Published Fall 2006
 
Contributors' Notes
Poetry & Fiction | Provocations, Interviews
& Essays
Poetry / Fiction
Aaron Anstett's collections are Sustenance (1998) and No Accident (2005), recipient of the 2006 Balcones Poetry Prize and the Nebraska Book Award in Poetry.
Justin Bigos' poems have appeared in NY Arts, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere.
Sean Bishop's verse has appeared in Poetry. He recently earned a degree in literature and social theory from Hampshire College.
Lonnie Busch's short stories have appeared in such publications as Chicago Quarterly Review, Southeast Review, The Iconoclast, and Pisgah Review.
E. R. Carlin grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Hunger, Rattle, Confluence, and elsewhere.
Felicity Frisbie, an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY, has published poems in Psychoanalytic Perspectives, National Catholic Reporter, and Moon Journal.
Eric Gudas's poems, essays, and literary interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhouse, and Iowa Review, and he is the author of Beautiful Monster (Swan Scythe, 2003).
Kevin King's first novel, All the Stars Came Out That Night, was published by Dutton in 1995. He is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts.
Joseph Millar's first book, Overtime, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; his second book, Fortune, has just been published by Eastern Washington University Press.
Miller Oberman received the Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2005 from Poetry and currently teaches at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, GA.
Helen Ruggieri is the author of Glimmer Girls (Mayapple, 1999) and The Character for Women (Foothills, 2002), among other collections and memoirs.
David Salner worked as an iron ore miner in northern Minnesota. His third collection, John Henry's Partner Speaks, appeared in 2006.
Carolyn Welch Scarbrough's poems and short stories have appeared in Poet Lore, Sundog, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. She works as a Pediatric ICU nurse.
Michelle M. Tokarczyk has published one book of poetry, The House I'm Running From, and is a scholar of working-class studies and coeditor of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory.
Will Watson spent ten years as a steel mill production laborer before opting for academe. He has published essays in College Literature and poetry in Blue Collar Review and Bottom Dog Press' Working Hard for the Money.
Provocations, Essays, and Interviews
Michael Bérubé is Paterno Family Professor of English at Penn State University. His most recent books are What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in American Education (Norton, 2006) and Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (U of North Carolina P, 2006).
Timothy Burke is the author of Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Duke, 1996) and co-author of Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up With Cartoon Culture (with Kevin Burke, St. Martin's, 1999).
Jim Cocola, a doctoral candidate in English at University of Virginia, is finishing a dissertation, on the imaginative making of place in contemporary American poetry.
Victor Cohen is visiting assistant professor of English at Indian University of Pennsylvania and was managing editor of minnesota review 2004-05. He published an interview about working class studies with Sherry Linkon and John Russo in issue 63-63 (2005).
Barbara Foley is a Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (U of Illinois P, 2003).
Todd J. Goddard earned a JD from University of Connecticut School of Law and is currently a doctoral candidate in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alice Haisman is a PhD candidate in American literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Hsuan L. Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, where he researches and teaches nineteenth-century U. S. literature, visual culture, and cultural geography.
Eric Leuschner is Assistant Professor of English at Fort Hays State University. His article "Body Damage: Dis-figuring the Academic in Academic Fiction" recently appeared in Review of Education.
Toril Moi is James Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her most recent book is Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy (Oxford, 2006).
William V. Spanos is a Distinguished Professor of English at Binghamton University. He was founding editor of boundary 2, and his most recent book is America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire (U of Minnesota P, 2000).
Eric Zinner is Editorial Director at New York University Press. |
