CONTRIBUTORS

Naja Marie Aidt was born in 1963 in Greenland. Her first book was the poetry collection, As Long as I’m Young. Since then, she has published numerous collections of poetry and short fiction, most recently the story collection Bavian (2006), which has won both the Critics Prize and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, the highest distinction an author can receive from the Nordic countries, for 2008. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including German and Italian. She has also written plays, film scripts, and children’s books.

Michael Anania most recent books are In Natural Light (Moyer Bell) and Heat Lines (Moyer Bell). He taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is now on the graduate faculty in writing at Northwestern University. He lives in Austin, Texas and on Lake Michigan.

Maria Teresa Andruetto was born in 1954 in Arroyo Cabral (Argentina). She has written extensively for both adults and children and has won many awards, including the Luis Jose de Tejeda Prize for her novel, Tama (1992), and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize (2002) for another novel, La mujer en cuestión. Her work has been translated into English, German, and Italian.

Doug Arnold’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, The Sulpher River Literary Review, Psychopoetica, The Pedestal Magazine, The Color Wheel, and Pegasus. His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan’s Poetry,” was published in the Fall issue of the Schuylkill Valley Journal.

Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt, Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light, and The Revisionist’s Dream, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings. She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Contributing Editor to The Literary Review, and on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Richard Becker’s poetry has appeared in America, Columbia, Cold Mountain Review, Red Wheelbarrow, and other journals. He teaches piano and coaches chamber music at the University of Richmond.

Madeleine Beckman is the author of Dead Boyfriends, a poetry collection. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing and journalism at Stern College for Women where she is Writer-in-Residence.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Slope, Aught, Swerve, Fence, and Cue. He teaches in the writing program at California College of the Arts and is the editor of Freehand, a journal devoted to handwritten work. His first book, Shy Green Fields, was published by No Tell Books in fall 2007.

Nina Berberova (1901-1993) is best known for her prose fiction and nonfiction, but she was also a poet, playwright, and translator. She left Russia in 1922 and lived in Paris until 1950, when she moved to the United States to teach at Yale and Princeton. English translations of her poetry have appeared in Cyphers, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Salt.

Steve Bradbury has three volumes of poetry in translation, most recently Feelings Above Sea Level: Prose Poems from the Chinese of Shang Qin (Zephyr Press, 2006). He lives in Taiwan, where he edits Full Tilt: a journal of East-Asian poetry, translation and the arts.

Rosa Alice Branco is the author of many collections of poetry, including A Woman Beloved and Animals of the Earth. She is a professor at the University of Aveiro and teaches the Psychology of Perception and Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Art and Design near Porto, Portugal. She is the organizer of an annual poetry festival in her hometown of Aveiro, serves as Secretary to the Portuguese PEN Club, and attends international poetry festivals all over the world. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.

P.K. Brask is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg. He has published poetry, short stories, drama, translations, interviews, and essays in several journals. His books include among others Essays on Kushner’s Angels (Blizzard Publishing, 1995). He wrote the libretto for Michael Matthews’s chamber opera Prince Kasper, which premiered in May 2005.

Duff Brenna has published five novels. His first novel, The Book of Mamie, won the AWP Award and was recently reprinted by Wordcraft of Oregon.

Lisbeth Brun was born in 1963 and studied architecture and became a Waldorf teacher. Her first book was the novel North of the Fjord (2005), followed the same year by another novel, The Condition of Things, and by The End of the Road (2006) and On the Border (2007), all from Gyldendal. She lives in Switzerland where she works as a Waldorf teacher.

Julia Butschkow was born in 1978 and published her first collection of poems in 1997 and first prose collection in 1999. She was educated at the Danish Writers School (1999-2001) and published Lunatia, a novel, in 2004, which received a three-year grant from the Danish Arts Council. Her next novel will be Apropos Opa.

René Guy Cadou was a follower of Max Jacob and a member of L’Ecole de Rochefort. His works include Bruit du coeur (1942), La vie rêvée (1944), and Les biens de ce monde (1951). Hélène ou le règne vegetal is his last book and was published posthumously. His poetry blends surrealism and Christianity with a deep love for nature and traditional country life.

Erik Campbell’s work recently appeared or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Tin House, and Confrontation. His first poetry collection, Arguments for Stillness (Curbstone Press, 2006), was named by Book Sense as one of the top ten poetry collections for 2007.

Huang Canran, born in Fujian in 1963, moved to Hong Kong in 1978. He has published three poetry books. He is also a translator of news articles and foreignlanguage poetry.

