Yale Review | contributors

David Bergman is the author of two books of poems, Heroic Measures and Cracking the Code, which won the George Elliston Poetry Prize. His most recent book is the collection Gay American Poetry: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris. He teaches at Towson University.

Robert Boyers is editor of Salmagundi, director of The New York State Summer Writers Institute, and the author of nine books. ‘‘My Others’’ will be included in a memoiristic book he is completing on the fate of ideas.

Alex Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging For It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in early 2013. He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize for younger poets from The American Poetry Review and the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Slate, Tin House, and Boston Review.

B. H. Fairchild was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002 for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, and has been the recipient of many other awards and fellowships. In 2009 his book Usher was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of their twenty-five favorites that year in poetry and fiction. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Hudson Review, and other journals and anthologies

Dewey Faulkner has taught at Yale and at the University of Texas in San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper television, and radio as a music critic.

Irving Feldman's Collected Poems, 1954– 2004 was published by Schocken Books. For many years he taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, from which he retired as Distinguished Professor of English.

David Galef is a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University. His latest book is the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Books).

William Gass is the author of novels (including The Tunnel), short story and novella collections, and essay collections (including A Temple of Texts), which have won numerous awards. He is David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, where he founded the International Writers Center. ‘‘Narrative Sentences’’ is from the book Life Sentences, forthcoming from Knopf this season.

Robert A. Gross is James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. The original version of the essay appearing in this issue was delivered in 2009 as the inaugural Howard Foundation lecture at Brown University. His essay ‘‘Quiet War with the State: Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience,’’ was published in the October 2005 issue of The Yale Review. He is the co-editor with Mary Kelley of An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1850 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

Mary Stewart Hammond is author of Out of Canaan (W. W. Norton). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Criterion, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and others. She lives in New York City, where she teaches master classes in poetry through the New York Writers Workshop.

Mairi MacInnes is author of a number of collections of poems, including Elsewhere and Back: Selected Poems and The Ghostwriter (both Bloodaxe Books) and The Pebble (University of Illinois Press), as well as two novels and a memoir, Clearances. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Witter Bynner and Ingram Merrill foundations.

David Mason's, memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends, appeared in 2010, and the essay collection, Two Minds of a Western Poet, was published last year. Recent poems appeared in The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, Threepenny Review, and other journals. His verse novel Ludlow (2007) was named best book of poetry by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He teaches at Colorado College.

Jean McGarry's, most recent book is Ocean State, a collection of short stories published last year by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Her newest work is Blue Boy, a novella about art and its devotees.

Robert Messenger is the books editor of The Wall Street Journal and on the faculty of the Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Michael Miller's, first collection, The Joyful Dark, was published by Ashland Poetry Press and his second, The Singing Inside, by Birch Brook Press. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, and other journals.

Wilmer Mills died on July 25, 2011 after a very short battle with liver cancer. He was Writer-In-Residence at Covenant College, and the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2008–2010). His collection Light for the Orphans (2002) was published by Story Line Press. Originally from South Louisiana, he lived in Tennessee with his wife and two children.).

Penelope Niven is the author of Carl Sandburg: A Biography; Steichen: A Biography; Swimming Lessons; Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet (for children); and co-author with James Earl Jones of Voices and Silences. She is the recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Thornton Wilder Visiting Fellowship at the Beinecke Library, and the North Carolina Award in Literature.

Tom Sleigh is currently a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His books include After One; Waking; The Chain; The Dreamhouse; Far Side of the Earth; a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost; and Space Walk, winner of the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award. His latest book, Army Cats (2011) was published by Graywolf Press. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at Hunter College in New York City.

Caleb Smith is associate professor of English at Yale, where he teaches courses in American literature and culture. He is the author of The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press), and he is working on a new book about the idea of ‘‘higher law’’ in the era before the Civil War. He is a contributor to journals including Berkeley Fiction Review, Minnesota Review, and BOMB.

Charles Taylor has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, Dissent, Salon.com, and other publications. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, he teaches in New York City.

Alexander Theroux's most recent book is Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery (Fantagraphics), published late last year.

George Witte is the editor in chief of St. Martin’s Press. His two previous collections of poems, Deniability (2009) and The Apparitioners (2005) are available from Orchises Press.

Valerie Wohlfeld's collection, Thinking the World Visible, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her poetry collection, Woman with Wing Removed, was published in 2010 by Truman State University Press. She received an M.F.A. from Vermont College. Her work has appeared in New England Review, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Edmund White author of twenty-five books, has just published the novel Jack Holmes and His Friend and the essay collection Sacred Monsters. He teaches at Princeton and lives in New York.

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Stephen Yenser has written books about Robert Lowell and James Merrill and is coeditor (with J. D. McClatchy) of five volumes of James Merrill’s work. His most recent collection of poems is Blue Guide. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.