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Contributors’ Notes
two poetry collections from Louisiana State University Press,
Resurrection, winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award, and The
Afflicted Girls, and a novel from HarperCollins Publishers, Judy
Garland, Ginger Love. She is an associate professor of English and
creative writing at Queens College, the City University of New York,
where she directs the new MFA program. She is working on a new
collection of poems, “Breach.”
Melissa Crowe earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and
her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. Her work has
appeared in Calyx, Atlanta Review, and Seneca Review, and she reviews
books of poetry for the Georgia Review. She recently received a grant
from the Barbara Deming/Money for Women fund.
Jim Daniels’ recent publications include three collections of poetry—
Now Showing (ahadada books), Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies
(Eastern Washington University Press), winner of the Blue Lynx
Poetry Prize, and In Line for the Exterminator (Wayne State University
Press)—and a collection of fiction, Mr. Pleasant (Michigan State
University Press).
Chad Davidson is an associate professor of literature and creative
writing at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta, and author of
Consolation Miracle (Southern Illinois University Press). He has work
recently appearing or forthcoming in Barrow Street, DoubleTake,
Prairie Schooner, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines. He is a co-founder
and a board member of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization
committed to the discovery and cultivation of emerging Asian-
American poets. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship, his work has appeared in Quarterly West, Cream City
Review, Third Coast, and North American Review. Names Above
Houses, a book of his prose and verse, was a winner of the 2000
Crab Orchard Award Series and was published by Southern Illinois
University Press in 2001. Furious Lullaby, his second book, will be
published by Southern Illinois University Press in September 2007.
Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Assistant Professor of creative writing
at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a
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