Editor
William Olsen is
a professor of English at Western Michigan University. He has received an NEA
fellowship, a Breadloaf Merilmykian fellowship and has won numerous awards for
his poetry including a Pushcart
Prize and two Academy of American Poets Awards. His poetry collections are Avenue of Vanishing (Northwestern, 2007), Vision of a Storm Cloud (Northwestern, 1996), The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers (University
of Illinois, 1988), and Trouble Lights (TriQuarterly Books, 2001).
Managing
Editor
Marianne Swierenga received her B.A. from Hope College and her M.F.A.
in poetry from Western Michigan University. She has been a fellow at the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts and her poems and essays have appeared in the Del
Sol Review, Event, North American Review, and elsewhere.
E-mail: marianne (dot) swierenga (at) wmich.edu | Office: 269-387-8185
Layout Editor
Kory Shrum, 2008/09 Graduate Assistant
Past Layout Editors: Jonathan Pugh, Lisa Lishman (2004/05), Curtis Van Donkelaar (2005/06), Elizabeth Marzoni (2006/07), and Natalie Giarratono (2007/08)
Assistants
to the Editor: Gary McDowell, Chad Sweeney,
and Kimberly Kolbe
Winter 2008 Interns: Matt Browning,
Alison Laurell, Michael Levan, Gary McDowell, Rebecah Pulsifer, Kory Shrum,
Cindy St. John, Laura Zawistowski
Advisory Editors
Stuart Dybek is the author
of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago,
and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Both I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago were New York Times Notable Books. Dybek has
also published two collections of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared
in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Poetry, Tin House, and
many other magazines, and have been widely anthologized, including work in both Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry. Among Dybek’s
numerous awards are a PEN/Malamud Prize “for distinguished achievement
in the short story,” a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, an Award
from the Academy of Arts and Letters, several O.Henry Prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship,
and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Nancy Eimers is the
author of three collections of poetry, A Grammer to Waking, No Moon,
chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt as winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize, and Destroying
Angel (Wesleyan University Press of New England, 1991). She has been the
recipient of a Nation "Discovery" award, two National Endowment
for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, and a 1998 Whiting Writers Award.
Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Best
American Poetry 1996, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American
Poetry, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Field, and Poetry Northwest,
and her poetry was recently featured in the 1999 chapbook issue of Black
Warrior Review. She teaches Creative Writing at Western Michigan University
and in the M.F.A. Program at Vermont College.
Jaimy Gordon's second
novel, She Drove Without Stopping, appeared in 1990 from Algonquin Books.
She is also the author of a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue (Burning Deck), a narrative poem, The Bend, The Lip, The Kid (Sun), and
the underground fantasy classic, Shamp-of-the-City-Solo (McPherson &
Company). With Peter Blickle, she translates from the German, most recently Lost Weddings, a novel by Maria Beig (Persea Books, 1990). Gordon has
received grants for her fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, and
has been a Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and the Bunting
Institute, Radcliffe College. She has received Creative Artist Grants twice
from the Michigan Council for the Arts. Her short story "A Night's Work"
was chosen for Best American Short Stories in 1995. In 1991 she won an Academy
Institute Award for fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Western Michigan
University.
Mark Halliday has
a Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College,
the University of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan University, Indiana University,
and has been at Ohio University since 1996. His books of poetry are Little
Star (1987), a National Poetry Series selection; Tasker Street (1992),
winner of the Juniper Prize; Selfwolf (1999); and Jab (University
of Chicago Press, 2002). Four of his poems have been featured in the online
magazine Slate. He teaches creative writing at Ohio University.
Richard Katrovas is the author of six collections of verse, a novel, a story collection, and
two memoirs, including The Years of Smashing Bricks (Carnegie Mellon
University Press, 2007). His poems, stories and essays have appeared in many
major journals and anthologies. The recipient of numerous grants and awards,
Katrovas is the founding director of the Prague Summer Program. He retired after
twenty years from the University of New Orleans in 2003, and joined the WMU
English Department.
J. Allyn Rosser's
first collection of poems, Bright Moves, won the Samuel French Morse
Poetry Prize. Her second, Misery Prefigured, was chosen by Rodney Jones
for the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Foiled Again, winner
of the New Criterion award, will be published in the fall of 2007 by
Ivan R. Dee in Chicago. She is the recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets Award
from the Academy of American Poets, the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry, a
Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She teaches at Ohio University.
