Published Spring/Summer 2007
 
Contributors' Notes
Poetry / Fiction | Essays / Interviews
Poetry / Fiction
Danner Darcleight calls himself "a laggard, a loafer, a liar. A major bean buyer." He was born in 1976. "Concrete Carnival" is his second essay in print.
Dean A. Faiello is an avid reader, crossword puzzle fanatic, student of meditation, and twelve-stepper who writes in the early mornings, inspired by espresso and sea gulls bleating. "Adivina" is his first published essay.
Doran Larson's fiction has appeared in a number of journals, and in Best American Short Stories. For the prison class he teaches, he receives an annual book and writing materials budget from Hamilton College, where he is associate professor of English and creative writing.
Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared in literary journals like Fourteen Hills, Fiction International, Permafrost, and Pindeldyboz, as well as numerous zines and anthologies. Visit him at www.samjmiller.com.
Emanuel Mitchell was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York, and aspires to be a great writer. "A Crazy Sunday" is his first essay.
Matthew Olzmann was a 2006 and 2007 Kundiman Fellow. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, Cortland Review, Hanging Loose, Pebble Lake Review and elsewhere.
Robert F. Piwowar is from Hamburg, New York. Born in 1968, he is a former middle-school teacher of social studies. "Anxiety Attacks" is his first published story.
Rachel Richardson hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attends Hamilton College in Central New York. She is currently completing her senior year with a concentration in creative writing. This is her first published work.
Judith Slater's poems appear in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Poet Lore, Chautauqua Literary Journal, AGNIonline, and elsewhere. She lives in Buffalo where she is a psychologist in private practice.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of Odalisque in Pieces (U of Arizona P, 2009) and Casanova Variations (Dos Press, 2009). She is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, the publisher of Noemi Press, and the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol.
Jerry Williams teaches at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He has published two collections of poems, Casino of the Sun (2003) and Admission (2010), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Essays / Interviews
Hazel Carby is the author of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the African American Woman Novelist (Oxford UP, 1987) and Race Men (Harvard UP, 1998), among others, and is currently working on a book to be titled Child of Empire. She is Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies at Yale University.
Amanda Claybaugh is the author of The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Cornell UP, 2006). She is an assistant professor of English at Columbia University.
Jim Cocola is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia and a resident scholar at the Georgia O'Keefe Museum Research Center for American Modernism in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works on modern and contemporary American literatures and cultures.
Victor Cohen was the managing editor of minnesota review in 2004-05, while completing his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working on an oral history of the New American Movement, a socialist-feminist organization active in the US throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. A selection of this research will be published in the fall 2008 issue of Works and Days.
Jonathan Culler's most recent book is The Literary in Theory (Stanford UP, 2007). He is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.
Michael Denning's most recent book is Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (Verso, 2004). He is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University.
Lisa Fluet is an assistant professor in the English department at Boston College. During 2007-2008, she was also a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her essays have appeared in NOVEL, Twentieth-Century Literature, and the collection Bad Modernisms (Duke UP, 2006).
David Gorman has published widely on the history and theory of literary criticism. A book on Russian Formalism is in progress. He teaches at Northern Illinois University, where he edited Style for many years.
Paul Grimstad is assistant professor of English at Yale. He is currently at work on a book on experience and experimental writing in Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry and William James. His writing has appeared in Radical Philosophy, Parallax, and Bookforum.
Maurice Lee is author of Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2005), reviewed in the minnesota review 69. He is also editing The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2009). He teaches at Boston University.
John Marsh teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also directs the Urbana-Champaign Odyssey Project, a free, college-accredited course in the humanities offered to low-income adults in the community. He is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 (U of Michigan P, 2006).
Joseph G. Ramsey is co-editor (with Victor Cohen and Graham Barnfield) of Reconstruction 8.1, a special issue on the theme of "Class, Culture, and Public Intellectuals," and has articles forthcoming in Mediations, Reconstruction, and Scribners’ American Writers, volume 18. He is an assistant professor of English at Fisher College in Boston.
Bruce Robbins' most recent book is Upward Mobility and the Common Good (Princeton UP, 2007). He is also the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU P, 1999), Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993), and The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Duke UP, 1986), and is co-editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature (2003).
Jennifer Ruth, Associate Professor of Literature at Portland State University, is the author of Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State UP, 2006).
Paul Youngquist teaches English at Penn State University, University Park, where he writes on science fiction, British Romanticism, and other illusions. He is the author of Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism (U of Minnesota P, 2003) and Madness and Blake's Myth (Penn State UP, 1989).
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