Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Red Summer (Tupelo 2006), was selected by Carl Phillips as winner of the 2005 Dorset Prize. Educated at Howard University and Cornell University, his honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Robert Frost Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and three Pushcart nominations. His work has been published in New England Review, VQR, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Eleven Eleven, and elsewhere. He is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Alice Benson lives in Wisconsin with her wife and their dog. She recently retired from a job in a human services field; previously she spent over thirteen years working with a domestic violence program. Her Read more