{"id":6330,"date":"2013-04-01T00:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2015-03-25T21:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:19:38","slug":"spring-2013-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6330","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2013 Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashley Anderson<\/strong> is a choreographer based in Salt Lake City. The piece included, “don’t be cruel,” was made for Movement Forum in Salt Lake City and has been seen at the Masonic Temple and the Rose Wagner Theater. A version will be re-staged for students at the Pre-College Dance Program at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. For more work visit\u00a0ashleyandersondances.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Venita Blackburn<\/strong>‘s recent stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Faultline, Bellevue Literary Review, Devil\u2019s Lake Review, Bound Off, Nat. Brut., Smokelong Quarterly<\/em>, and others. Her home town is Compton, California, but she now lives and teaches in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Annah Browning<\/strong> lives in Chicago. Her poems have appeared in The Southeast Review<\/em>, The Bellingham Review<\/em>, Harpur Palate<\/em>, and elsewhere. Her chapbook\u00a0The Marriage <\/em>is forthcoming this fall from Horse Less Press.<\/p>\n

Bombadil<\/strong> spent most of 2012 touring and recording the songs that became their latest effort, Metrics of Affection<\/em>. The album is their most melodic and adventurous outing yet, a cornucopia of styles marked by mischievously surrealistic lyrics and their familiar lush harmonies. Their inventive arrangements add funk, country, boogie woogie, rap, early rock and hints classic pop songwriting, circa 1940, to their already eclectic sound.<\/p>\n

Meriwether Clarke<\/strong> is an MFA candidate in poetry at The University of California, Irvine. Her work has previously been published in\u00a0Off the Coast<\/em> and\u00a0Cicada Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Christopher Citro<\/strong> lives in Syracuse, NY, and his poetry appears or is forthcoming in Subtropics<\/em>, Third Coast<\/em>, Salamander<\/em>, Quarter After Eight<\/em>, Cream City Review<\/em>, Southeast Review<\/em>, The<\/em> Minnesota Review<\/em>, Verse Daily<\/em>, and elsewhere. He has new poetry broadsides available from Architrave Press, Broadsided, and Thrush Press. Find him online at christophercitro.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lydia Conklin<\/strong> is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony, Jentel, the Astraea Foundation, Caldera, the Sitka Center and Harvard University, among others. She has drawn graphic fiction for Gulf Coast, Salt Hill<\/em> and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. Her prose fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, New Letters, The New Orleans Review, <\/em>and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.<\/p>\n

Okla Elliott<\/strong> is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois, where he works in the fields of comparative literature and trauma studies. He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Ohio State University. His non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine<\/em>, Indiana Review<\/em>, The Literary Review<\/em>, The Los Angeles Review<\/em>, New Letters<\/em>, A Public Space<\/em>, and The Southeast Review<\/em>, among many others.\u00a0He is the author of a full-length collection of short fiction, From the Crooked Timber<\/em>, and three poetry chapbooks\u2014The Mutable Wheel<\/em>; Lucid Bodies and Other Poems<\/em>; and A Vulgar Geography<\/em>. His po-mo\/sci-fi novel The Doors You Mark Are Your Own<\/em>, co-written with Raul Clement, is forthcoming in 2014.<\/p>\n

Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow<\/em> \u2013 the latest offering from Heartless Bastards <\/strong>\u2013 sees the group pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album \u2013 the Austin, Texas-based band\u2019s first release with Partisan Records \u2013 is marked as ever by singer\/guitarist\/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom\u2019s remarkable voice, at turns primal and pleading, heartfelt and heroic.<\/p>\n

Brooks Long and the Mad Dog No Good: <\/strong>Melding the traditions of vintage R&B and Blues with the aesthetics of classic singer\/songwriters, Baltimore singer\/guitarist\u00a0Brooks\u00a0Long\u00a0brings the old school into the 21st century in a style all his own. With Ian Trusheim on bass and Dan Samuels on drums,\u00a0Brooks\u00a0Long\u00a0& The Mad Dog No Good’s live shows display the passion, energy and humor rare in today’s music scene.\u00a02012 has been a big year with\u00a0Brooks\u00a0being named one of DC\/Baltimore’s \u201cBest Emerging Artists\u201d by The Deli Magazine, releasing the EP, Let\u2019s Make Out To Otis Redding<\/em> in June and playing such festivals as Artscape, Honfest and Baltimore Book Fest. With a full-length album brewing for 2013,\u00a0Brooks\u00a0will be bringing his grit-and-wit style to audiences for years to come.<\/p>\n

