{"id":16357,"date":"2020-08-01T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=16357"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:09:13","slug":"summer-2020-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16357","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER 2020 CONTRIBUTORS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alfredo Aguilar<\/strong> is the author of On This Side of\u00a0the Desert<\/em> selected by Natalie Diaz for the 2019 Stan and Tom Wick PoetryPrize. He is a recipient of 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest and has received\u00a0fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the\u00a0Frost Place. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Shallow Ends,\u00a0The Adroit Journal,<\/em> and elsewhere. Originally from North County San Diego,\u00a0he now resides in Texas.<\/p>\n

Maghan Baptiste<\/strong> is a Haitian-American reader, writer and Cancer stellium. Her work explores intergenerational trauma, ancestral vows and the lines of her intersecting identities. She recently participated in Catapult\u2019s first year-long Poetry Generator workshop led by Angel Nafis and is working on a poetry manuscript which attempts to connect the subconscious to the paper while exploring the realities of grief, mental illness, and arriving at the self. Maghan was the 2019 Well-Read Black Girl festival coordinator and currently works for a literary non-profit in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n

Anney Bolgiano<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer and educator living in Washington, DC. She received her MFA from George Mason University, and her BA from Guilford College. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in\u00a0Whiskey Island<\/em>,\u00a0Francis House,\u00a0Door is a Jar<\/em>,\u00a0Bending Genres<\/em>,\u00a0Funny Looking Dog Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0A Velvet Giant<\/em>,\u00a0District Lines Anthology<\/em>, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a past resident of Art Farm Nebraska.<\/p>\n

TR Brady<\/strong>‘s work has recently appeared in\u00a0Colorado Review, Copper\u00a0Nickel, Denver Quarterly, The Adroit Journal,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Tin House<\/em>. TR is a\u00a0graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and co-edits the journal\u00a0Afternoon\u00a0Visitor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Burkhalter<\/strong> is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee. Their work has appeared in No, Dear Magazine, The Paris Atlantic, Pond Magazine, <\/em>and elsewhere. They earned their MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and currently live in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n

Nora Carr<\/strong>\u00a0is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, where my research focuses on translation, translation theory, and border literature. I also teach literature and college writing at Queens College, CUNY.<\/p>\n

Yongyu Chen<\/strong> is a first-year PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. His poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, jubilat,<\/em> and West Branch,<\/em> and has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best New Poets. His academic writing has been published in journals like positions: asia critique.<\/em> He was born in Beijing, China and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Alida Dean<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati and a graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA program. Her story “The Off Season” was the 2020 winner of Ninth Letter\u2019s fiction contest. She lives in Cincinnati with her dog.<\/p>\n

Jaydn Dewald<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0Sheets of Sound<\/em> (forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books) and several chapbooks, most recently\u00a0A Love Supreme: fragments & ephemera<\/em>, winner of the 2019\u00a0Quarterly West<\/em>\u00a0Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in\u00a0At Length, Best New Poets, Brilliant Corners, Sou\u2019wester<\/em>, West Branch, <\/em>and many other publications. He is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Piedmont College.<\/p>\n

Jes\u00fas Gardea<\/strong> was born in 1939 in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and is one of the most highly regarded writers of northern Mexico, best known for his short fiction. He died in 2000. This story was originally published in his 1980 collection\u00a0Septiembre y los otros d\u00edas<\/i>, for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia.<\/p>\n

