Open City 28, Winter 2010

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

SOPHIE CABOT BLACK has two poetry collections, The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award and The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She currently teaches at Columbia University.

JONATHAN DEE is the author of five novels, including the forthcoming The Privileges, from which his piece in this issue is excerpted. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper’s, and a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School.

LOUIS B. JONES has published three novels: Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, and California’s Over, all named New York Times Notable Books. He is an NEA fellow and a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He has written screenplays—originals and adaptations of his own work—for studios and for independents. For some years he has been fiction director for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

GARY LIPPMAN is a lawyer (currently doing part-time pro bono work at New York’s Innocence Project), and a father, not necessarily in that order. His play Paradox Lust was produced off-Broadway in 2001, and six of his Stories for People with a Modern Attention Span appeared in Open City 27. His piece in this issue is excerpted from his as-yet-unpublished novel We Loved the World But Could Not Stay.

SAM LIPSYTE is the author of the story collection Venus Drive, and the novels The Subject Steve and Home Land. His contribution to this issue is an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, The Ask. He lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Columbia University.

MIRANDA LICHTENSTEIN (cover) is represented by Elizabeth Dee in New York and Gallery Min Min in Tokyo. She was a recent fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy. She lives and works in New York City.

SARAH MALONE is in the MFA program in fiction at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and blogs about things literary and otherwise at sarahwrotethat.com. This is her first published story.

LESLIE MASLOW grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and now lives in Brooklyn. She attended Oberlin and received an MFA in playwriting from the New School in 1999. This is her first published story.

MICHAEL McGRATH is currently a Hoyns/Poe-Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he reads, writes, and teaches. This is his first published story.

BEN NACHUMI is an underemployed physicist and tutor living in Brooklyn. This is his second appearance in Open City.

KEVIN OBERLIN lives and writes in Cincinnati. He holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his chapbook Spotlit Girl won the 2007 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize.

ADAM PETERSON lives in Houston, Texas, where he is the co-editor of The Cupboard. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, and Denver Quarterly among other journals.

JAMES SCHUYLER (1923–1991) received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Morning of the Poem in 1981. The poems in this issue are forthcoming in Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet.

DAN SOFAER graduated from the University of Chicago, and also studied classics in Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He took classes as an adult student in drawing and painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He then studied more Greek and Latin at UC Berkeley where he wrote an article on Aristophanes’ songs in The Birds. He lives in Woodstock, New York, and Yelping Hill, Connecticut.

CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO has written three books, including Trance, a National Book Award finalist. He is currently working on a novel about identity.

LAURIE STONE is author of three books of fiction and nonfiction and has published memoir pieces in Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, and Threepenny Review, among other publications. A longtime writer for The Village Voice, The Nation, and Ms. Magazine, she is currently at work on My Life As an Animal: A Memoir in Stories, Unmarked Trail: A Romance in Stories, and a guide to setting up a writing partnership in collaboration with Richard Toon.