– 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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