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The Amish quilts featured in the spring 2016 issue are from the 91社区鈥檚听Morton Quilt collection, a part of the greater 91社区 Art Collection. The听Morton鈥檚 (Judy Laval 鈥�73 and the late Thomas R. Morton of Newburgh,听Indiana) began this collection about thirty years ago. It was borne out of their annual visits to the Daviess County Quilt Auction and the eventual friendships听that developed with members of the Southern Indiana Amish community.

founded and edits Divedapper, a home for dialogues with the听most vital voices in contemporary poetry. His poems have appeared recently in听American Poetry Review, Narrative, Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, PBS NewsHour,听and elsewhere. Previously, he ran The Quirk, a for-charity print literary journal.听He has also served as poetry editor for BOOTH. Akbar鈥檚 chapbook, Portrait of the听Alcoholic, will be out in January with Sibling Rivalry Press.

is the author of The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State University Press, 2015), selected by Mark Doty for the Wick Poetry Prize and named a Split This Rock Spectacular Book of 2015. He has published writing and comics in Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Blackbird, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. Bendorf lives in Washington, DC, where he co-founded the Mount Pleasant Poetry Project.

is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), and the forthcoming Saudade (Copper Canyon). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry. She lives in Manhattan, KS, and teaches at Kansas State University.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of Rocket Fantastic (forthcoming), Apocalyptic Swing(2009), and The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005), all from Persea Books. Her poems have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Poetry, and other journals. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including The Paris Review鈥檚 Bernard F. Conners Prize; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers Award; a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Civitella di Ranieri fellowship; and Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship in Marfa, Texas. Calvoccoressi is the senior poetry editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

is a Tunisian-American poet and received her MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. The recipient of fellowships from Dickinson House and Quest Writers Conference and awards from Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, the Gregory O鈥橠onoghue International Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poets, her work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2015, Narrative, North American Review, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.

is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further听Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (BOA Editions, Ltd; spring听2017). His work has previously appeared in two chapbooks and publications such听as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, and The Best American Poetry. Chen is a听PhD candidate in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University.

is the author of the forthcoming chapbook Equilibrium, selected by听Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition sponsored听by Bull City Press. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets听Prize and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the poetry editor for Nashville听Review. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, Best New听Poets 2015, Crab Orchard Review, The Adroit Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Thrush, The Offing, and elsewhere.

Stephen Dobyns is the author of more than thirty-five novels and poetry听collections, includingIs Fat Bob Dead Yet?, published in September 2015; The Burn听Palace; The Church of Dead Girls; Cold Dog Soup; Cemetery Nights; and Winter鈥檚听Journey. He has also published two books of essays on poetry. Among his honors are听a Melville Cane Award; Pushcart Prizes; a 1983 National Poetry Series selection听for Black Dog, Red Dog: Poems; three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships;听and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His new book of poetry, The Day鈥檚 Last Light Reddens听the Leaves of the Copper Beech, will be published by BOA in September 2016.

Peter Grandbois is the author of seven previous books including, most recently,听The Girl on the Swing (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2015). His poems, stories, and essays听have previously appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg听Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, The Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review,听Zone 3, and DIAGRAM, among many others. His plays have been performed in听St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. Grandbois is senior editor at听Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio.

is the author of two poetry collections: In Which I Play the听Runaway (2016), winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted听City, published in the Marie Alexander Series from White Pine Press (2014).听Her work has been included in Best New Poets 2013, and she鈥檚 been awarded听literary prizes from Crab Orchard Review, Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain,听and Poetry International. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared听in journals like Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, and The Southeast Review.听She is a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati and assistant editor for the听Cincinnati Review.

Rodney Jones is the prize-winning author of eleven books of poems. Village听Prodigies, his new book, combines techniques of fiction and poetry, and is forthcoming听in spring 2017 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, which won the听Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books and is forthcoming in March 2017.听Recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace听Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford University, he is currently a PhD听student in English literature at the University of Chicago. His academic writing听is forthcoming in Modernism/ modernity, and his poetry and essays have appeared听in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review Online, and The New听Republic, among other places. Kempf received his MFA from Cornell University.

is the author of Little Black Daydream (University of Akron听Press, 2013) and The Luckless Age (Red Hen Press, 2011), winner of the Benjamin听Saltman Award. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Antioch听Review, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mississippi Review, New England听Review, New Letters, Quarterly West and many others. Kistulentz directs the听graduate program in creative writing at Saint Leo University in Florida, and lives听in the Tampa area with his family.

the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015),听recently included on the American Library Association鈥檚 Over the Rainbow List.听His work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets 2014, Colorado Review,听Indiana Review, Iowa Review, and Pleiades, among others. He is the recipient of听a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry, and the听founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal. He lives in Philadelphia, where听he is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

is an MFA student in poetry at Indiana University and nonfiction editor of Indiana Review. Her work can be found in Mid-American Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Ilanot Review, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature Online, and Ninth Letter Online. A recipient of the 2016 Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award and the 2016 Kraft-Kinsey Award from the Kinsey Institute, she has also received support from The Yiddish Book Center, The National Society of Arts and Letters (Bloomington), Middlebury Summer Language School, and The Borns Jewish Studies Program.

