editors

Eula Biss  |  Stephen Cope  |  Catherine Taylor

Eula Biss

Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press 2002)a book The Believer praised as "aesthetically risky."  She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and she teaches creative nonfiction writing at Northwestern University. Her work has been recognized by a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her essays are forthcoming in several anthologies including The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, and have recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Columbia, Ninth Letter, American Poet, the North American Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Stephen Cope

Stephen Cope's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in  XCP:Cross-Cultural Poetics, Mirage: A Period(ical), Denver Quarterly, Shark, The Germ, and elsewhere. In Spring 2001, he served as guest editor of The Review of Contemporary Fiction's special issue on the work of David Antin. He is currently editing the collected prose and selected papers of George Oppen for University of California Press, from which numerous selections have published (most recently in Jubilat, Facture, and The Best New American Poetry). He teaches creative writing and American Literature at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, where he is Visiting Assistant Professor of English.

Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor is an Assistant Professor in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University.  She is the author of Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam) a book Library Journal called “a delightfully readable blend of scholarship, exposé, and storytelling that is likely to become a classic.”  Taylor has worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of PBS projects in New York City including “The Exiles” which won an Emmy award for historical programming, and she was a Co-founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Taylor attended Cornell and Oxford Universities and received her Ph.D. in English from Duke University. Her essays, poetry, and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, Xantippe, PMC: Postmodern Culture, Quarter After Eight, Nightsun, and The Colorado Review.