{"id":693,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=693"},"modified":"2015-03-21T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:39:07","slug":"spring-2010-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2010 Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breathe Owl Breathe<\/a> is Micah Middaugh, Andr\u00e9a Moreno-Beals, and Trevor Hobbs.\u00a0 They live\u00a0in a log cabin together in East Jordan, Michigan.<\/p>\n

Dark Dark Dark<\/a> is a six-piece chamber folk band whose members hail\u00a0from Minneapolis, New Orleans, and New York. Their latest release is\u00a0Bright Bright Bright<\/em>, which was recorded in a converted church in\u00a0Duluth, MN. The band will spend most of 2010 touring the United States\u00a0and Europe.<\/p>\n

Heather Derr-Smith<\/a> is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.\u00a0 She has two books of poetry, Each End of the World<\/em> (Main Street Rag Press, 2005) and The Bride Minaret<\/em> (University of Akron Press, 2008).\u00a0 Her poems have also appeared in Fence<\/em>, CrazyHorse<\/em>, Brink<\/em>, and\u00a0Diode<\/span>.\u00a0 Derr-Smith has been dividing her time between Los Angeles and Iowa.<\/p>\n

Efterklang<\/strong> <\/a>is a Danish band based out of Copenhagen.\u00a0 Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, and\u00a0Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the Danish island of Als\u00a0and later moved to Copenhagen where they\u00a0formed the band with Thomas Husmer.\u00a0 Rune M\u00f8lgaard occasionally joins them on piano and helps co-write songs.\u00a0 Efterklang also runs the record label Rumraket.<\/p>\n

The Farewell Drifters<\/a> are a quintet (two acoustic guitars, mandolin, fiddle, upright bass) based in Nashville. \u00a0Their new album, Yellow Tag Mondays<\/em>, is scheduled to be released this June by\u00a0Heart Squeeze Records\/Thirty Tigers. www.thefarewelldrifters.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Epp<\/a> is an arranger and performer on trumpet and keyboards in Nashville.\u00a0 His pieces have been performed and recorded by the Nashville Jazz Orchestra and the University of Cincinnati\u2019s College-Conservatory of Music Philharmonia Orchestra.\u00a0www.pauleppmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Garcia<\/a> describes his artwork as \u201chistorically based, politically charged criticism, with the goal of creating dialogue about contemporary issues.” \u00a0Recently having finished his Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Garcia is a versatile artist working in a wide variety of media.<\/p>\n

Jeff Harms<\/a> is a Chicago musician. He has two albums\u2014The Myth of Heroics<\/em> (2008 DRP records, with Emmett Kelly and Azita) and Big Amazing Songs<\/em> (2005 Naivete Records, with Dominic Johnson and Spencer Matern)\u2014and his third, produced by Leroy Bach, will be released this winter.<\/p>\n

Yaul Perez-Stable Husni<\/a> is an aspiring poet and brave young man. He is sixteen years old and is enrolled in the creative writing program at San Francisco School of the Arts. He has been published previous in\u00a0Motif: Writing by Ear<\/em>,\u00a0A Celebration of Poets<\/em>, online through the California Coastal Art and Poetry Contest, and in the school literary journal,\u00a0uml\u00e4ut<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Tyler James<\/a>\u2019 debut full-length record\u00a0It Took the Fire<\/em> was released\u00a0March 2 on\u00a0Son of Geert Records<\/em>. He’s also produced two EPs\u2014An EP<\/em> and Sweet Relief EP<\/em>\u2014and was one of the founding members of Ten Out of Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0James was born in the Pacific Northwest, raised in small-town Iowa, and lives in Nashville.<\/p>\n

Peter Jurmu<\/a> lives in Boston and attends Emerson College. \u00a0Between fits of writing for his MFA, he plays records, and has trouble staying in shape because he won’t run on overcast days.<\/p>\n