Kevin Carey lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he edits film and video and teaches at Salem State College. Most recent publications include: Riptide: An Anthology of Crime Fiction, The Paterson Literary Review, The Red Mountain Review, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Writing, The Comstock Review, and Lips.

Pai Chu-yi (722-846) was one of the first Chinese poets to have his work extensively translated into English (by the first great scholar-translator, Arthur Waley). His status as both “poet’s poet” and poet of the people may have contributed to the fact that he has recently inspired new books of translation by both David Hinton and Burton Watson, two of America’s leading translators.

Mathilde Walter Clark, a Danish-American writer, was born in 1970 and studied in Denmark and the USA. Her first novel, Thorsten Madsen’s Ego, appeared in 2004, and a collection of stories, Disorder Of Things, followed in 2005. She received the “Discovery of the Year” award from the Carlsberg Foundation in 2005 and, in 2006, a three-year grant from the Danish Arts Council. A featured columnist in several Danish newspapers and magazines, she is currently working on her second novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review and Connotations, and is forthcoming in Absinthe: New European Writing.

Basil Cleveland teaches ethics and poetry at Cambridge College (Cambridge, MA). His poems have recently appeared in Barrow Street, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Iowa Review, and The Bellingham Review.

Martha Collins’ book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006) received an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of “25 Books to Remember” by the New York Public Library. Collins has also published four collections of poetry and two chapbooks, including the recent Sheer (Barnwood Press, 2008), as well as two co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry: The Women Carry River Water by Nguyen Quang Thieu (UMass, 1997, with the author), and Green Rice by Lam Thi My Da (Curbstone, 2005, with Thuy Dinh). Her other awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and a Lannan residency fellowship. Editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor of the Oberlin College Press, Collins currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Christine Condon is a writer living in Hoboken, New Jersey. She earned her MFA in fiction from The New School and works at a Manhattan publishing company.

N Courtright, an Ohio native, currently resides in Austin, Texas. His work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Salamander, Zone 3, Lilies & Cannonballs, Caketrain, and Phoebe, among others.

Jim Daniels’ most recent book is Street, a collection of his poems with the photographs of Charlee Brodsky. He wrote and produced Dumpster, a 2006 independent film.

Cheng Danyi, born in Sichuan in 1963, is regarded in China as one of the ten leading poets of his generation. He made an international reading tour with his Wings of Summer, selected poems, 1984-1997. He presently lives and writes in Hong Kong.

Steve Davenport, Associate Director of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is the author of two books, Uncontainable Noise, winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award (Pavement Saw Press, 2006), and Murder on Gasoline Lake (2008), winner of the New American Press Spring 2007 Chapbook Contest. His poetry and prose have been published in many magazines. He also has written scholarly essays and reviews and given a number of presentations, with a specialty on Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Since 2004, he has been the Creative Nonfiction Editor of Ninth Letter.

William Delman received an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2006. His work has recently appeared in Chelsea, Salamander, Softblow, Shampoo and will soon be appearing in DMQ. He is a fiction editor at AGNI and a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Bronwen Densmore lives in Philadelphia where she teaches writing and is studying to become a librarian. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Pool, and The Harvard Review.

Xue Di, born in Beijing in 1957, has been a Freedom to Write Fellow at Brown University since he left China in 1989. He has three poetry books in English translation.

Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems from CavanKerry Press.

Wang Fan-chih (fl. 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries) was most likely, and it’s a good explanation for the dates, the pseudonym of a number of different otherwise anonymous poets, urban “guerilla” Buddhist missionary graffiti artists numerous among them.

Michael Farman is an engineer working on scientific ballooning for NASA. He studied Chinese a lifetime ago but has only in later years turned to poetry translation. His work has appeared in two anthologies and many literary and translation journals (including TLR), most recently in the current issues of Beacons and Exchanges.

Matthew Flannery occasionally renders Chinese or Georg Trakls’ poetry into English, and has written on both western classical music and Chinese seals and seal script. He has previously contributed several Chinese translations to The Literary Review.

Irvin Faust is the author of nine books of fiction. His most recent novel is Jim Dandy. He has won two O’Henry Awards.

Gary Fincke’s collection Standing Around the Heart was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2005. A new collection, The Fire Landscape from Lost Language, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2008.

Nikos Fokas was born in Greece in 1927. His publications include several collections of poetry, the most recent being Point of Focus and By the River Kolima, as well as books of essays and fiction. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Iowa.

