Isaac Anderson’s work has appeared in Image, Portland Magazine, TheAtlantic.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, The Christian Century, and elsewhere, and has received honorable mention in Best American Essays. He was the 2016–17 Image Milton Fellow.
Asnia Asim earned her MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in several print and online journals. She is currently working on her first novel.
Claire Bateman is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Scape (New Issues), Coronology and Other Poems (Etruscan), and Locals (Serving House). She lives and works in Greenville, South Carolina.
Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently All Soul Parts Returned and Theophobia (both from BOA).
Cindy Beebe has poems in the Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Rattle, Forklift Ohio, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. She lives in Collierville, Tennessee.
Tara Bray is the author of Small Mothers of Fright (LSU) and Mistaken for Song (Persea). Her poems have recently appeared in Poetry, Crazyhorse, Agni, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Hudson Review, and Cincinnati Review. She teaches research writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Peter Cooley’s ten poetry collections include, most recently, World without Finishing (Carnegie Mellon). His poems have recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, The Christian Century, Commonweal, and Colorado Quarterly. He teaches at Tulane and is poet laureate of Louisiana.
Marie Curran’s writing can be found in Mud Season Review, Collagist, and Mutha. At night, she reads and writes. She lives in a small red house with her family in Durham, North Carolina.
Richard Davey is coordinating chaplain of Nottingham Trent University, a visiting fellow in its school of art and design, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (UK). He has written catalogue essays for the Royal Academy of Arts on Anselm Kiefer and the Summer Exhibition, as well as monographs on Anthony Whishaw and Tess Jaray, and is currently writing a book on Ed Moses.
Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden (Ohio) and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse). He coedits the online journal Unsplendid and has served as associate editor for AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle.
Stephen Haven is author of three poetry collections, most recently The Last Sacred Place in North America (New American). He directs the Lesley University MFA program in creative writing.
Paul Mariani is University Professor of English emeritus at Boston College. His eighteen books include biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Wallace Stevens, and the poetry collections Epitaphs for the Journey (Wipf and Stock) and Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius (Penguin).
Gregory Martin is the author of two nonfiction books, Stories for Boys (Hawthorne), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and Mountain City (North Point), a New York Times Notable Book. He teaches writing at the University of New Mexico.
Les Murray’s awards include the T.S. Eliot Award and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. His many collections include Subhuman Redneck Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), The Biplane Houses (Macmillan; Carcanet), and Taller When Prone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He has also written two verse novels, The Boys Who Stole the Funeral and Fredy Neptune (both from Carcanet).
Allison Pinkerton was the 2017 Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review and is online at Sonora Review and Passages North.
Theodore L. Prescott has written for Image since the third issue, in 1993. He is a sculptor, and his most recent public work was installed in the Penn State College of Medicine at Hershey Medical Center in June of 2017. www.tedprescottsculpture.com.
Daniel Priest’s poems have appeared in the Southern Review, Concho River Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Star*Line, and online at The Rumpus. He lives in Austin where he works as an arborist and serves as an associate editor for Borderlands.
Bobby C. Rogers’s first book, Paper Anniversary (Pitt), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. In 2015 he was named a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress by Poet Laureate Charles Wright. A new book, Social History, was released by LSU Press as part of their Southern Messenger Poets series.
Lisa Russ Spaar has authored or edited of over ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Orexia (Persea). Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Jane St. Clair is active in the hospice movement. Her first novel, Walk Me to Midnight (OakTara), takes on the issue of physician-assisted suicide. She has published twenty-five short stories in literary magazines and anthologies, as well as twenty-one children’s books.
Acknowledgments
The Scott Cairns poem on page four first appeared in America magazine.
