Contributor’s Notes

Lillian Yvonne Bertram’s first book, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, was awarded the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and will be published by Red Hen Press in 2012. A winner of the Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize for Short Prose and the Summer Literary Seminars Poetry Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alligator Juniper, Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Cream City Review, la fovea, jubilat, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Narrative Magazine, Suptropics, and others. Most recently a finalist for the Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition and Tupelo Press Snowboard Chapbook Award, she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah.(vol. 4)

J. Bradley is the author of Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009), The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot (Safety Third Enterprises, 2010), My Hands Are As Thick As Dreams (Patasola Press, 2011), A Patchwork of Rooms Furnished By Mistakes (Deckfight Press, 2011), Bodies Made Of Smoke (Housefire, 2011) and the upcoming e-chapbook Our Hearts Are Power Ballads (Artistically Declined Press, 2011). He is the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine and lives at iheartfailure.(vol. 4)

Brittany Cavallaro’s work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Gettysburg Review, The Journal, CutBank, Meridian, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the editor-in-chief of Devil’s Lake. This fall, she will begin her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as a Chancellors Fellow.(vol. 4)

MRB Chelko is the recipient of a 2013 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Manhattations. Her work has appeared numerous chapbooks and journals — current and forthcoming publications include: Anti-, Birdfeast, Poetry International, Sixth Finch, and Washington Square Review. She lives in Manhattan and holds an MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire.(vol. 4)(vol. 11)

Caroline Crew moves around. She contributes to We Who Are About To Die, runs the fledgling ILK journal and her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, PANK, >kill author and Artifice, among other places. If you want to find her she’s currently a grad student at Oxford University and blogs at flotsampoetry.(vol. 4)

Dé Lana R.A. Dameron won the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, selected by Elizabeth Alexander, for her book How God Ends Us. She has received fellowships from New York University, the Cave Canem Foundation, Soul Mountain and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.(vol. 4)

Mark DeCarteret’s work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Brevity & Echo: Short Short Stories by Emerson College Alums (Rose Metal Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars—62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. Flap, his fifth book, was published this year by Finishing Line Press.(vol. 4)

Alicia Gomez grew up in El Paso, TX. A finalist for the 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, she studied English at the University of Notre Dame and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work appears in TitMouse, SpringGun, and Re:Visions.(vol. 4)

David Greenspan is a twenty-two-year-old student living in South Florida. He is new to the world of publishing, and excited to be in the Vinyl family. David is a veteran spoken word poet who has released a cd of his work, entitled words from ID. He has gone to The National Poetry Slam and caused quite the ruckus. He has performed at colleges across Florida, as well as museums, dive-bars, and syringe exchanges. David’s newest venture is teaching performance poetry to developmentally disabled children on a high-school level. He blogs, under duress, at davidgreenspan.blogspot.com.(vol. 4)

Jeremy Halinen coedits Knockout Literary Magazine. What Other Choice, his first full-length collection of poems, won the 2010 Exquisite Disarray First Book Poetry Contest and is available at alibris.com. His poems have also appeared in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Crab Creek Review, the Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore, Sentence, and elsewhere. He resides in Seattle.(vol. 4)

Keetje Kuipers was the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, and was a Stegner Fellow from 2009-2010. Her first book of poems, Beautiful in the Mouth, was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions. It contains poems previously published in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Willow Springs, and AGNI, among others. Keetje is currently the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. She divides her time between Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Missoula, Montana, where she lives with her dog, Bishop, and does her best to catch a few fish. Visit www.keetjekuipers.com(vol. 4)

Quinn Latimer is an American poet and art critic based in Basel Switzerland. Her criticism appears regularly in Artforum and frieze, and her poems have been featured in Boston Review, The Paris Review, and The Last Magazine, among many other journals. Rumored Animals, her first book, won the 2010 American Poetry Journal Book Prize and will be published in 2011.(vol. 4)

Julie Lechevsky was awarded the 2001 Tennessee Chapbook Prize for her first collection of poems, two of which were selected by Billy Collins for inclusion in his Library of Congress website "Poetry 180." Her second collection was winner of the 2003 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in Seneca Review, 5 A.M., Hanging Loose, West Branch, Southern Poetry Review among others.(vol. 4)

Carmen Marin lives in Romania where she is a teacher and journalist. She writes articles for Romanian communities in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Her poems have appeared in Alternativa and Confluente Romanesti.(vol. 4)

Megan Moriarty is smarter than the average bear. She is a graduate of the Virginia Tech MFA program, and her poems have appeared in Rattle, Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2009, and elsewhere. She probably lives in West Virginia.(vol. 4)

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks How (Octopus Books) and What Happened to Limbo (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums and Factory Hollow Press. She teaches poetry at Flying Object. Her first full-length book, GOAT IN THE SNOW is forthcoming from Birds LLC.(vol. 4)

Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow who received his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. He also holds a BA in English from Kent State University in Ohio. He is currently a member of the Chicago Poetry Brothel and instructor and tutor for the Chicago City Colleges as well as a Poet in Residence for the Hands on Stanzas program in Chicago. His work has been published in The Arsenic Lobster, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, and also featured in Word 4: Type+Image Exhibit. He was also nominated for a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Literacy Award for his poem "Safety." He blogs here.(vol. 4)

Anne Shaw’s first book of poems is Undertow, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Hotel Amerika, Copper Nickel, and Barrow Street. Anne also has been featured in Poetry Daily and From the Fishouse. Her extended online poetry project can be found on Twitter here.(vol. 4)

Evie Shockley is the author of four poetry collections: the new black(Wesleyan 2011), a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks. A critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press this fall. Her poems and essays also appear or are forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies, including Callaloo. The Nation, Tri-Quarterly Online, and A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. She is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she teaches African American literature, contemporary poetics, and creative writing.(vol. 4)

Patricia Smith’s eight books include Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and one of NPR’s top five books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah will be released in spring 2012. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly and Best American Poetry 2011 and Best American Essays 2011. She is a professor at the /College of Staten Island, and teaches for Cave Canem and the MFA program of Sierra Nevada College.(vol. 4)

Claire van der Plas currently teaches foundations art courses and art criticism at Adams State College in Colorado. While primarily a painter, Claire works in other media including installation, performance, and collaborative art. She earned her MFA from University of Auckland and has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the UnitedStates.. Claire’s current project is an investigation of the relationship between cameras and people; painting and photography through considering Facebook as a portraiture medium.(vol. 4)

L. Lamar Wilson, winner of Cream City Review’s 2011 Beau Boudreaux Poetry Prize, has poems in or forthcoming in jubilat, African American Review, Callaloo, Connotation Press Online, No Tell Motel, Rattle, Tidal Basin Review and The 100 Best African-American Poems, among other journals and anthologies. His poems have been finalists for prizes from New Letters and Knockout, and his manuscript, Sacrilegion, was a finalist for Crab Orchard Review’s 2011 Open Competition Award. By day, he’s a PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill; by night, he’s a copy editor. In the wee hours of the morning, he writes.(vol. 4)