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CONTRIBUTOR BIOS FICTION Sharon Hashimoto teaches at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington. Her short stories have appeared in North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tampa Review, Shenandoah, THEMA and others. Her book of poetry is The Crane Wife, co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and published by Story Line Press in 2003. She received a NEA creative writing fellowship for poetry in 1989. Anu Kandikuppa is an economist and a candidate in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina. She lives in Boston with her family and is online at www.anukandikuppa.com. Wah-Ming Chang has received fellowships for fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Urban Artist Initiative, and the Bronx Writers' Center. Her fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review and Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, nonfiction in Words without Borders and the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Open City, and photography in Drunken Boat and Open City. She is currently working on a photo essay about the essence of the dance rehearsal. Raised in New England, Kaitlin Solimine has considered China a second home for almost two decades. She's been a Harvard-Yenching scholar, a Fulbright fellow, the Donald E. Axinn Scholar at Bread Loaf, and winner of the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Award. She wrote and edited Let's Go: China (St. Martin's Press) and her work has been featured in Guernica, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Hairpin, and The World of Chinese Magazine. Her essays are forthcoming in anthologies published by Earnshaw Books and The Places We've Been. Find her at www.kaitlinsolimine.com. POETRY Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012), Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002). Her books have been honored by the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (chosen by Cole Swensen) and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry (selected by Heather McHugh). The recipient of a 80
ISSUE 15 | SPRING 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, she chairs the English department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist. Henry W. Leung is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of Paradise Hunger, which won the 2012 Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest. He is also a columnist for the Lantern Review, a Soros Fellow, and working toward completion of his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in such publications as Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. Purvi Shah believes in the miracle of poetry and the beauty of change. Winner of the inaugural SONY South Asian Social Services Award in 2008 for her work fighting violence against women, she also directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project to highlight the voices of Asian Americans during the 10th anniversary of 9/11. She writes to plumb migration and loss, including through her first book, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), which was nominated for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award in 2007. In 2010 she received a Travel & Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation to explore sound vibration and meaning in Sanskrit and how sound energy can translate through poetry in English. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Descant, Drunken Boat, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indivisible, The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, and Weber Studies. You can find more of her work at http://purvipoets.net, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/purvi-shah, or @PurviPoets. NONFICTION Jackson Bliss earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame where he was the Fiction Fellow and the 2007 Sparks Prize Winner. Now, he is finishing his PhD in English and Creative at USC, working with TC Boyle, Viet Nguyen and Aimee Bender. Jackson has work published in the Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Fiction, Quarterly West, ZYZZYVA, Fiction International, Notre Dame Review, African American Review, Quarter After Eight, Connecticut Review, Stand (UK), and 3:am Magazine, among others. Sean Labrador y Manzano lives on the island off the coast of Oakland. He edits the anthology, Conversations at the Wartime Café. His chapbook, The Gulag Arkipelago is published by Tinfish. Recent writing appears in Aufgabe, Eleven Eleven, Generations, Conversations at a Wartime Café (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/sean-labrador-y-manzano), Fag/Hag, Volt, The Walrus, Tarpaulin Sky (http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/issue-17/index.html), The Poetry of Yoga, Poetic Labor Project (http://labday2010.blogspot.com/2011/10/seanlabrador-y-manzano.html) and elsewhere. 81
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MISSION STATEMENT Kartika Review se
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EDITORIAL Eugenia Leigh Dear Reader
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