... in her analysis of the Muslim head-scarf controversies in French schools, and it plays an even more prominent role in her forthcoming book, The Fantasy of Feminist History . She recently led a seminar on secularism at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she is on the faculty. She...

... a PhD student in English at Florida State University. Hannah Keziah Agustin is a writer from Manila, Philippines. Her work is found and forthcoming in Guernica, Prairie Schooner, AAWW s The Margins, Maine Review, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Wisconsin, where she studies film and English...

... prose, Intersex, is forthcoming in 2014. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in LIT, Washing- ton Square Review, Verse, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Caliban, PANK, Caketrain, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. Shauna Barbosa lives and writes in Boston. Her work has appeared in Metazen, Sundog...

...- tion is his first. Jaydn DeWald, a graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program, lives with his wife in San Francisco, where he writes, plays bass for the DeWald/Taylor Quintet, and serves as senior poetry editor for Silk Road. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal...

.... More about her and her work can be found at www.rondapiszkbroatch.com. CD Eskilson is a trans poet, editor, and educator from Los Angeles. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Redivider, among others. CD is poetry editor for Exposition Review...

..., Sixth Finch, The Journal, and Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry, with poems forthcom- ing in The Offing. He has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net three times. Before he returned to DC, he lived in Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. 135 minnesota review 96...

... appeared or are forthcoming in Winter Tangerine Review, Florida Review, Barely South Review, and TriQuarterly. Michael A. Chaney is a professor of English and chair of the African and African American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His book, Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks...

... Award and appears in Huizache, the Cortland Review, Borderlands, Iron Horse Review, Juked, decomP, and others. Alex Chertok has work published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, the Missouri Review, the Cincinnati Review, Quarterly West, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2016, among...

... Berrier is a sexuality educator in New York. Her book He Calls Me Sheryl is forthcoming. Michael Catherwood is a lecturer in English at Creighton Univer- sity. He is the author of Dare (2006). His second book of poems, If You Could Turn Around Quickly, was published during the sum- mer of 2016...

... © 2013 by Virginia Tech 2013 Contributors Creative Christopher Citro’s poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Arts and Letters Prime, Fourteen Hills, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Harpur Palate, and else- where. He won the 2006...

... and reviews appear or are forthcoming in Margie, Pleiades, Quarterly West, River Styx, and online at The Missouri Review. For more information, please visit Brian’s weblog “How a Poem Happens” (www.howapoemhappens.blogspot.com), an online anthology of interviews with poets...

... or is forthcoming in the I-70 Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Summerset Review, Solstice, Offing, and other fine journals. He is poetry coeditor for Harpur Palate and codirector of the Binghamton Poetry Project. Abigail Frankfurt is a writer and artist. Her prose poetry is coupled...

... Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 Contributors Creative Stine An is a Korean American poet, performer, and stand-up come- dian based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing, Elec- tric Literature, Black Warrior...

...: @amorak. Whittney Jones is an MFA candidate in poetry at Murray State Uni- versity. She lives in Southern Illinois and works at her town’s district library as Family Literacy Coordinator and Project Next Generation Mentor. She has work published or forthcoming in Parable Press Mag- azine and Zone...

... and operates a cut- flower farm on the eastern shore of Maryland with her husband. Lauren Annette Boulton holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Booth, Paper Nautilus, Bayou, 3288 Review, Philadelphia Stories, Gin- gerbread House...

... © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Contributors Creative Valerie Bandura’s first book, Freak Show, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. Her recent poems have appeared or will appear in Cimarron Review, Ploughshares, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Janée J. Baugher...

... Only the Borrowed Light. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, Cream City Review, FIELD, Meridian, Mid-American Review, Salt Hill Jour- nal, and Third Coast, among other places. Nadia Born is an emerging writer with a BA in creative writing from Northwestern University...

... work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Chat- tahoochee Review, Handsome, Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, and else- where. Originally from Virginia, he lives, writes, and teaches in Texas, where he received his MFA from the University of Houston. Danny Caine teaches composition...

... two children. Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of The Art of the Nipple(2013) and Naming the Unnameable An Approach to Poetry for New Genera- tions (forthcoming). Her poetry is featured in the 2013 Best New Poets anthology and has been published in over seventy journals and magazines...

... helped me place some of my own ghosts in their proper realm. Chuck Carlise was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter era. His chapbook, A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs, is forthcoming from Concrete Wolf (2011 contest winner), and his poems and essays...