– Contributors –

KAREN HOLMBERG is an associate professor teaching in the MFA Programme at Oregon State University. Her primary genre is poetry but she has written and published in many literary magazines including New England Review, Indiana Review and Black Warrior Review. Her most recent poetry collection, Axis Mundi, won the 2012 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. PATRICK MCGUINNESS is the author of the Man Booker and Costa listed The Last Hundred Days (2011), and the memoir Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory (2014) which won the Duff Cooper prize. He has also written two collections of poetry, several translations and a number of books about poetry, French literature and theatre. He lives in Caernarfon, and teaches in Oxford.

DASHA SHKURPELA was born in Kyrgyzstan, lives in New York and works in painting, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited her work internationally since 1995. She writes art criticism and explores past and present of the former Soviet space through looking at objects that remained. Dasha is an alumna of the American University in Central Asia, Central European University in Budapest, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and the City University of New York Writers’ Institute.

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