Northern New England Review Volume 42 | 2022

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES (CONT.)
A teacher and writer for over forty years, KAREN L. KILCUP
is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of American Literature,
Environmental & Sustainability Studies, and Women's, Gender, &
Sexuality Studies at UNC Greensboro. Her academic publications
include Who Killed American Poetry?: From National Obsession to
Elite Possession, a deliberately provocative title. Her forthcoming book,
winner of the 2021 Winter Goose Poetry Prize, is titled The Art of
Restoration. Kilcup was raised on a farm and surrounded by laconic
New Englanders, a rural history that animates much of her work.
KATHERINE LEONARD grew up in the US and Italy. She lived
in Massachusetts at the time of John F Kennedy's assassination and as a
high school student in rural Texas, experienced segregation and Martin
Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. She has been a chemist, a geologist and
an oncology nurse/nurse practitioner. Her work has been previously
published in literary journals, including Sonora Review, FERAL, Hole
in the Head Review, Speckled Trout Review, and Tipping the Scales. Her
work is upcoming in Amethyst Review and Stone Canoe.
MIRIAM LEVINE is the author of Saving Daylight, her fifth
collection of poetry. Another collection, The Dark Opens, was
chosen by Mark Doty for the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other
books include Devotion, a memoir, and In Paterson, a novel.
Levine, a fellow of the NEA and a grantee of the Massachusetts
Artists Foundation, lives in Florida and New Hampshire. She has
completed a new collection of poems, Sex, Death and the Hours.
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