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Land of Filth and Sunshine,ÌýHis Last Lunch,ÌýDo It Father,ÌýA Bitter Heap,ÌýVarious Ways of Doing Things,ÌýJohnny Appleseed,ÌýA Bright and Shining Star,ÌýAmongst Gentlemen,ÌýThe Cockfighter,ÌýOf Doubt and Paranoia, ²¹²Ô»åÌýThey Came from the Country— is currently an instructor of drawing and printmaking at the Ã山ǿ¼é in Evansville, Indiana, and takes part in a multitude of juried and group exhibitions on a regional and national level. Kosten has received various awards and has works in a number of collections at universities and museums across the country.

Poetry

"Train from the South"—Catherine AndersonÌýis the author of two collections of poetry,ÌýThe Work of HandsÌý(Perugia Press) ²¹²Ô»åÌýIn the Mother TongueÌý(Alice James Books). Poems have appeared inÌýSouthern Review,ÌýPrairie Schooner,ÌýThe Harvard Review, and others. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

"First Touch"—Jazzy DanzigerÌýis currently a Henry Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner fellow in the MFA program at the University of Virginia. Her work has been published in Mid-American ReviewÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýBoxcar Poetry Review.

"Cutthroat"—A native of Kentuckiana,ÌýChris Mattingly, has published poems in The Louisville Review, Margie: The Journal of American Poetry, ²¹²Ô»åÌýPublic Republic.ÌýHe also has been the featured poet for the award-winning radio programÌýAccentsÌýon Lexington's WRFL.ÌýHis chapbookÌýAD HOCÌýis forthcoming from Q Avenue Press. Mattingly is currently finishing his MFA. in Poetry from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

"Out of Death valley"—Rick Anthony Furtak'sÌýpoems and translations have recently appeared inÌýJanus Head, Illuminations, Poetry Depth,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýBlue Unicorn.

"The Web"—Pamela Garvey'sÌýchapbookÌýFearÌýis available from Finishing Line Press. She has published poetry in many literary journals includingÌýThe North American Review,ÌýSonora Review,ÌýThe Spoon River Poetry Review,ÌýPleiades, and others. Garvey is an associate professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, and lives in the city of St. Louis with her husband and son.

"Isa" and "Those Days We Ate the Knuckles from Our Fingers"—Otis HaschemeyerÌýattendedÌýStanford University as a Stegner Fellow, spent a year at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and currently lives in Oregon with writer Zondie Zinke and their daughter, Ozymandius WildÌý Zhaschemeyerinke.

"The Fathers Who Never Seem to Speak"—Angie MacriÌýwas born and raised in southern Illinois.ÌýA recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she teaches in Little Rock. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming inÌýCrab Orchard Review, Folio, Nimrod, Quiddity, Redactions,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýTar River Poetry,Ìýamong others.

"Teaching Myself to Type"—Linda Lancione MoyerÌýwrites poetry, essays, and fiction.ÌýHer work has appeared inÌýAtlanta Review,ÌýCimarron Review,Ìý°ä°ù²¹³ú²â³ó´Ç°ù²õ±ð, Jabberwock,ÌýThe MacGuffin,ÌýNotre Dame Review,ÌýPoet Lore,ÌýandÌýPost Road, among other literary journals, and will soon appear inÌýCompass Rose,Connecticut Review, ²¹²Ô»åÌýEclipse. Her most recent chapbook,Ìý2% Organic, 32 Short Poems from a West Marin Dairy Barn, is a best seller at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley, California, her local independent bookstore. She's recently been a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in New Mexico.

"These Words Are Not Ã山ǿ¼é"—Jake RicafrenteÌýholds an MFA from The Johns Hopkins University and is pursuing a Ph D at Texas Tech University as a Chancellor's Fellow.ÌýHis work has appeared or is forthcoming inÌýThe Cincinnati Review, South Carolina Review, Sewanee Theological Review,Ìýand elsewhere.ÌýHe resides in Richmond, Texas.

"I Know the Neck Pain," "I Almost Sent a Different Card," and "Your Father's Been Hiding"—Hilary SiderisÌýis the author of two chapbooks,ÌýThe Orange Juice Is OverÌý(Finishing Line Press) ²¹²Ô»åÌýBabyÌý(Pudding House Press). Her poems are forthcoming inÌýBrooklyn Review, Confrontation, ²¹²Ô»åÌýConnecticut Review.ÌýSideris lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Fiction

"Such Great Misery of Late"—Jon DaviesÌýis a native of California, currently residing in Georgia. His work has appeared in such places asÌýCutbank, Summerset Review, ²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Yalobusha Review.

"Vivian's Story"—Faith S. Holsaert'sÌýdefining experience was as the daughter of two mothers in a biracial 1950s household.ÌýWith five others she is an editor of the forthcomingÌýHands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCCÌý(University of Illinois Press). She lived for many years and raised her children in West Virginia and now lives with her partner in Durham, North Carolina, where she is working on her third novel.

"Mr. Smith's Tip-Top Tale of Woe and Horror"—Nancy HolyokeÌýhas worked for The New Yorker, Wigwag, American GirlÌýmagazine, and the Rowland Reading Foundation. She's the author of a half-dozen children's books and the editor of far more.ÌýHolyoke has an MFA from the Iowa Workshop.

"The Natural Order of Things"—Scott SaalmanÌýis a widely unread writer residing in Jasper, Indiana.ÌýHis work has also been represented in the anthologyÌýHome Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana; Lost Magazine; The Evansville Review; Evansville LivingÌýmagazine; WNIN Public Radio's "This I Believe";ÌýThe Coconut Telegraph; The Flying Island; Country Magazine; Editor's Workshop; and numerous newspapers.ÌýSaalman's humor column appears frequently inÌýThe HeraldÌý(Dubois County, Indiana).

"±«²Ô·É²¹°ù°ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð»å"—Jay ShearerÌýlives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches (UIC, Purdue Calumet) and writes (fiction, essays, songs). He is currently a PH D candidate in English Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he won the 2007 Goodnow fellowship award for prose.ÌýHis writing has appeared most recently inÌýOther Voices, Beloit Fiction Journal, Main Street Rag, ²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Southeast Review. Shearer lives on the west side of Chicago with his wife and son.

Nonfiction

"Hiddenscape"—In the midst of climate change,ÌýBarbara HaasÌýfinds it necessary to focus her attention on the Ice Age, especially the Des Moines Lobe, the last continental glacier to visit the U.S. Other Pleistocene Epoch essays of hers have appeared inÌýThe Wapsipinicon Almanac, theÌýIowa ReviewÌýand elsewhere. She teaches in the Creative Writing & Environment MFA program at Iowa State University.

"My Skillet and I are Disappearing"—Robert Long ForemanÌýis from Wheeling, West Virginia. His nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming inÌýPleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýNorth Dakota Quarterly, among other journals. One of his essays was listed in "Notable Essays" ofÌýBest American Essays 2008.

ReviewsÌý

"The Best American Poetry 2009," and "Black Sabbatical"—Contributing editor Brenda DeMartini’sÌýstories and poems have appeared inÌýConfrontation,ÌýKansas Quarterly,ÌýMinnesota Review,ÌýMississippi Mud,ÌýThe Sun, ²¹²Ô»åÌýThree Rivers Poetry Journal.