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Contributors’ Notes
Muses: Contemporary Work by Asian American Women. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York, and leads writing workshops for queer, homeless
youth. In 2005, she was chosen as a Kundiman Asian American Poet
Fellow.
Sita Bhaskar is the author of Shielding Her Modesty, which was
published in February 2006 by Frog Books, India. Shielding Her
Modesty is a collection of short stories set on both sides of the globe.
Included in this collection is “Your Self Storage” which won an
Honorable Mention in the Twenty-Four-Hour Writing Contest cosponsored
by the Capital Times and the Wisconsin Book Festival 2004.
She is the winner of Desilit’s Rapid Writing Contest and her winning
entry, “A Betrayal,” was published in Desilit Magazine. She is a finalist
in GSU Review’s 2007 fiction contest and her short story “Grievance
Cell” was published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue.
Michelle Bitting has work forthcoming or published in Narrative,
Swink, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Comstock
Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Small Spiral Notebook, Nimrod,
Southeast Review, Phoebe, Poetry Southeast, VOX, and RATTLE.
She has won the Glimmer Train, Rock & Sling Virginia Brendemeuhl
Award, and Poets On Parnassus poetry competitions. In January of
2007, she commenced work on an MFA in poetry through Pacific
University, Oregon.
Daniel C. Bryant’s short fiction has appeared in Nimrod and Bellevue
Literary Review, and is forthcoming in Hospital Drive and Madison
Review. His unpublished novel, “May We Waken One by One,” took
second place in the Fort Bend Writers Guild 2007 Novel Contest. Also,
his poetry and nonfiction have been published in a variety of literary
and medical magazines.
Helen Cho’s poetry has appeared in Field, Indiana Review, River Styx,
ACM, Spoon River, and Nimrod. Her first book manuscript was chosen
as a finalist by Ha Jin for AWP’s Donald Hall prize. This year, she was
a semi-finalist for the “Discovery”/The Nation prize. She is also a
peace activist, serves on the boards of the Feminist Majority and Ms.
Magazine, and is a mother of twin toddlers.
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has published