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Gretchen Steele Pratt

Gretchen Steele Pratt’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Iowa Review, Southwest Review, AGNI Online, Indiana Review, RATTLE, and on Poetry Daily. She teaches English at Winthrop University and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Honor Moore

Honor Moore is a poet, critic, playwright, and editor of several volumes of poetry, including Poems from the Women’s Movement. Her book The Bishop’s Daughter was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman is a recipient of a New York Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America and the author of the chapbook Lure.

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D.S. Sulaitis

D.S. Sulaitis, winner of Boston Review’s 11th Annual Short Story Contest in 2004, is working on a fiction collection, A Distraction, which includes this story.

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Lynn Emanuel

Lynn Emanuel is the author of five books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly—, Noose and Hook, and, most recently, The Nerve Of It : Poems New and Selected, which was just awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

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Eileen G’Sell

Eileen G’Sell teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, and is the author of the chapbook Euphoria Takes One for the Team.

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Michele Glazer

Michele Glazer's last book is On Tact, & the Made Up World (Iowa, 2010). She teaches in the MFA program at Portland State University.

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Moni Mohsin

Moni Mohsin is a Pakistani novelist and journalist based in London. Her debut novel, The End of Innocence, was published in 2006.

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Andy Frazee

Andy Frazee is the author of the chapbook That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood.

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Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.

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Mark Dow

Mark Dow is author of American Gulag.

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Michael Lindgren

Michael Lindgren is a writer whose work has appeared in American Book Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Washington Post.

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David Mikhail

David Mikhail is a contributing writer for The Hill and Research Associate with the Project on Middle East Democracy.

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Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman is the author of The Submission.

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Jessica Treglia

Jessica Treglia lives in Irvine, California. Currently, she is working on a collection of linked stories, of which this is one.

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Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick’s most recent books include This Nest, Swift Passerine, and A Whaler’s Dictionary. He teaches at Colorado State University.

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Broc Rossell

Broc Rossell, a PhD student at the University of Denver, previously attended the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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Adam Day

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Karen Kovacik

Karen Kovacik is Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, West Branch, Poetry East, and numerous anthologies.

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Kate Jenkins

Kate Jenkins’s poems have appeared in Fawlt, Midwestern Gothic, and Barn Owl Review. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.

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Izabela Filipiak

Izabela Filipiak, author of several books of fiction and nonfiction and the poetry collection Mme Intuita, teaches at the University of Gdańsk.

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T. J. Jarrett

T. J. Jarrett's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, and Linebreak.

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Trey Sager

Trey Sager is author of O New York and The Weeds, a collaboration with painter Munro Galloway. He lives in New York City.