Marlon\u00a0Hacla<\/strong>‘s\u00a0first book,\u00a0May Mga Dumadaang Anghel sa Parang<\/i>\u00a0(Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2010), was published as part of UBOD New Authors Series II. His second book,\u00a0Glossolalia<\/i>, was published by High Chair in 2013. He also released two chapbooks,\u00a0Labing-anim na Liham ng Kataksilan<\/i>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Melismas<\/i>\u00a0(2016). He lives in Quezon City, Philippines, with his cats.<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Grace Hogan<\/strong> is a poet from St. Louis, Missouri. She resides in\u00a0Austin, Texas while pursuing her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin\u00a0as part of the New Writers Project. Her work has been published by the\u00a0Academy of American Poets, Sonora Review, Kissing Dynamite, Arcturus,\u00a0<\/em>and others. Her micro-chap Sentimental Violence: Some Poems About Tonya\u00a0Harding<\/em> is available in a free PDF from Ghost City Press. She is the\u00a0Poetry Editor of Bat City Review<\/em> and Co-Editor of You Flower \/ You Feast<\/em>,\u00a0an anthology of works inspired by Harry Styles. Her social media and\u00a0projects can be found on her website\u00a0gabriellegracehogan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Megan Howell<\/strong> is a DC-based freelance writer. After graduating from Vassar College, she earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland in College Park, winning both the Jack Salamanca Thesis Award and the Kwiatek Fellowship. Her work has appeared in McSweeney\u2019s, The Nashville Review and The Establishment among other publications.<\/p>\n

Lesley Jenike<\/strong>‘s\u00a0poems and essays have appeared in POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review,\u00a0West Branch, The Bennington Review, <\/em>and many other journals. Her most recent book is Holy Island, <\/em>a collection of poems published by Gold Wake in 2016. She is Professor of Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at the Columbus College of Art and Design as well as a regular contributor to Ploughshares’ <\/em>blog. You can find her at\u00a0www.lesleyjenike.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Marlin M. Jenkins<\/strong>\u00a0was born and raised in Detroit and currently lives in Minnesota. The author of the poetry chapbook\u00a0Capable Monsters\u00a0(Bull City Press, 2020) and a graduate of University of Michigan’s MFA program, his work has found homes with\u00a0Indiana Review,\u00a0The Rumpus,\u00a0Waxwing, <\/em>and\u00a0Kenyon Review Online,<\/em> among others. You can find him online at\u00a0marlinmjenkins.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Betty Junghyun Kim<\/strong> is an emerging writer and graphic artist based in Vermont. A recent graduate of Dartmouth College, she is currently working at the College as the 2020-2021 Digital Library Fellow. Her nonfiction will be published in the Black Warrior Review<\/em> this fall.<\/p>\n

Lisa Low<\/strong> was born and raised in Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Entropy, Cream City Review, The Journal, Vinyl, The Collagist,<\/em> and elsewhere, and her nonfiction is forthcoming in Gulf Coast<\/em>. A graduate of Indiana University\u2019s MFA program, she is a PhD candidate and Yates Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. For more, visit\u00a0lisa-low.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kristine Ong Muslim<\/strong> is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including\u00a0The Drone Outside<\/i>\u00a0(Eibonvale Press, 2017),\u00a0Black Arcadia<\/i>\u00a0(University of the Philippines Press, 2017),\u00a0Meditations of a Beast<\/i>\u00a0(Cornerstone Press, 2016),\u00a0Butterfly Dream<\/i>\u00a0(Snuggly Books, 2016),\u00a0Age of Blight<\/i>\u00a0(Unnamed Press, 2016), and\u00a0Lifeboat<\/i>\u00a0(University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), as well as translator of Marlon Hacla\u2019s\u00a0Melismas<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming from Oomph Press) and\u00a0Mes\u00e1ndel Virtusio Arguelles\u2019s\u00a0Three Books<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books),\u00a0Hollow<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming from Fernwood Press), and\u00a0Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming from De La Salle University Publishing House).\u00a0Widely anthologized, Muslim\u2019s short stories have appeared in\u00a0Conjunctions<\/i>,\u00a0Dazed Digital<\/i>,\u00a0Tin House<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0World Literature Today<\/i>. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.<\/p>\n

Paul Riker<\/strong> is an MFA candidate at Purdue University. A finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Fiction, his work has been featured in Crack the Spine, Drunk Monkeys, Five on the Fifth, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, IN. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0@Pauljriker.<\/p>\n

Michelle Ross<\/strong> is the author of There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You<\/em> (2017), which won the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Epiphany, The Southeast Review, and other venues. Her work has been selected for Best Microfictions 2020 and the Wigleaf Top 50 2019, and won prizes from Gulf Coast and other journals. She is fiction editor of Atticus Review.\u00a0www.michellenross.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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