Rickey Laurentiis<\/a><\/strong> studies at Sarah Lawrence College, north of New York City. \u00a0His work may be found published or forthcoming in several journals, including\u00a0Knockout Literary Magazine, The Other Journal, Ganymede<\/em> and\u00a0The Indiana Review.<\/em> Most recently, two of his poems were named first and third runner-up in the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, selected by Carl Phillips, and he has received a Cave Canem Fellowship. \u00a0He is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Sarah Maclay<\/a> is the author of The White Bride <\/em>(U of Tampa Press), Whore, <\/em>which received the <\/em>Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in APR, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Writer\u2019s Chronicle, VerseDaily,<\/em> The Best<\/em> American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present, <\/em>and many other journals. A recipient of a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXI<\/em>, she teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University, and serves as book review editor for Poetry International<\/em> and as artistic director of THE T H I R D A R E A, a poetry reading series now in its new home at Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, in Santa Monica. \u00a0About her poems from her HD Sequence<\/em> in this issue, Maclay writes, “Like the poems selected here for Spring 2010, many of the shards in this work-in-progress take their titles from phrases at the center of HD\u2019s Trilogy\u2014<\/em>her long, sectioned Tribute to the Angels<\/em>. In that sense, and in response to both images that arise in HD\u2019s work and in paintings, photos and films from across the centuries that use similar titles, images or themes, this work is a concordance, with a bit of ekphrastic highlighting.”<\/p>\n

Pamela Main<\/a> coordinates the writing center at Penn State Brandywine, where she also teaches creative writing and composition.\u00a0 Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Stories<\/em>, Clapboard House<\/em>, Greensboro Review<\/em>, Puerto del Sol<\/em>, Southern California Anthology<\/em>, and Louisiana Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 She is working on a novel set on an imaginary island off of New Jersey. She lives in Wilmington, DE.<\/p>\n

John Minichillo<\/a> teaches fiction writing at Middle Tennessee State University and lives in Nashville.<\/p>\n

Keiler Roberts<\/a><\/strong> was born in 1978 in Wisconsin.\u00a0 After studying art at the University of Wisconsin and Northwestern University, she made paintings and drawings for ten years, and then happily switched to comics.\u00a0 She now lives in Evanston, Illinois and teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. www.keilerroberts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Sasson<\/a> received his MFA from NYU, where he studied with Edwidge Danticat, Deborah Eisenberg, Ted Solatorof and E.L. Doctorow. In the past few years he\u2019s received scholarships to the Sewanee, Key West, Squaw Valley and Southampton writers\u2019 conferences, as well as being a finalist in the competition for and attending the Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in\u00a0The Crucible,<\/em> Alligator Juniper, Limp Wrist,<\/em> The Minetta Review, The Advocate, <\/em>The Ledge <\/em>and\u00a0The 2nd<\/sup> Hand<\/em>, among others. He\u2019s editing his first novel, entitled Valhalla<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sufjan Stevens<\/a> is a pioneer in the indie-folk renaissance, noted for his evocative songwriting, use of diverse instruments from across cultures, and the string and horn arrangements that lend his music their symphonic quality. \u00a0 Stevens has an MFA in fiction from The New School.<\/p>\n

Nora Jane Struthers<\/a> grew up in New Jersey playing and singing bluegrass music with her father, Alan.\u00a0 Now based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Struthers is performing her originals with her own band, an acoustic quartet comprised of fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass.\u00a0 Her debut album is set for a June 22 release. www.norajanestruthers.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Symbion Project<\/a> is the electronic music endeavor of Kasson Crooker, formerly of the blippy synthop band Freezepop and electronic rock band Splashdown.\u00a0 Symbion Project has had songs in a number of music videogames including tracks via RockBand Network for play in Rock Band 2 for the Xbox360.\u00a0www.symbionproject.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

JooHee Yoon<\/a> was born in a foreign metropolis but spent most of her childhood in a pleasantly rainy region of the West Coast. \u00a0As a kid she swallowed some very strange things, including perfume, oil pastels and other unmentionables. \u00a0She is currently a junior in the illustration department at the Rhode Island School of Design and enjoys cooking obscure vegetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breathe Owl Breathe is Micah Middaugh, Andr\u00e9a Moreno-Beals, and Trevor Hobbs.\u00a0 They live\u00a0in a log cabin together in East Jordan, Michigan. Dark Dark Dark is a six-piece chamber folk band whose members hail\u00a0from Minneapolis, New Orleans, and New York. Their latest release is\u00a0Bright Bright Bright, which was recorded in a converted church in\u00a0Duluth, MN. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11143,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/11143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}