Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007) and Arbitrary Tales (Ravenna Press, 2005). His translations include Raul Zurita's Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010) and Jaime Luis Huenun's Port Trakl (Action Books, 2008), among others. His work has been anthologized in, among others, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books); Seriously Funny (University of Georgia Press, 2010); and Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA (El billar de Lucrecia, 2010). Journal publications include Fence, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Chicago Review, TriQuarterly, and many others. Chapbooks include Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull, 2007) and One Size Fits All Scantily Class Press, 2009). He lives in Chicago.
Daniel Borzutzky
Jaimy Gordon
Jaimy Gordon is the author of six books, most recently the National Book Award-winning novel Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co, 2010), set in the world of small-time West Virginia horse racing. The novel was also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and won the Dr. Tony Ryan Award for the year's best book about horse racing. Gordon's novel She Drove Without Stopping (Algonquin, 1990) was awarded an Academy-Institute Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Bogeywoman (2000) was named an LA Times Best Book of the year. Shamp of the City-Solo, her first novel, has long been considered an underground classic by her fans. Her short story "A Night's Work," which provided part of the inspiration for Lord of Misrule, appeared in the Best American Short Stories 1995. Her short fiction, poems, essays, and translations have appeared in the Colorado Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry International, and many other journals.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
kdelamon@nd.edu
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novel Once Upon a River (July 2011, W.W. Norton). She was a 2009 National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for her collection of stories, American Salvage. Campbell is the author of the novel Q Road and the story collection Women & Other Animals. She's received the AWP Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the Eudora Welty Prize, and she has been awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Blake Butler
Blake Butler's most recent books are There is No Year and Nothing. He edits HTML Giant and lives in Atlanta.
Past 2012 NDLF events
Rachel McKibbens and Mindy Nettifee: In October, two veterans of the slam poetry scene, Rachel McKibbens and Mindy Nettifee, visited Notre Dame as one stop on their nationwide tour. Titled "The Last Nerve: A High Tea Poetry Brawl," McKibbens and Nettifee burst onto campus armed with teacups, lace handkerchiefs, brashness, and a powerful performance energized by their feminist poetry. Both questioning and asserting the identity of female artists, McKibbens and Nettifee also shared emotional experiences influencing their own artistic journeys.
McKibbens and Nettifee both gave energetic, raw, and exciting performances, and everyone who attended the performance spoke about how much they enjoyed the act's uniqueness. The poetry slam began a great year for NDLF!