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LAYNIE BROWNE’s most recent collection of poems is Lost Parkour Ps(alms), published in two editions, one in English and one in French, from Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
MAXINE CHERNOFF is the author of fourteen books of poems, most recently Here (Counterpath). The current issue of Red Mare is devoted to her work.
EDWIDGE DANTICAT’s most recent book is Claire of the Sea Light (Vintage).
Science-fiction pioneer SAMUEL R. DELANY’s most recent novels are Phallos (Wesleyan University Press) and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (Magnus). He teaches at Temple University. “From Eclipse: A Romance” is © 2014 Samuel R. Delany.
“Brightfellow” is an excerpt from RIKKI DUCORNET’s recently completed ninth novel of the same title. Her collection of essays, The Deep Zoo, will be published by Coffee House in December 2014.
Since closing her long poem Drafts in 2012, RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS has written Interstices (sections of which were published by Subpress in 2014), Graphic Novella (forthcoming from Xexoxial), and Days and Works, due from Ahsahta in September 2016.
JULIA ELLIOTT recently published her first fiction collection, The Wilds; her first novel, The New and Improved Romie Futch, is forthcoming (both Tin House). She has received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, as well as a Pushcart Prize for her story in Conjunctions:56.
ELAINE EQUI’s books include Click and Clone and Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems (both Coffee House). She teaches at New York University and the New School.
BRIAN EVENSON’s most recent books are Immobility (Tor) and Windeye (Coffee House). A new collection of stories, A Collapse of Horses, is forthcoming from Coffee House in 2015. He teaches at Brown University.
BRANDON HOBSON is the author of Deep Ellum (Calamari), The Levitationist (Ravenna), and Desolation of Avenues Untold (forthcoming from CCM).
PAUL HOOVER’s most recent books of poetry are Desolation : Souvenir (Omnidawn) and En el idioma y en la tierra, translated by María Baranda (Conaculta). He has also published a collection of essays, Fables of Representation (University of Michigan Press).
ROBERT KELLY’s most recent publications are Oedipus after Colonus and Other Plays (drcicerobooks) and Winter Music, texts to the photo work of Susan Quasha (T-space). His collaboration with the painter Nathlie Provosty, The Color Mill, will be published in fall of 2014 (Spuyten Duyvil) as will his Collected Essays (Contra Mundum). He teaches at Bard College.
Among REBECCA LILLY’s (rebeccalilly.com) collections of poetry are You Want to Sell Me a Small Antique (Gibbs Smith) and Shadwell Hills (Birch Brook). She is also the author of The Insights of Higher Awareness and Ego and the Spiritual Self (both Humanics).
NATHANIEL MACKEY’s most recent book of poetry is Nod House; his newest, Blue Fasa, is forthcoming (both New Directions). He edits the literary magazine Hambone and teaches at Duke University.
CAROLE MASO’s most recent book is Mother & Child (Counterpoint). “World Book” is an excerpt from her novel in progress, The Bay of Angels.
EDIE MEIDAV is the author of the novels The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner); Crawl Space (FSG/Picador); Lola, California (FSG/Picador); and the forthcoming Dogs of Cuba. She teaches at UMass-Amherst.
KERRY MILLER (www.kerrymiller.co.uk) is a British mixed-media artist specializing in sculptures created from vintage books. Her exhibitions include a solo show at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery, as well as work in the prestigious “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, through November 16, 2014.
ANDREW MOSSIN is the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Epochal Body and The Veil (both Singing Horse), as well as the collection of critical essays Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan). He is at work on a new manuscript of poetry, The Book of Spells.
Other imagined translations from DANIEL NADLER’s The Lacunae have appeared or are forthcoming in Web Conjunctions, Lana Turner, Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly.
JOYCE CAROL OATES’s many books include the story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep and the forthcoming novel The Sacrifice (both Ecco).
The author of eight books of fiction, a biography, and a forthcoming collection of essays, A Solemn Pleasure (Bellevue), MELISSA PRITCHARD (www.melissapritchard.com) teaches at Arizona State University.
MINNA PROCTOR is the editor of The Literary Review and teaches writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is the author of Do You Hear What I Hear? (Viking) and is working on a personal-essay collection about conflict, dramatic structure, and resolution.
DONALD REVELL’s most recent poetry collection is Tantivy (Alice James). A translator from the French, he is also the director of graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON’s recent books include On Ghosts (Solid Objects), Counterpart (Ahsahta), and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing).
JOANNA SCOTT’s most recent novel is De Potter’s Grand Tour (FSG).
RANBIR SINGH SIDHU is the author of the collection of stories Good Indian Girls (HarperCollins India/Soft Skull).
The author of many volumes of poetry, COLE SWENSEN is the founding editor of La Presse Books. She coedited the Norton anthology American Hybrid and guest-edited the first annual Best American Experimental Writing (Omnidawn). Her new book, Landscapes on a Train, is forthcoming from Nightboat.
FREDERIC TUTEN’s novels include Van Gogh’s Bad Café (Black Classic) and The Green Hour, as well as the story collection Self Portraits: Fictions (both Norton). He received Pushcart Prizes for his stories in Conjunctions:54 and Conjunctions:60.
Poet and playwright CHRIS TYSH’s latest publications are Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues); Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox); and Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K (United Artists). She teaches at Wayne State University, Detroit.
ANNE WALDMAN is the author, most recently, of Gossamurmur (Penguin Poets), Jaguar Harmonics (Post Apollo), and the Jaguar Harmonics CD (Fast Speaking Music); and is coeditor of the anthology Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (Coffee House). She is the artistic director of the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University.
ELIOT WEINBERGER’s books of essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, and Oranges & Peanuts for Sale (all New Directions).
ADAM WEINSTEIN is a PhD candidate in creative writing and a Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah, and nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. The writing of the essays in this issue was supported by the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities.
Award-winning writer PAUL WEST’s most recent books are The Ice Lens and The Invisible Riviera (both Onager).
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