Fall/Winter 2009-2010

TABARÉ ALVAREZ has an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His fiction has appeared in Reflection’s Edge and is forthcoming in Bewildering Stories. He lives in the Dominican Republic.

BIPIN AURORA has worked as an economist, an energy analyst, and a systems analyst. His fiction has appeared in Quarterly West and North Atlantic Review.

H.V. CHAO is delighted to be making his print début in Epiphany. He is currently at work on Guises, a collection of short stories. He has never been to Moscow, but speaks often, and longingly, of going there one day.

GEORGES-OLIVIER CHÂTEAUREYNAUD’s novel La Faculté des songes (Grasset, 1982) won the prestigious Prix Renaudot, while his most recent collection of stories, Singe Savant tabassé par deux clowns (Grasset, 2005), was awarded the Bourse Goncourt de la Nouvelle.

CASPER CLOETE has no boxing background apart from watching the occasional fight on television and taking out his frustrations on the heavy bag in his garage. He enjoys writing about the challenges that ordinary people face and is trying to sharpen up his prose in between juggling two programming jobs. He lives in Johannesburg and is previously unpublished.

GREGORY CROSBY lives and (in theory) works in New York. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Court Green, Rattle, Copper Nickel, Paradigm, Jacket, and Poem; most recently, his work was included in the 2008 anthology Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State (University of Nevada Press).

LAVINIA CURRIER is a filmmaker whose adaptation of Balzac’s Passion in the Desert won several picture and directing awards at film festivals in Rome, San Sebastien, Telluride, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a new feature film from an original screenplay, Oka! Amerikee.

MARGARITA DELCHEVA graduated from N.Y.U. with an M.F.A. in Poetry. She is from Sofia, Bulgaria, but she currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared in CutThroat, Oak Bend, Chronogram and the Meadow. She dances Argentine tango, practices Zen Buddhism and enjoys oil-painting in her free time.

Catalan poet ERNEST FARRÉS, born in Igualada in 1967, lives in Barcelona. A journalist who works on the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia, he has written three volumes of poems: Clavar-ne una al mall i l’altra a l’enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998), and Edward Hopper (2006), which has been published in English by Graywolf Press.

MICHAEL FERCH recently opened his own law office in New York City, and is an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his son, his wife, and her cat. He may be reached at: michael@ferchlaw.com.

NAOKO FUJIMOTO was born in Nagoya, Japan. Her recent poems are forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Passages North, and Gargoyle Magazine, among others. She is currently practicing to say “I do,” and she purchased a sparkling-February wedding dress last Thursday.

EDWARD GAUVIN is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has been an ALTA fellow and a resident at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, and this fall is participating in the Writers Residency Program at Ledig House. His collection of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s short stories is forthcoming from Small Beer Press, and other translations have appeared in AGNI, Conjunctions, Words Without Borders, The Cafe Irreal, Two Lines, Silk Road, Absinthe, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The Brooklyn Rail.

JEFFREY GUSTAVSON is the author of Nervous Forces (Alef, 1994). More recent work has appeared in Bomb, Fence, and Just Outside the Frame: Poets from the Santa Fe Broadside (Tres Chicas, 2005). He is an alumnus of the Montana Artists Refuge.

APRIL NAOKO HECK’s poems have appeared most recently in Artful Dodge, Shenandoah, Cream City Review, and Borderlands: Texas Quarterly Review. She works as the reading series coordinator at the N.Y.U. Creative Writing Program.

KATHLEEN HEIL is originally from New Orleans. Her work recently appeared in the English and Spanish editions of The Barcelona Review and is forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Thirty First Bird Review. Kathleen also contributes to The Best American Poetry blog. Her website is kathleenheil.wordpress.com.

ASKOLD MELNYCZUK is the author of Blind Angel, Ambassador of the Dead, What Is Told, and The House of Widows. He teaches at UMass Boston and in the Graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College.

SCOTT F. PARKER lives in Minneapolis. He received his master’s in Writing from Portland State University. “Rule-Breaking” is a chapter from a memoir-in-progress, to be called The Joy of Running qua Running. Other chapters have been published in The Ink-Filled Page and on writersdojo.org and nwrunner.com. He has contributed essays to several books on pop culture and philosophy.

DAVID RAYMOND, a painter and sculptor, exhibits in the U.S. and the U.K. and Europe. He is Professor of Fine Arts at Merrimack College in Massachusetts and is a contributing editor for Art New England Magazine. He lives in New Hampshire.

ARIELLA RUTH was an assistant editor for Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community, released Winter 2008 by Saturnalia Books. She has interned at Small Press Traffic, a literary arts center in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in the online journal Other Rooms Press. She received her B.A. from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts in 2008 and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Writing and Poetics department at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she is the graduate assistant for Bombay Gin, the school’s literary journal.

ANNIE SANDLER was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She attributes her love of writing to her family, the city, and her friends (those living on and off the page). She currently lives in Brooklyn. She especially thanks her mother.

JAINA SANGA received her Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of a critical book on Salman Rushdie’s fiction and editor of two volumes on South Asian literature. She lives with her husband in Dallas.

MRIGAA SETHI was born in New Delhi and raised in Bangkok. Her work has previously appeared in Folio, Seneca Review, and The Bangkok Post. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she teaches composition to undergraduates.

FIONA SZE-LORRAIN writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. Her new work is forthcoming in Alimentum, Cimarron Review, Louisville Review, and Poetry International. Her collection of poetry, Water the Moon, is forthcoming (Fall 2009) from Marick Press. An editor at Cerise Press (www.cerisepress.com), she also plays a Chinese zither. She lives in Paris and New York www.fionasze.com).

LARA TUPPER is a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches fiction writing at Rutgers University and lives in New York City. Harcourt published her début novel, A Thousand and One Nights, in 2007.

LAWRENCE VENUTI translates from Italian, French, and Catalan. Recent work includes Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters (2002), the anthology Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2003), and Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel The Goodbye Kiss (2006). His version of Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper won the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize.

CATE WHETZEL is a graduate of Indiana University and Kenyon College. She lives on the north side of Chicago with her husband, poet Ben Debus, and teaches poetry in the public schools through the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Hands on Stanzas program. Her book reviews have appeared in Indiana Review and The Other Journal (online); her poetry has appeared in Breakwater Review, and is forthcoming from The National Poetry Review and storySouth.