Contributors’ Notes

Martha Baillie lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. Her novel The Incident Report was nominated for the Giller Prize. The Search for Heinrich Schlögel was an Oprah Magazine Editor’s Pick in September 2014.

Vanessa Blakeslee is the author of the debut novel Juventud (Curbside Splendor, 2015) and the story collection Train Shots (Burrow Press, 2014), winner of the 2014 IPPY Gold Medal in Short Fiction. Train Shots was long-listed for the 2014 Frank O’connor International Short Story Award and has been optioned for a feature film by writer/director Hannah Beth King.

Robert Drummond’s fiction has appeared in Arts & Letters, Sycamore Review, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, and elsewhere. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is at work on a novel about love, sex, and the apocalypse.

Marta Evans teaches fiction and creative nonfiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has also appeared in Tin House Online and Fence.

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s and the author of How to Read a Novelist (FSG). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and ZYZZYVA.

Matthew Pratt Guterl teaches at Brown University and is the author, most recently, of Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (2014).

Erina Harris is a Canadian poet. Her work has been published internationally. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is now completing her PHD in poetics at the University of Calgary. In 2014, she published her first collection, entitled The Stag Head Spoke, which was short-listed for the Canadian Authors’ Association Poetry Award.

Jacqueline Haskins is a biologist of watery wilds, from cypress swamps to cirque swales. She has received a Pushcart nomination and been a finalist in Oregon Quarterly’s Northwest Perspectives Contest. Her work