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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 19, SPRING 2008) Jürgen Becker is the author of over thirty books—novels, story collections, poetry collections, and plays—all published by Germany’s premier publisher, Suhrkamp. He has won numerous prizes in Germany, including the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and the Hermann Lenz Prize, among others. Mark D. Bennion has taught writing and literature courses at Brigham Young University-Idaho for the past seven years. In 2000, he graduated with an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. Recently his poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, Irreantum, and Animus, and forthcoming in caesura, Aurorean, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Mark and his wife, Kristine, are the parents of three daughters. Jessica M. Brophy is currently writing her English Ph.D. dissertation at Morgan State University. She has been published in the Greenwood Encylopedia of African American Women Writers and Burning Leaf, and forthcoming work will appear in the Cherry Blossom Review and Literary Horizons. She also teaches writing at Villa Julie College in Stevenson, MD and enjoys walking, letter writing, and collecting earrings. Jason Lee Brown teaches analytical writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he lives with his wife Haruka. His work has appeared in The Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Post Road, Ecotone and others. He was recently nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry and just finished co-editing the anthology Best of the Midwest: Fresh Writing from Twelve States with Shanie Latham. Teri Ellen Cross has an M.F.A. from American University and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and journals including Bum Rush the Page: a Def Poetry Jam, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Torch, and the upcoming summer issue of Gargoyle. She lives in Silver Spring, MD. John Michael Cummings’ short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Iowa Review, and forthcoming in The Kenyon Review. He has been twice nominated for The Pushcart Prize. His debut novel, The Night I Freed John Brown, is scheduled to be published by Penguin in May of 2008. Stephanie Dickinson lives in New York City. Her work appears in Cream City Review, Green Mountains Review, African-American Review, and Chelsea, among others. Rain Mountain Press, a publishing collective, recently released her book of short stories, Road of Five Churches and Corn Goddess, a poetry collection. “Pig farmer’s Stepfather” received a distinguished story citation in Best American 2007 Short Stories. Okla Elliott is currently an M.F.A. student at Ohio State University and also holds an M.A. from UNC-Greensboro. His nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations appear in such journals as Blue Mesa Review, Cold Mountain Review, International Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Sewanee Theological Review. He is the author of The Mutable Wheel and Lucid Bodies and Other Poems. Kim Foster’s work has appeared previously in Curve and Bellevue Literary Review, among other publications. An avid reader of Southern literature, she lives near Atlanta and is at work on a novel. Charles R. Gillespie lives in Imperial, Texas. Karen Hildebrand grew up in Colorado and, after spending a few years in San Francisco, now lives in NYC where she works in magazine publishing. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals and she blogs about life in NYC on her website. Claire Ibarra was a Montessori teacher for ten years but has been writing stories since she can remember. She and her husband own a hostel in the Andes Mountains of Peru, which is the setting for the current novel she’s writing. When Claire is not traveling in Peru, she’s taking creative writing classes and raising a family in Miami, FL. Luisa A. Igloria is an Associate Professor at Old Dominion University. Luisa has published 9 books including Encanto (Anvil, 2004), In The Garden of The Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995), and most recently Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005). Trill & Mordent was nominated for the 9th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards in 2006, and received a 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. Deb Jurmu is a transplanted “Yooper” now living in Bethesda, MD where she works for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She received her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in May 2006. This is her second appearance in Natural Bridge. David Dodd Lee is the author of the forthcoming book of poems, Automatic Thank You Kisses, (Four Way Books, 2009). He is also the author of four previous books of poems, including Abrupt Rural (New Issues, 2004), and he is the editor of SHADE, an anthology of poetry and fiction. He has recently completed a book of Ashbery Erasure poems. And new stories have appeared in Green Mountains Review and Controlled Burn. Nathan Leslie’s six books of fiction include Madre, Reverse Negative, and Drivers. Nathan’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared in over 