Niels Frank was born in 1963 and published his first collection of poems, The Moment, in 1988. Many books followed, including a prose collection, Life in the Tropics (1998). His most recent books include Thanks for Yesterday, Fifteen Art Histories (2006), and an essay collection on modern literature, All the Rest Is a Lie (2007). His collection of poems, Small Gods, will be published in 2008.

Patrick Friesen is a poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. He lives in Vancouver and teaches at Kwantlen University College. Friesen has published numerous books of poetry and has written several stage and radio plays. He has just released a new book of poetry called Earth’s Crude Gravities with Harbour Publishing.

Lars Frost was born in 1973 and published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 2000. Four books have followed since—two novels, a collection of poems, and a book of prose pieces that he co-edited.

Tu Fu (712-770) is widely believed to be the greatest poet of Chinese antiquity.

Andrew Gallagher lives and teaches in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review and are forthcoming in Connecticut Poetry Review.

Peter J. Grieco has taught American literature in Ankara and Seoul, and now teaches writing at Buffalo State College. His publications include Swirling Voices: Considerations of Working-Class Poetic Property and Lyric Subject as Communal Fragment in the Works of Claude McKay. His poems have appeared in Current Accounts, Court Green, Arsenic Lobster, Nexus, Nthposition, Aquapolis, Puerto del Sol, Folio, Fox Cry Review, Heeltap, and Ship of Fools.

Thomas Halloran is a retired psychologist who studies vision. His poems have appeared in The Literary Review, The Comstock Review, Amelia, and elsewhere.

Lois Marie Harrod’s chapbook Firmament was published by Finishing Line Press in fall 2007. Recently published books include Spelling the World Backward and Put Your Sorry Side Out. She has been awarded three fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the last in 2003.

Niels Hav, poet and short story writer, lives in Copenhagen. Hav has published five collections of poetry and three books of short fiction—most recently We Are Here, a collection of poetry published by BookThug, Toronto (2006). A few of his poems and stories have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and Italian, and he has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards.

K.A. Hays’ work has appeared in Hudson Review, Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, and New Orleans Review. She completed an MFA at Brown in 2005. Her first book of poems, Dear Apocalypse, is forthcoming by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2009.

Li Ho’s life (791-817) was a brief flame much devoted to gloomy poems flecked with brilliant color.

Bai Hua, born in Sichuan in 1956, quit graduate school in 1987 and published his first poetry book in 1988. In 1992, he left his job as an English teacher to write full time.

Frank Hugus has been a Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1970. He has taught Scandinavian literature, historical Germanic linguistics, and Norse Mythology. His published research includes articles on Old Icelandic saga literature, modern Danish literature, and Hans Christian Andersen. Hugus has translated numerous works from Danish, including three novels by Hans Scherfig. Since 2002 he has been Associate Provost of International Programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Luo Hui, born in Hubei in 1973, is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. He is the translator of two poetry books—Wings of Summer by Cheng Dan-yi and delicate access by Madeleine Marie Slavick, which he translated into Chinese.

MC Hylands’ poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, Colorado Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Tyrone Jaeger’s work appears in Indiana Review, PRISM, Southeast Review, Descant, Nimrod, Beloit Fiction Journal, and others.

Thomas E. Kennedy’s fifteen books include the four novels of The Copenhagen Quartet (2002-2005), a collection of essays, The Literary Traveler (2005), a novel, A Passion in the Desert (2007), and story collection Cast Upon the Day, 11 Stories (2007).

Gerry LaFemina is the author of five collections, including Zarathustra in Love—a collection of prose poems. His latest book, The Parakeets of Brooklyn, received the 2003 Bordighera Prize.

Peter LaSalle’s latest book is a story collection, Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and in 2005 he received the Award for Distinguished Prose from the Antioch Review.

Ngo Tu Lap was born in 1962 and spent his childhood in Vinh Phu, about sixty miles from Hanoi, where his family, like many others, was evacuated during the Vietnam-American War. He studied navigation in the former U.S.S.R., became a navy captain, graduated from law school, and then began a career as a literary editor. He received a fellowship to study literature in Paris in 1995, and in 2006 completed a PhD at Illinois State University, where he also served as a Publishing Assistant for Dalkey Archive Press. In Vietnam, he has published three books of poems, four collections of short stories, three collections of essays, and translations from Russian, French, and English. He is a member of Vietnam Writers’ Union and Hanoi Writers’ Association, and has won seven prizes in Vietnam for his writing. He now teaches film theory and criticism at Vietnam National University in Hanoi.

