Published Fall/Winter 2007
 
Contributors' Notes
Poetry / Fiction | Essays / Interviews
Poetry / Fiction
Tom Boswell is a writer, photographer, and community organizer residing near Madison, Wisconsin. He was awarded a Fishtrap Fellowship in Poetry in 2006.
Jessica D. Hand earned a Creative Writing BA from Carnegie Mellon University and is working on her MFA at Georgia State.
Tracey Knapp lives in San Francisco, where she works as a graphic designer. Her poems have appeared in No Tell Motel, the Carolina Quarterly "Emerging Voices" issue, and elsewhere.
David Dodd Lee is the author of four books of poems, including Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002) and Abrupt Rural (New Issues, 2004). He teaches at Indiana University South Bend.
Paula Melton has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her writing has appeared in Café Review and Iowa Review.
David Salner worked as an iron ore miner, steelworker, and machinist. His work has appeared in North American Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, and many other places, and his most recent book is John Henry's Partner Speaks (Pudding House, 2006).
Michael Sarabia lives and works in East LA, teaching English and Social Studies at Garfield High School.
Mithran Somasundrum grew up in England and currently lives and works in Bangkok. His recent fiction has appeared in The Sun, Natural Bridge, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
David Yost, a former Peace Corps volunteer, recently returned from his second trip to Thailand working with Burmese refugees. His fiction has appeared in The Mid-American Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
Essays / Interviews
M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University. His many publications include The Mirror and the Lamp, Natural Supernaturalism, and Doing Things with Texts. He is general editor emeritus of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
David Bartholomae is Professor and current chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching and (with Anthony R. Petrosky) the textbook Ways of Reading.
Ben Bunnell is the Manager of Library Partnerships for Google Book Search. He has worked as a business research librarian at a venture capital firm and holds a master's in library science and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Larry Ceplair is co-author of The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960 and author of the recent The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico. He conducted many interviews for the UCLA Oral History blacklist program and curated an exhibit on the blacklist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Victor Cohen lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on an oral history of the New American Movement. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and was managing editor of minnesota review in 2004-05.
Frank Farmer is the author of Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin. He was recently named Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor of English at the University of Kansas.
Todd J. Goddard has a JD from University of Connecticut School of Law and is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Susanne E. Hall is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Irvine, where she is completing a dissertation on 1960s US poetry, New Left politics, and mass media.
David Harvey's many books include The Condition of Postmodernity, Limits to Capital, and, most recently, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. He is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
John Holbo is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He blogs at The Valve and Crooked Timber and is an editor for Parlor Press.
Matt Hollrah is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of First-Year Composition at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Scott Eric Kaufman is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Irvine. His writing appears regularly on The Valve and on his own blog, Acephalous.
Nancy Kricorian was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, MA. She has published two novels, Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and Fire and also works as the New York City coordinator for CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE.
Daniel Markowicz is a PhD student in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tedra Osell is currently an unemployed academic and a paid blogger. Her print publications include popular essays and academic articles about 18th- and 21st-century feminism, blogging, anonymity, and academic life. She writes the blog Bitch Ph.D.
David R. Shumway is the author of Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis and is finishing work on Classic Rockers: The Cultural Significance of the Stars.
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