Athena Melton<\/strong> has a BFA in photography from Texas State University. She currently resides in San Marcos, TX and bartends. Her mother owns a retarded chihuahua named Muffin.\u00a0www.athenamelton.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Katy Miller<\/strong> lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 She received her B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University in 1994 and her M.S.W. from Washington University in 2001.\u00a0 She is a grief therapist, having worked in cancer support, end-of-life care and bereavement for the past ten years.\u00a0 Her poems are often inspired by her work.\u00a0 Katy is honored to be included in The Nashville Review<\/em>; other poems have appeared in Pleiades<\/em>, Margie<\/em>, Natural Bridge, The American Journal of Nursing<\/em>, and The Examined Life: the Literary Journal of the University of Iowa, Carver Medical College<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brianna Noll<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter<\/em>, CutBank<\/em>, Blackbird<\/em>, Redivider<\/em>, Salamander<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Ann Pelletier<\/strong>‘s manuscript, Strange Invention<\/em>, was a finalist or semi-finalist for the Word Works 2012 Washington Prize, the Bauhan Publishing May Sarton Award, Lynx House Press Blue Lynx Prize, and the University of Wisconsin Brittingham and Pollak Prizes. Her chapbook, Scape,<\/em> was a semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Black River <\/em>Prize. Her work has been published in The Antioch Review, Arts & Letters, Cider Press Review, New American Writing, Volt, <\/em>and other journals.<\/p>\n

Rolli<\/strong> is a writer and illustrator hailing from Canada. He’s the author of God’s Autobio<\/em> (short stories), Plum Stuff<\/em> (poems\/drawings), and five forthcoming titles for adults and children. Visit his blog (www.rolliwrites.wordpress.com<\/a>), and follow his epic tweets @rolliwrites.<\/p>\n

Channing Showalter<\/strong> grew up in Seattle, Washington. She played classical cello when she was little, but music never felt right until she discovered fiddle and old-time. Stylistically influenced by old ballads and heartfelt tunes, she writes songs inspired by dead foxes, bird bones, and abandoned places. She has traveled widely through this country’s open land and smallest towns. Channing lives in Port Townsend, Washington.<\/p>\n

Dara-Lyn Shrager<\/strong> lives in Princeton, New Jersey. She holds a BA from Smith College, where she was the 1989 recipient of The Rosemary Thomas Prize for Poetry, and an MFA from Bennington College. Her chapbook, The Boy From Egypt<\/em>, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. Her poems have appeared or are soon appearing in journals including The Ontario Review<\/em>, The Comstock Review<\/em>, The Greensboro Review<\/em>, Pebble Lake Review<\/em>, Animus<\/em>, The Chaffin Journal<\/em> and Harpur Palate<\/em>. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times<\/em>, The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> and Philadelphia Magazine<\/em>. Her poetry collection, Archaeopteryx<\/em> is forthcoming from Tupelo Press where she edits the new electronic literary journal Tupelo Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sarah Mollie Silberman<\/strong> earned an MFA from George Mason University.\u00a0 She lives in Virginia and has mixed feelings about Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Tony Walner<\/strong> is from Chicago. He’s currently a sophomore at Emory University. His work has appeared in decomP magazinE<\/em>, Monkeybicycle, Prick of the Spindle<\/em>, and the Eunoia Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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P. J. Williams<\/strong> was born and raised in North Carolina, where he taught high school English for three years before moving to Tuscaloosa and enrolling in the MFA program at The University of Alabama. His poems appear or are forthcoming in\u00a0PANK, burntdistrict, Mixed Fruit, Salamander, Crab Creek Review, Four Way Review <\/em>and others. He is lead editor and co-founder of\u00a0Utter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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