100 literary magazines including Boulevard, Shenandoah, North American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine and series editor for the forthcoming Dzanc Books’ The Best of the Web 2007 anthology. Keming Liu is an Associate Professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York where she teaches literature, linguistics, and composition. She is also a guest professor at Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus where she lectures on Chinese literature and the arts. Liu holds a doctoral degree in linguistics from Columbia University's Teachers College. Aimee Loiselle writes fiction in Minnesota, but she is a New Englander who gets cranky if she can’t feel the ocean. Her stories have appeared in Square Lake and Out of Line, and her novel manuscript was short-listed for the 2007 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition. She currently mentors a high school student in Minneapolis and often nags him to read aloud. Bridget Meeds’ long poem “Light” was published in Wild Workshop (Faber and Faber, UK, 1997) and in American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Witness, Seneca Review, and Dos Passos Review. She has published full-length books Audience (2007) and Tuning the Beam (2000) with Vista Periodista. Julia Older’s translations of Blues For A Black Cat And Other Stories by Boris Vian were published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2001 and by Rupa Co in New Delhi, India in 2005. Her tenth poetry book, Tahirih Unveiled was published by Turning Point in 2007. Older’s essays, poems, and translations have appeared in Poets & Writers, Entelechy International, The New Yorker, New Letters and other publications. Jan Pettit was raised in a disappearing Nebraska town. She now lives and writes in Minneapolis, MN. Her poetry has appeared in Great River Review, South Dakota Review, Rosebud Magazine, Tusculum Review and in Nebraska Presence, an anthology of poets from Nebraska. She is currently working on a book of prose and poetry titled Nebraska: Excerpts from a Small Town. Zach Savich has had recent poems in and accepted by Kenyon Review, Jubilat, American Letters and Commentary, and other journals. He currently teaches at Kirkwood Community College. Eric Paul Shaffer’s fiction appears in Bakunin, Bamboo Ridge, Cutting Edge Quarterly, and Prose Ax. Burn & Learn, his first novel, will be published in 2008. He is also author of five books of poetry, including Lähaina Noon, Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen, and Portable Planet. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Slate, North American Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Carrie Shipers received her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. Recent poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Barrow Street, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. Her chapbook, Ghost-Writing, was recently released by Pudding House. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Joanna Sit is a poet who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared recently in Pegasus, Fickle Muses, and Poem. She teaches Composition at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Ryan Stone earned his M.F.A. from UM–St. Louis in 2004. His fiction has appeared in Natural Bridge (“Hotel Carnival,” no. 4), Wisconsin Review, and the anthology Under the Arch: St. Louis Stories. He teaches writing at Missouri State University–West Plains. Boris Vian (1920 1959) has been called a novelist, playwright, librettist, essayist, jazz critic, trumpeter, engineer, inventor, songwriter, singer, actor, poet, and a few names not fit for print. He frequented jazz caves with Edith Piaf and Simone de Beauvoir and translated American noir mysteries for friend and Gallimard editor Jean Paul Sartre, who nominated Vian’s novel for the French Pleiade Award mentioned in “The Priest in Swim Trunks.” Angela Vogel’s poems have appeared in POOL, Barrow Street, Southern Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, RHINO, and Pebble Lake Review, and forthcoming in The National Poetry Review. She is a 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee, and her chapbook, Social Smile, was published in 2004 by Finishing Line Press. She teaches creative writing at Florida Community College at Jacksonville and publishes New Zoo Poetry Review. Valerie Vogrin is the author of a novel, Shebang (University Press of Mississippi). Her stories have appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, and The Florida Review. She is an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and prose editor of Sou’wester. Yu Xiang lives in Ji’nan, Shandong Province. Yu received an award from China’s “Poetry Monthly” for its eleventh annual poetry contest in China. Claire Zoghb’s work has appeared in Yankee, Connecticut Review, CALYX, Saranac Review, Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America, Natural Bridge, and Through A Child’s Eyes (an anthology on children and war). A Pushcart nominee, Claire has been awarded honors from the Rita Dove Poetry Prize and Dogwood. She lives in New Haven, where she is a freelance graphic artist and book designer.
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