ISSUE 16 | FALL 2013
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is also the winner of the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he lives in Brooklyn. April Naoko Heck was born in Tokyo and relocated with her family to the U.S. when she was seven. Her first collection of poems, A Nuclear Family, is due from UpSet Press in Fall 2013. A Kundiman fellow, April works for the NYU Creative Writing Program and lives in Brooklyn.
Minh Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam and became a Riverside, CA native at age eight. He received his M.F.A. from UC Riverside. His poetry has been published in Yes, Poetry; Diverse Voices Quarterly; Mascara Literary Review; and others.
Chris Santiago’s poems and book reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from FIELD, Pleiades, The Asian American Literary Review, Canteen, Postcolonial Text, Lantern Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets, and has been a finalist for both the Stony Brook Short Fiction Contest and the Kundiman Poetry Prize. He teaches literature & writing at the University of Southern California, where he is a doctoral candidate and an ACENikaido Fellow. He lives in Pasadena with his wife and two sons. Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the associate editor of Lantern Review. Her poems have recently appeared in Greensboro Review, Cutbank, Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, Asian American Literary Review, and others. She lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent was the winner of the 2012 Kore First Book Award, judged by Bhanu Kapil. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, The Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, Witness and others. She lives in DC, where she teaches, writes and edits Drunken Boat. 115