ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Julyan G. Peard was brought up in Argentina; she lived in England for six years, lived in New York for twelve years and currently lives in San Francisco, where she…    read more

Kerry Hardie has published seven collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, Ireland. Her Selected Poems were published by Bloodaxe Books, U. K., which will also publish her next collection…    read more

Traci Brimhall has received the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has…    read more

Steve Gehrke has published three books, most recently Michelangelo’s Seizure, which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of Illinois Press in 2007. His other books…    read more

Dwight Allen grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Lawrence University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker for not quite…    read more

Todd James Pierce is the author of the novel A Woman of Stone and the short-story collection Newsworld, which won the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His recent work has appeared in…    read more

Robert Kimber has spent much of his life in country places and pursuits. His books, which include A Canoeist’s Sketchbook; Upcountry: Reflections from a Rural Life; and Living Wild and Domestic: The Education of…    read more

Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002) and Native Guard (2006). Her forthcoming book of prose,Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, will appear in…    read more

Peter LaSalle’s most recent books are a novel, Mariposa’s Song (The Americas Series, Texas Tech University Press, 2012) and a story collection, Tell Borges If You See Him (University of…    read more

Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen novels, most recently The Probable Future, one book of stories, Local Girls, and five books for children, including Green Angel. Her book of…    read more