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Contributors’ Notes
Lake Erie Blue, was published by BkMk Press. She edited Ordering the
Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems, which was published by
the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Debra Gwartney is a member of the nonfiction faculty at Portland
State University. She has published fiction and nonfiction in Creative
Nonfiction, Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, and Salon.
She is co-editor with Barry Lopez of Home Ground: Language for an
American Landscape. Her memoir will be published by Houghton
Mifflin next year.
Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American
Studies at Yale University. An urban historian and architect, she has
written extensively about the history of American urban landscapes
and the politics of design. Her poems can be found in the Yale Review,
Southwest Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Verse Daily,
Witness, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her collection of poems
American Yard was published by David Robert Books. Recently she
has been a featured reader at the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas
and on the radio program, Poetry Connecticut.
Donna Hemans is the 2007–2008 Black Mountain Institute (University
of Nevada, Las Vegas) International Women’s Forum Fellow. Her first
novel, River Woman (Washington Square Press), was a finalist for the
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2003 and co-winner of the 2003–
2004 Towson University Prize for Literature. Her short fiction has
appeared in the Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, MaComere:
The Journal of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, THEMA, and
the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers
at Home and Abroad.
Randall Horton’s collection The Definition of Place was published in
the Main Street Rag Publishing Company’s Editor’s Select Series. He
is also co-editor of the anthology Fingernails Across the Chalkboard
(Third World Press). He has an MFA from Chicago State University
and is a Cave Canem Fellow.
Kelly Houle’s poems have appeared in Avocet, Red Rock Review, e: The
Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology, and The Spring of Nine Hazels. She
has an MFA from Arizona State University.