Crab Orchard Review Vol 20 No 1 W/S 2015

Contributors’ Notes Katie Hartsock is the author of a chapbook, Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays (Toadlily Press). Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, she received a MFA from the University of Michigan, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. Her poems appear in Southwest Review, Southern Indiana Review, RHINO, Beloit Poetry Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, and elsewhere.

Jocelyn Heath is the 2014 winner of the Allison Joseph Poetry Award from Crab Orchard Review. She is a PhD student in poetry at Georgia State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, Sinister Wisdom, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. She has reviewed poetry for Lambda Literary and serves as an assistant editor for Smartish Pace.

M. Ayodele Heath’s TEDxTalk, “Poetry 2.0: Verses for a Technology Age,” highlights his most recent project as curator of the global collaborative poetry project, Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon (Svaha Paradox Salon). Recipient of fellowships to Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers (South Africa) and Cave Canem, his work has recently appeared in such journals as RHINO, Muzzle, and Chattahoochee Review. His full-length collection, Otherness, is available from Brick Road Poetry Press. He lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ming Lauren Holden most recently won Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction, Glimmer Train’s Family Matters Short Story Contest, and the USAID Frontiers in Development worldwide essay competition. Her first book, The Survival Girls (Wolfram Productions), is a work of nonfiction about her experience founding a theater group for refugee women in a Nairobi slum. Her nonfiction, literary translations, photography, and poetry can also be found in The Best American Poetry blog, The Daily Beast, Arts & Letters, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, The Poker, and others.

Rodney Jones’s most recent poetry book is Imaginary Logic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His eight other books include Salvation Blues, which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; Elegy for The Southern Drawl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Transparent Gestures, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A professor and distinguished 228 u Crab Orchard Review