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Contributors’ Notes
Luisa A. Igloria (previously published as Maria Luisa A. Cariño) is
the author of nine books, most recently Trill & Mordent (WordTech
Editions). She is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing
Program at Old Dominion University. She is recipient of the 49 th
Parallel Poetry Prize from the Bellingham Review, the James Hearst
Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and the 2006 National
Writers Union Poetry Prize (selected by Adrienne Rich).
Melanie Jennings earned an MFA in fiction from Mills College and
a doctorate in American Literature from UC San Diego. She has
published short stories in spelunker flophouse, Crab Creek Review,
Oregon Literary Review, and Redwood Coast Review. Her short story,
“Spec of Love,” recently won the Ooligan Press Editor’s Choice Award.
She makes a living as a technical writer in Portland, Oregon.
Bryan Tso Jones has been published in the Minnesota Review, RUNES,
and Crab Orchard Review. He was a finalist for the 2006 Stan and
Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and he attended the Napa Valley Writer’s
Conference and Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference as a fellowship
recipient. He lives in Chico, California.
Jeremy B. Jones is an MFA student in the Nonfiction Writing
Program at the University of Iowa. He is originally from the Blue
Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This is his first published piece,
and he is currently at work on a collection of essays about Southern
Appalachia—Southern loyalties and junk cars, fiddles and curb
markets, grammar and land development.x
Colette Jonopulos lives, writes, and edits in Eugene, Oregon. Her
chapbook, The Burden of Wings, was published by Rattlesnake Press
in 2005. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Clackamas
Literary Review, cho, PMS, HeartLodge, In the Arms of Words: Poems
for Disaster Relief, and In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American
Poetic Responses to Fernando Pessoa. She currently co-edits and
publishes Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry.
Steve Kistulentz is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University.
His work in poetry and fiction has appeared in the Antioch Review,
Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mississippi Review, New
England Review, New Letters, and Quarterly West. He holds an MFA
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