Spring 2012
- Guest Poetry Editor: Kevin Stein
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Guest Fiction Editor: Donna Seaman
Kevin Stein has published ten books of poetry and criticism
including the essay book Poetry’s Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (University
of Michigan Press, 2010). Among his recent poetry collections are Sufficiency
of the Actual (University of Illinois Press, 2009) and American Ghost
Roses (University of Illinois, 2005) — winner of the Society of Midland
Authors Poetry Award. Stein edited two anthologies of Illinois poetry: the
audio CD Bread & Steel and Illinois Voices,
the latter with the late G. E. Murray. His poems have also earned the Frederick
Bock Prize from Poetry, the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Devins
Award, an NEA fellowship, and other distinctions. Since 2003 he’s served
as Illinois Poet Laureate.
Donna Seaman is a senior editor for Booklist, a
book critic for Chicago Public Radio, and a reviewer for the Los Angeles
Times, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Bookforum and other
venues. A recipient of Writer Magazine’s Writers Who Make a Difference
Award, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, the Studs Terkel
Humanities Service Award, and other honors, Seaman was a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A contributor
to Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry
Lopez and Debra Gwartney, Seaman created the fiction anthology In Our Nature:
Stories of Wildness, and her author interviews are collected in Writers
on the Air: Conversations about Books, and at www.openbooksradio.org.
Don’t miss our fantastic issue 10! Poetry by Kim Addonizio,
Camille T. Dungy, Tony Hoagland, Donald Revell, Marc Kelly Smith, Dean
Young, and others. Fiction by James Carpenter, Joe Meno,
Achy Obejas, Bayo Ojikutu, Christine Sneed, and others. Essays by
Peter Orner, Mary Quade, and others. Interviews with writer
Ana Castillo and photographer Petra Ford.
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Coming in Fall 2012
- Guest Poetry Editor: Simone Muench
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Guest Fiction Editor: Eileen
Favorite
Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now
resides in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of four poetry collections: The
Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn
A. Morton Prize; Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010)
and Disappearing Address, co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX,
2010). A former editor of ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), she is now
an editor for Sharkforum, a faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review,
and an advisory board member for Switchback Books. Her honors include two Illinois
Arts Council Fellowships, two Vermont Studio Center Fellowships, a Lewis Faculty
Scholar Award, UIC’s Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, the PSA’s
Bright Lights/Big Verse Award, and others. She received her Ph.D from the University
of Illinois at Chicago, and currently directs the Writing Program at Lewis
University where she is an associate professor and teaches creative writing
and film studies. She is a vegetarian and a life-long horror film fan.
Learn more about her at
www.simonemuench.com.
Eileen Favorite's first novel The Heroines (Scribner,
2008) was named a Best Debut Novel by The Rocky Mountain News, and
has been translated into Finnish, Italian, Russian, and Korean. The audio version
was nominated for best recording by the American Library Association. A
writer of both poetry and prose, she's twice received Illinois Arts Council
Artist Fellowships (prose, 2001; poetry 2005). Her work has appeared
in many publications, including Triquarterly, Folio, Chicago Reader, Poetry
East, and Diagram. She's been nominated for Pushcart Prize
for fiction and nonfiction. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, where she received her MFA in Writing and at the Graham School
of Continuing Studies at the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago
with her husband and two daughters. Learn more about her at www.eileenfavorite.com.
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