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– Note on Contributors – MICHAEL IGNATIEFF teaches human rights and politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of ­Toronto. He is the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the author of fifteen works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics. J. T. BARBARESE has published five books of poetry and a translation of Euripides’ Children of Herakles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). His poetry and translations have appeared in many journals and magazines, including the ­Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement; his fiction in Boulevard, NAR, and, prior to becoming its editor in 2008, in,StoryQuarterly; and his literary journalism in Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The New York Times, and The Columbia History of American Poetry. He is presently Senior Editor of StoryQuarterly. BELLE BOGGS is the author of Mattaponi Queen, a collection of linked stories, and the forthcoming novel The Ugly Bear List, both from Graywolf Press. Mattaponi Queen won the Bakeless Prize and the Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award from the Library of Virginia, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her 144
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– Contributors – work has ap­peared in Orion, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Slate, The Sun, and The New New South, among other publications. LESLIE JAMISON was born in Washington DC and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Harper’s, The New York Times, The Believer, and Oxford American. Her first novel, The Gin Closet, was a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Award, and her second book, a collection of essays called The Empathy Exams, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and will be published by Graywolf and Granta UK in 2014. ANDREW O’HAGAN was born in Glasgow in 1968. He wrote The Missing and four novels, two of which were nominated for the Booker Prize, as well as a book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean. He writes for the London Review of Books and The New York Times. SAMEER RAHIM is Assistant Books Editor at the Telegraph. 145

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– Note on Contributors –

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF teaches human rights and politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of ­Toronto. He is the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the author of fifteen works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics.

J. T. BARBARESE has published five books of poetry and a translation of Euripides’ Children of Herakles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). His poetry and translations have appeared in many journals and magazines, including the ­Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement; his fiction in Boulevard, NAR, and, prior to becoming its editor in 2008, in,StoryQuarterly; and his literary journalism in Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The New York Times, and The Columbia History of American Poetry. He is presently Senior Editor of StoryQuarterly.

BELLE BOGGS is the author of Mattaponi Queen, a collection of linked stories, and the forthcoming novel The Ugly Bear List, both from Graywolf Press. Mattaponi Queen won the Bakeless Prize and the Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award from the Library of Virginia, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her

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