The Under Review - Issue 4 | Summer 2021

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CONTRIBUTOR NOTES
CHRIS ABBATE’s poems have appeared in Connecticut River Review, Cider Press Review, and Comstock
Review, among others. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net award nominee and has received awards
in the Nazim Hikmet and the North Carolina Poetry Society’s poetry contests. Abbate’s first book of
poetry, Talk About God, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. His second book, Words
for Flying, is forthcoming from FutureCycle Press.
CHRIS BELDEN is the author of two novels, Shriver (Simon & Schuster) and Carry-On (Rain Mountain Press),
and the story collection The Floating Lady of Lake Tawaba (New Rivers Press).
BRETT BIEBEL teaches writing and literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. His (mostly very) short
fiction has appeared in Chautauqua, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, Emrys Journal, and
elsewhere. His debut story collection, 48 Blitz is available from Split/Lip Press. You can follow him on
Twitter @bbl_brett.
KIMBERLY J. BROWN is the author of The I-35W Bridge Collapse: A Survivor’s Account of America’s
Crumbling Infrastructure (Potomac Books, 2018)—a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award in
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction. She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and a past awardwinner
of a Loft Mentor Series fellowship in creative nonfiction. Brown’s work has appeared in Puerto Del
Sol, Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, Pride!, Sleet Magazine, A View from the Loft, and elsewhere. Brown
holds an MFA from Hamline University.
KEITH BUZZARD is a teacher, writer, and musician from the Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago. He
specializes in the odd, fantastical, and curiosities of all kinds. He has written short films and performances
for The Second City, iO, as well as various live shows across the midwest and west coast. If you enjoy
esoteric and niche jokes, follow him on Twitter at @KeithJDrazzub.
MORROW DOWDLE’s most recent publishing credits include The Baltimore Review, Oyster River Pages, and
Adanna Literary Journal. Her first chapbook, Nature v. Nurture was released in 2018 by Artagem Graphic
Library. Dowdle’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net awards. Dowdle
has also written a graphic novel, An Unlikely Refugee, which now has a permanent exhibit at the North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. In addition to writing, Dowdle works as a physician assistant in
mental health.
OWEN ELPHICK is a writer, performer, and creator from Connecticut, currently based in the Philadelphia
area. He is the author of Thoughts & Prayers (Wilde Press, 2019), a book-length sequence of poems
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