Contributors:

 

Marian Halls was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and has lived portions of her life in Brazil, Guatemala, California, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. She is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she currently divides her time between creative and academic work.

Nathan Hoks’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Octopus Magazine, Pilot Magazine, The Burnside Review, Court Green and CutBank. He teaches English at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, and leads a poetry workshop during summers at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.

Valerie Reed is a dissertator in the Department of Comparative Literature at UW-Madison. She lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin.

Kerstin Schaars founded HarrietandLeone.net in February 2005. She is working on a dissertation concerning how Literature challenges Ethics through the Department of Comparative Literature at UW-Madison. Kerstin teaches a course on movement and bodies in literature in the department. She lives in Wisconsin and Virginia.