pleiades, and elsewhere.

Hadara Bar-nadav’s newest book of poetry, The New Nudity, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2017. She is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), runner-up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (MARGIE/INTUIT House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. Hadara is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri–kansas City.

Bree Barton has published short fiction in PANK, Mid-american Review, Mcsweeney’s, and Literary Orphans and has received fellowships from OSU and Djerassi. She was a finalist for the 2014 Calvino Prize and the 2015 American Short Fiction Contest. Bree’s debut novel, Black Rose, comes out from Harpercollins in 2017. Find her online at breebarton.com or on Twitter @Breebartonya.

Wick Beavers is an award-winning photographer who has had creative pictures featured in many magazines ranging from Newsweek to Forbes, from New York magazine to Architectural Digest, and the list keeps plummeting. Or getting cooler. From New York City, he has since bailed and is living in Taos, NM, where he’s focusing on fine art photography. Recent work can be seen at wickbeavers.com.

Erica Bernheim is Associate Professor of English at Florida Southern College, where she also directs the creative writing program. She is the author of The Mimic Sea and Between the Room and the City. Her work has appeared recently in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Backlash, and Forklift, Ohio.

Tanya Bomsta’s essays have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, the Florida Review, and elsewhere, and she had an essay listed as a Notable in Best American Essays 2015. She is an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University and is currently at work on a memoir.