Alexis Levitin’s translations have appeared in APR, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Letters, and Prairie Schooner, among others. His books include translations and co-translations of Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm, Eugenio Andrade’s Forbidden Words, Georgi Gospodinov’s And Other Stories, and a Portuguese version of Wallace Stevens’ Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. In 2008, his translation of Astrid Cabral’s Cage will be published by Host Publications.

Elinor Mattern’s work has been published in Washington Square, Without Haloes, Footwork: Paterson Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear, 25 Women’s Perspectives, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and received that program’s Director’s Award in Poetry in 2001.

David McDuff was born in 1945. His translations of Russian prose classics are published by Penguin, while Bloodaxe Books (UK) have issued his versions of contemporary Nordic poetry. In 2002 his translation of Pia Tafdrup’s collection Dronningeporten appeared from Bloodaxe as Queen’s Gate.

Nicole Melanson lives in Sydney with her husband and their two children. She writes both poetry and fiction, and recently received a grant from the Australian Council for the Arts.

Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Moon and Mercury and Troubled by an Angel. Her poem “Abu Ghraib Suggests the Isenheim Altarpiece” won the 2006 Ann Stanford Prize.

Michele Newcomb is a native of Ann Arbor, MI. She has poems published or forthcoming in Pearl, Sow’s Ear, Plainsongs, The Ledge, Red Rock Review, Ellipsis, and others.

D. Nurkse’s most recent book, Burnt Island, was published by Knopf in 2005. New work is in The Times Literary Supplement and The New Yorker.

Mary Rose O’Reilley is the author of The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker Buddhist Shepherd (Milkweed Editions, 2000) and The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (Milkweed Editions, 2006). Her first book of poetry, Half Wild (2006), won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also is the author of several books about teaching, including The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life (2005). Recently retired from university teaching, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she works at being a potter, gardener, and folk musician.

Benjamin Paloff is a poetry editor for Boston Review and an assistant professor of Slavic and comparative literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Modern Review, The New Republic, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and he is the translator, most recently, of Tworki, a novel by Marek Bienczyk (Northwestern University Press, 2008).

Aimee Parkison’s story collection, Woman with Dark Horses, was published by Starcherone Books. She recently won a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship and is working on a novel while teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Umberto Piersanti is considered the poetic voice of post-war Urbino and one of today’s preeminent Italian poets. In 2008, a new collection will be published by Einaudi.

Daniel Polikoff’s collection of poems Dragon Ship was published by Tebot Bach.

Nancy Priff received her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She writes fiction and poetry and is a past recipient of a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Doug Ramspeck’s work has appeared in West Branch, Confrontation Magazine, Connecticut Review, Roanoke Review, Seneca Review, Rattle, Rhino, and Hunger Mountain.

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Augusto Rodríguez, born in 1979, is one of Ecuador’s youngest writers. He has published four collections of poetry in the last seven years. Fernando Cazón Vera has praised his work for its frank confrontation with the problems and dilemmas of the new generation. He lived and studied in Chile for a decade and considers that country a key influence on his poetry. Along with being a major voice of the younger generation, Rodríguez has played a role in promoting cultural awareness in high school readers as a member of the cultural club Buseta de Papel, which has had an enormous impact on the literary life of Guayaquil. His books include Ausencia (1999), Mientras ella mata mosquitos (2004), Animales salvajes (2005), and La bestia que me habita (2005).

J.P. Seaton is America’s most widely anthologized translator of Chinese poetry. His most recent book is The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry. He’s also proud to have published his first work in TLR in 1980, when Luo Hui was seven years old.

Shya Scanlon received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. Visit him online at www.shyascanlon.com.

Su Shih (1037-1101) was a model literatus, a thousand years famous for everything he did, and he did much: high official, political scientist, thinker, writer, poet, master calligrapher, renowned painter of bamboo.

Neal Sokol is the author of Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). He is also responsible for several works on art and culture, including, most recently, the introduction to a new edition of Frederic Raphael’s classic novel, Lindmann, reissued by Five Leaves Press in 2008.

