Mikhail Iossel; Media Credit: Andrew Dobrowolskyj

Highlights from the April 2006 issue

The fourth issue of the Gingko Tree Review was released in April 2006.

Aimee Bender
Featured in an interview by Shera Palmer and John Wintermann

Aimee Bender is the author of An Invisible Sign of My Own, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and, most recently, Willful Creatures: Stories.

Mikhail Iossel
Featured work: The Unfinished City, essay

Mikhail Iossel, a native of Leningrad, writes both in English and in Russian. His stories in English have appeared in many literary magazines and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. A collection of stories, Every Hunter Wants to Know, has been translated into several languages. Currently, he is the permanent writer-in-residence at Union College and the Faculty Director of the Petersburg Writers' Workshop.

Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin
Featured work: Our Mother Tongue, Emily; poetry

Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin is a poet and editor whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Orbis, Staple, The Shop, Anon, Agenda, Envoi, The Frogmore Papers, Borderlines, The Inner Door, and Van Gogh's Ear. She is currently the poetry editor of Dublin's literary magazine, The Stinging Fly.

Daniel T. O'Hara
Featured work: Two Jealousies; Creature; A Prayer for James Wright, Poet of Nature; poetry

Daniel T. O'Hara, Professor of English and First Mellon Term Professor of Humanities at Temple University, is the author of five books on modern critical and cultural theory, including most recently, Empire Burlesque: the Fate of Critical Culture in Global America (Duke, 2003) and the editor or co-editor of five other volumes, including (with Gina MacKenzie) the new Barnes and Noble Classics edition of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. Currently, he is completing a volume of poems entitled The Quantum Loves and a critical project about psychoanalytically informed cultural theory entitled The Ultimate Muse: Imagining the Real in Contemporary Cultural Studies from Modernism to Fundamentalism.

Riccardo Falcinelli & Marta Poggi
Featured work: Cardiaferrania; graphic novel

Riccardo Falcinelli is director of Mediagrafia. Marta Poggi lives in Milan. Their graphic novel, Cardiaferrania, is considered an important contribution to the Italian Noir movement.