NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

GABRIEL BLACKWELL’s most recent book is Madeleine E. (Outpost19). His fictions and essays have appeared in previous issues of Conjunctions as well as in Tin House, DIAGRAM, Post Road, and elsewhere. He is the editor of The Collagist.

RYAN CALL is the author of The Weather Stations (Caketrain) and the recipient of a Whiting Award. He lives in Houston.

The actor, writer, and translator LOUIS CANCELMI is the founder and curator of SIGNALS///noise. His plays have been developed with and produced by Naked Angels, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the Orchard Project.

In 2016, longtime Conjunctions contributor CAN XUE was shortlisted for the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature; in 2015, her novel The Last Lover (Yale University Press) received the Best Translated Book Award.

CHEN ZEPING has published widely in the field of Chinese linguistics. In addition, he has translated several contemporary Chinese writers into English in collaboration with Karen Gernant, including Can Xue, Zhang Kangkang, Alai, Yan Lianke, and Shi Tiesheng.

ROBERT CLARK is the author of four novels and four books of creative nonfiction, most recently Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (Doubleday). He has recently completed a book on Victorian artists and writers, doubt, eros, and obsession.

ROBERT COOVER has published more than twenty books of fiction and plays, his most recent being A Child Again (McSweeney’s), Noir (Overlook), The Brunist Day of Wrath (Dzanc), and Huck Out West (Norton).

SUSAN DAITCH is the author of six books, most recently The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (City Lights) and White Lead (Random House).

MONICA DATTA is a writer and architectural designer whose fiction has appeared previously in Conjunctions:61, A Menagerie and Conjunctions’ weekly online edition.

KATHRYN DAVIS is the author of seven novels, most recently The Thin Place (Little, Brown) and Duplex (Graywolf). Among other honors, she has received the Lannan Award for Fiction and the 2016 Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

ELAINE EQUI’s latest book is Sentences and Rain (Coffee House). She teaches at New York University and in the MFA program at the New School.

KAREN GERNANT, professor emerita at Southern Oregon University, has collaborated with Chen Zeping in translating more than ten books of contemporary Chinese fiction, the most recent of which is Can Xue’s novel Frontier (Open Letter).

KAREN HAYS lives and writes on the Monterey Peninsula. Her essays have appeared previously in Conjunctions and in such periodicals as The Georgia Review and The Iowa Review.

Aqueduct Press recently published KAREN HEULER’s fiction collection Other Places, and in July 2017 will release her novella In Search of Lost Time.

Pushcart Prize–winner BRANDON HOBSON’s work has appeared in Conjunctions, NOON, The Believer, and elsewhere. His next novel, The Long Life, will be out next year from Soho Press.

Ploughshares Solos recently published LISA HORIUCHI’s digital novelette, Bones. Her contribution to this issue marks her first appearance in print.

MARK IRWIN is the author of nine collections of poetry, including American Urn: Selected Poems 1987–2014 (AUP), A Passion According to Green, Tall If (both New Issues), Bright Hunger, and White City (both BOA). His collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry, is forthcoming from Peter Lang.

Cover artist EUGENE IVANOV, a Russian Czech painter and book illustrator, has illustrated over a hundred books and held numerous solo exhibitions.

Contributing editor ROBERT KELLY’s most recent publications include Opening the Seals (Autonomedia), The Hexagon (Black Widow/Commonwealth), Heart Thread (Lunar Chandelier Collective), and The Secret Name of Now (Dr. Cicero).

ANN LAUTERBACH’s most recent books are Under the Sign (Penguin) and St. Petersburg Notebook (Omnidawn). A Conjunctions contributing editor, she teaches at Bard College.

LAWRENCE LENHART is the author of the essay collection The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage (Outpost19) and an editor at DIAGRAM.

NATHANIEL MACKEY’s most recent books are Blue Fasa, Late Arcade (both New Directions), and Lay Ghost (Black Ocean). He edits the literary journal Hambone.

JOHN MADERA’s work has appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, American Book Review, The Believer, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

ANDREW MOSSIN is the author of a book of critical essays, Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan), and several books of poetry, most recently Exile’s Recital (Spuyten Duyvil). He is currently at work on a new book of poetry and a novel, from which “The Kite Room” is excerpted.

JUSTIN NOGA lives in Seattle, Washington. His contribution to this issue marks his first publication.

Longtime Conjunctions contributor JOYCE CAROL OATES’s most recent books include the novel A Book of American Martyrs and the essay collection Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (both Ecco). She was recently inducted into the American Philosophical Society.

LANCE OLSEN’s most recent book is the novel Dreamlives of Debris (Dzanc). He teaches experimental theory and practice at the University of Utah.

With Aftab Ahmad, MATT REECK has translated Mirages of the Mind from the Urdu of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi (Vintage India, New Directions) and Bombay Stories from the Urdu of Saadat Hasan Manto (Random House India, Vintage International). This fall Wesleyan University Press will publish his translation of Class Warrior—Taoist Style from the French of Abdelkébir Khatibi.

ELIZABETH ROBINSON wrote the poems included in this issue while a fellow at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France. She is the coeditor, with Jennifer Phelps, of the forthcoming anthology Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Women’s Poetry (University of Akron Press).

JOANNA SCOTT is the author of twelve books, including Follow Me (Little, Brown) and De Potter’s Grand Tour (FSG). Her new novel, Careers for Women, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in July.

French novelist, poet, and critic CLAUDE SIMON (1913–2005) received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. His many works available in English translation include The Grass (1960), The Flanders Road (1961), The Palace (1963), Histoire (1968), Conducting Bodies (1974), Triptych (1976), Georgics (1989), The Invitation (1991), and The Acacia (1991). Louis Cancelmi’s translations of his poems “Archipelago” and “North” in this issue are copyright © 1974, 2009 Les Éditions de Minuit.

Work by MARY SOUTH has appeared in The Collagist, Electric Literature, The New Yorker’s “Book Bench,” NOON, Vice, and Words without Borders.

COLE SWENSEN is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently On Walking On (Nightboat), and a collection of critical essays. The last two poems in this issue are based on Agnès Varda films of the same titles. Also a translator from French, Swensen teaches at Brown University.

FREDERIC TUTEN’s most recent book is Self Portraits: Fictions (Norton). His contributions to Conjunctions:54 and Conjunctions:60 received Pushcart Prizes.

G. C. WALDREP’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (BOA), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn). His new collection, feast gently, is due from Tupelo in 2018. He edits the journal West Branch, and serves as editor at large for The Kenyon Review.