Andrzej Sosnowski, born in Warsaw in 1959, lectures on American literature at Warsaw University and is an editor at Literatura na Swiecie. He received the Illakowiczowna Prize for best first collection in 1992, the prestigious Koscielski Prize in 1997, the Odra Prize in 1998, and most recently the Silesius Prize for his latest book, Po teczy [Over the Rainbow] (2007). His other books include: Zycie na Korei [Life in Korea] (1992), Nouvelles Impressions d’Amerique (1994), Sezon na Helu [A Season in Hell] (1994), Stancje [Lodgings] (1997), Konwój. Opera [Convoy. An Opera] (1999), Zoom (2000), Taxi (2003), Gdzie koniec teczy nie dotyka ziemi [Where the End of the Rainbow Does Not Touch the Ground] (2005), and the essay collection Najryzykowniej [Riskiest] (2007). His translations include selected Cantos by Ezra Pound, selected poems by John Ashbery, Ronald Firbank’s The Flower Beneath the Foot, and Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies.

Samuel Saint Thomas was born in a gritty Pennsylvania steel town to Jazz musicians who both became Pentecostal preachers. A former founding member of a religious order, Samuel has since earned his BA in both Philosophy and English from East Stroudsburg University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Besides his various creative interests, he teaches composition at a small suburban university and is restoring a Chinese Tea House in the mountains outside New York City.

Tomaz Salamun lives in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in America. His new book Woods and Chalices will be published by Harcourt in Spring 2008.

Paul Schlueter, author (The Novels of Doris Lessing, Shirley Ann Grau) and editor/co-editor (An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, A Small Personal Voice: Essays, Reviews, Interviews by Doris Lessing, and other books), was Harry T. Moore’s first doctoral student at Southern Illinois University and met Caresse Crosby through Moore. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Jena Salon’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in n+1, Upstart Crows, and The Literary Review. She is the Review Editor for The Literary Review and teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Ann Snodgrass’s recent work has appeared in The Harvard Review, American Letters & Commentary, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among others. Her chapbook, No Description of the World, was published last year by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Cambridge and teaches at M.I.T.

Katherine Soniat’s The Fire Setters is available through The Literary Review/Web Del Sol On-line Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize (Iowa UP). Poems are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, and Tiferet.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His graphic novel Mr. Spic Goes to Washington (Soft Skull/Counterpoint), illustrated by Roberto Weil, has just been published. Other books include Love and Language (Yale) and Resurrecting Hebrew (Schocken).

Alfonsina Storni was born in Switzerland but lived most of her life in Argentina. She is considered one of the preeminent modernist voices in Latin America poetry, although her work has received scant attention in this country.

Susan Thomas has won the Iowa Poetry Award from Iowa Review and the Ann Stanford Prize from University of Southern California. Her collection, State of Blessed Gluttony, won the Benjamin Saltman Prize. Her recent work has appeared in Mississippi Review, MARGIE, Paterson Review, and Potomac Review. Finishing Line Press is publishing a new chapbook, Voice of the Empty Notebook.

Shu Ting, born in Fujian in 1952, worked in factories and wrote poetry in the 1970s. She achieved prominence in the early 1980s as the leading female voice of the Misty Poetry school.

César Vallejo Mendoza was born in Peru in 1892 and moved to Paris in 1923. He died in 1938. He produced a variety of works—novels, plays, reportage—but is known for his innovative poems, two volumes of which were published during his lifetime—Heraldos Negros and Trilce—and two posthumously—Poemas Humanos and España, aparte de mí este caliz. His work has grown in stature with the passage of the years, and today, though his hermeticism is a deterrent to widespread fame, his work is considered among the most important in the Latin American canon.

Laura van den Berg attends the MFA program at Emerson College, where she is the editor-in-chief of Redivider and a Ploughshares staff member. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, The Northwest Review, The Louisville Review, The Greensboro Review, The Indiana Review, American Short Fiction, and One Story, among others. Her stories have also received awards from Glimmer Train and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her first collection of stories is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2009.

Roberto Weil is a syndicated cartoonist and painter living in Caracas, Venezuela. He illustrated Ilan Stavans’ Mr. Spic Goes to Washington (Soft Skull/Counterpoint). www.weil.com.ve

Tom Whalen’s stories have appeared recently or are forthcoming in AGNI, Fiction International, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Idaho Review, The Iowa Review, Marginalia, Northwest Review, and The Texas Review.

Jonah Winter’s poems have appeared in Octopus and The Paris Review.

Paul-Victor Winters is a writer, high school teacher, and occasional adjunct professor living in southern New Jersey. Recent poems appear in Tattoo Highway and Philadelphia Stories.

Charles Wyatt is the author of three books of fiction and a poetry chapbook. He has poems forthcoming in Nimrod, Artful Dodge, and The Beloit Poetry Journal.