Adrian Matejka a is the author of The Devil鈥檚 Garden (Alice James Books,听2003) and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), which was a winner of the National Poetry听Series. His most recent book, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), was awarded the听Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and听Pulitzer Prize. Matejka is the Ruth Lilly Professor/Poet-in-Residence at Indiana听University in Bloomington.

is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation听(Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014听Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods, forthcoming from New Issues Press in 2017.听His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best听New Poets 2014, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, among others. Minicucci currently听teaches writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

debut collection, Marvels of the Invisible, won the 2014听Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2016. Her poems have听appeared or are forthcoming in The Missouri Review, North American Review,听Copper Nickel, The New Guard, Mississippi Review, The Adroit Journal, Smartish Pace,听Zone 3, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Molberg holds an MFA from American听University and a PhD from the University of North Texas. She currently teaches听at the University of Central Missouri and is co-editor of Pleiades.

Jessica Poli is the author of the chapbooks Alexia (Sixth Finch), Glassland听(JMWW), and The Egg Mistress (Gold Line Press). Her work has appeared in听Caketrain, Sixth Finch, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. A recent graduate of the听Syracuse University MFA program, Poli lives in Syracuse, NY, where she edits听Birdfeast and works on a farm.

Isaac Pressnell鈥檚 work has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing听2015, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, and many听other publications.

is the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012). She has received听fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio听Center. Her poems have been published in Field, Black Warrior Review, Washington听Square, and jubilat.听

poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel,听Crab Orchard Review, Harvard Review, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Prairie听Schooner, Vinyl, Waxwing, the Poets on Growth anthology, and The Golden Shovel听Anthology, among other venues. His criticism has appeared in American Microreviews听and Interviews, Boston Review, Callaloo, and Rain Taxi Review of Books. Rothman has听taught writing and cultural literatures throughout Boston, and is now pursuing a听PhD at The Catholic University of America.

is a 2015 NEA fellow and finalist for The Ruth Lilly Fellowship from听the Poetry Foundation. He鈥檚 a poetry fellow at The Michener Center for Writers听where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He鈥檚 the two time Bay听Area Grand Slam Champion and author of the chapbooks A Guide to Undressing听Your Monsters (Button Poetry, 2014); sad boy / detective (Black Lawrence Press,听2015); and All The Rage (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016). sax鈥檚 poems are forthcoming听in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, PEN Poetry Series, Poetry,听and other journals.

Steven D. Schroeder鈥檚 second book, The Royal Nonesuch (Spark Wheel Press,听2013), won the 2014 Devil鈥檚 Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois听University. His poetry is recently available or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Crab听Orchard Review, and The Laurel Review. Schroeder serves as board member, reading听series co-director, and contributing editor for River Styx magazine in St. Louis.

Michael Waters is the author and editor of numerous books of poetry, including听BOA titles Celestial Joyride (2016); Gospel Night; Darling Vulgarity, a finalist for听the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, finalist听for the Paterson Poetry Prize. The recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and multiple听fellowships, Waters currently teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew听University MFA program. Waters lives with his wife, poet Mihaela Moscaliuc,
in Ocean, New Jersey.

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A writer and filmmaker, holds an MFA in fiction from The New听School, and her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, H.O.W. Journal, Los Angeles听Review of Books, Third Coast, and other journals. Bull has also written and directed听several films, and has received fellowships from UCLA, Rotary International,听and the Fulbright Commission. Originally from Northern California, she currently听lives in Brooklyn and is working on a novel.

fourth book, the story collection The Virginity of Famous听Men, will be out in September 2016 from Bloomsbury. Her previous books are the novels Little听Known Facts and Paris, He Said, along with the story collection Portraits of a Few听of the People I鈥檝e Made Cry. Sneed teaches part-time for the graduate writing听program at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, IL.

Dario Sulzman was raised in upstate New York, and received his MFA听in creative writing from Florida State University. His work has appeared in听Gulfstream, Potomac Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among other journals,听and his essay, 鈥淐onflict鈥� was the winner of the 2015 Iron Horse Literary Review听Trifecta contest in creative nonfiction. Sulzman is currently pursuing a PhD in听creative writing and English at the University of Cincinnati.

is the director of The Martha鈥檚 Vineyard Institute of听Creative Writing and the author of the short story collection Children of the New听World (Picador 2016). His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City听Review, Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International,听World Literature Today, and other journals. He is the recipient of a Sustainable听Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, and New Millennium Prize. His stories appear in the听anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, and the 2014 and 2015 Lascaux听Prize Stories. He is an associate professor of creative writing and a freelance editor,听and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.

work has appeared in Slice, Redivider, Indiana Review, Baltimore听Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Isthmus and elsewhere. She lives in central Ohio听with her husband and two young sons, where she is at work on a memoir.

Carol Smith is a Seattle writer whose work led the anthology The Best Creative听Nonfiction (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007). Her poetry, fiction, and essays听have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Signs of Life, Mississippi Review, Pooled Ink,听The New Guard, Hippocampus Magazine, Oberon Poetry, The Florida Review, and听Travelers鈥� Tales (to Go). She was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Prime Number听Magazine Awards for creative nonfiction, for the 2015 Arts & Letters fiction prize,听and for 础谤肠补诲颈补鈥檚 2015 nonfiction contest. Smith is currently at work on a novel.