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RICK MOODY’s forthcoming memoir is The Long Accomplishment (Henry Holt).
JAMES MORROW is the author of ten novels, including The Godhead Trilogy (Harcourt), The Last Witchfinder (William Morrow), and Galápagos Regained (St. Martin’s Press). He has received the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
Longtime Conjunctions contributor JOYCE CAROL OATES’s latest books include the novels Hazards of Time Travel and A Book of American Martyrs, and the collections Beautiful Days (all Ecco) and Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (Mysterious Press).
JAMES ARTHUR O’CONNOR (1792–1841) was a self-taught Irish painter best known for his landscape paintings. The son of an engraver and printer, he traveled to London with painters Francis Danby and George Petrie, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1822.
MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow HAN ONG is the author of the novels Fixer Chao and The Disinherited (both FSG). His writings have been published in Bomb and Zoetrope: All-Story.
DANIELE PANTANO is a Swiss poet, artist, literary translator, critic, and editor. His most recent works include Robert Walser: Comedies (Seagull Books), ORAKL (Black Lawrence Press), Robert Walser’s Fairy Tales: Dramolettes (New Directions), and Dogs in Untended Fields: Selected Poems by Daniele Pantano (Wolfbach Verlag).
PAUL PARK has published twelve novels in a variety of genres and three collections of stories. He teaches at Williams College.
CECILY PARKS is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press) and O’Nights (Alice James), and editor of The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman’s). Her writing about the night in nineteenth-century literature has been featured on the podcast Nocturne and is forthcoming in the anthology 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive (Milkweed Editions).
STEVEN POTTER has an MFA from New York University. “The House at the End of the Night” is his first publication.
BIN RAMKE’s most recent book is Light Wind Light Light, from Omnidawn.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions). With Jennifer Phelps, she coedited Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry (University of Akron Press). Vulnerability Index is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2019.
MARTHA RONK is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently a book on photographs, Ocular Proof. Her forthcoming book is Silences (both Omnidawn).
SEJAL A. SHAH’s first book of essays is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press through its literary nonfiction series, Crux. She lives in Rochester, New York.
GEORGE SHIRAS (1859–1942) was a US representative from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, credited by National Geographic as “the father of wildlife photography.” He was one of the first to use camera traps and flash photography to capture images of animals, and the discovery of a moose subspecies, Alces alces shirasi (“Shiras’s Moose”), was attributed to him.
BENNETT SIMS is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape, which received the Bard Fiction Prize, and the collection White Dialogues (both Two Dollar Radio). He is a recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and teaches fiction at the University of Iowa.
COLE SWENSEN is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently On Walking On (Nightboat Books). A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the PEN USA Award in translation, among others. She teaches at Brown University.
SALLIE TISDALE is the author of nine books, most recently Advice for Future Corpses (Simon & Schuster).
DANIEL TORDAY’s most recent novel, Boomer1, will be out in paperback from Picador in fall 2019.
FREDERIC TUTEN is the author of five novels, most recently The Green Hour, as well as a book of interwoven short stories, Self-Portraits: Fictions (both W. W. Norton). He is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and an O’Henry Prize for fiction. His memoir, My Young Life (Simon & Schuster), was published in March.
ANNE WALDMAN is the author, most recently, of Jaguar Harmonics (Post-Apollo), Voice’s Daughter of a Heart to Be Born (Coffee House), and Trickster Feminism (Penguin). She is a recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. Bard, Kinetic is forthcoming from Coffee House. Waldman is artistic director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University.
G. C. WALDREP’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo) and the long poem Testament (BOA Editions). Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch.
ROBERT WALSER (1878–1956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and three novels: The Tanners (1906), The Assistant (1908), and Jakob Von Gunten (1909). In 1933, he abandoned writing and entered a sanatorium, where he remained for the rest of his life. Robert Walser: The Poems, edited and translated by Daniele Pantano, is forthcoming in 2020 by Seagull Books, London.
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