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Contributors’ Notes
co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, and a Cave Canem Fellow. His
poetry appears in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University
of Georgia Press), Callaloo, and Louisville Review, and is forthcoming
in Zoland Poetry Volume II. Poetry editor for PLUCK: the Journal of
Affrilachian Arts & Culture, he is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and
now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jill M. Drumm received her MFA in creative writing from Florida
International University in Miami, and she teaches writing courses
full time at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. In
2006 she received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Marjorie
J. Wilson and RUNES Review poetry awards, and a University of New
Orleans Creative Nonfiction Study Abroad Fellowship (Madrid). Her
poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in MARGIE,
TriQuarterly, RUNES, Florida English, and Creative Nonfiction.
Shawn Fawson is a current resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, where
she works part time as a hospice chaplain and full time as a mother of
three. Recently, her poems have appeared in Natural Bridge, Vallum,
Tiger’s Eye, and Mid-American Review.
Chanda Feldman received an MFA from Cornell University. Her
poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal,
Northwest Review, and Poetry Northwest. She lives in San Francisco,
California.
Kim Foote, originally from New Jersey, received a 2002–03 Fulbright
Fellowship to Ghana. Her writing has appeared most recently in
Homelands (Seal Press), TransitionsAbroad.com, and I’ve Known Rivers:
The MoAD Stories Project, an online project of San Francisco’s Museum
of the African Diaspora. She has an MFA in creative writing from
Chicago State University and is the recipient of a 2007 Hedgebrook
writing residency.
Yahya Frederickson teaches writing and literature at Minnesota
State University Moorhead. A chapbook, Returning to Water, was
recently published by Dacotah Territory Press. Other poems of his
have appeared in Al-Masar, Flyway, Islamica Magazine, Quarter After
Eight, Quarterly West, and River Styx.