VIDA Committees
Editorial Committee
Barrie Jean Borich, Chair
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, forthcoming in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage (Graywolf) won the ALA Stonewall Book Awards. She’s the recipient of the 2010 Florida Review Editor’s Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and her essays appear in recent issues of Ecotone, Seneca Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, South Loop Review, and Seattle Review. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading and she teaches in the MFA/BFA creative writing programs at Hamline University, where she’s the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review. (www.barriejeanborich.net).
Melinda Wilson, Managing Editor
Melinda Wilson’s chapbook Amplexus was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2010, and her poems have appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Verse Daily, Diner, WOMB, Avatar Review, The Lumberyard, Agriculture Reader and elsewhere. She is Managing Editor and regular contributor of criticism for Coldfront Magazine (www.coldfrontmag.com). In 2005, Melinda was recipient of the Daniel Morin Poetry Prize judged by Charles Simic and Mekeel McBride at The University of New Hampshire. She completed an MFA in poetry at The New School in 2007 and currently lives and teaches in New York City.
Supriya Bhatnagar
Supriya Bhatnagar is the Director of Publications for The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and the Editor of the Writer’s Chronicle. Her MFA in Creative Nonfiction is from George Mason University. She has published short stories in Femina and on <4Indianwoman.com>. Serving House Books published her memoir and then there were three… in September of 2010. An essay from this memoir, “Color,” has appeared in Perigee and a version of “Shattered” in Artful Dodge.
Carmen Giménez-Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, and publisher for Noemi Press as well as editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol. Her work has most recently appeared in jubilat, Ploughshares and Colorado Review and is forthcoming in A Public Space, Denver Quarterly and New American Writing. Her collection of poetry, Odalisque in Pieces, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2009. A memoir called Bring Down the Little Birds will be published by University of Arizona Press in 2010.
Outreach Committee
Danielle Pafunda, Co-Director
Danielle Pafunda is author of Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press 2009), My Zorba (Bloof Books 2008), Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull Press 2005), and the forthcoming Manhater (Dusie Press Books). A selection of her work appears in the anthology Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2010). She was co-editor of the longstanding online journal La Petite Zine (www.lapetitezine.org) from 2002-2009, and curates poetics forums at the feminist literary blog Delirious Hem. She is an assistant professor of gender & women’s studies & English at the University of Wyoming. (Danielle Pafunda’s blog)
Kara Candito, Co-Director
Kara Candito is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Diode, and Best New Poets 2007. She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Becca Klaver, VIDA Calendar
Becca Klaver was born and raised in Milwaukee and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Columbia College Chicago, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University. A founding editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, she is the author of the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost, 2009) and the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010).
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano, winner of the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit, winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year (both from Tupelo Press). Other honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Pushcart Prize. New work appears in American Poetry Review, Tin House, and Orion. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia, where she was named the Hagan Young Scholar and a recipient of the Chancellor’s Medal. She lives in Western NY with her husband and son. (www.aimeenez.net)
