ISSUES | Contributing Authors
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Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2008. Other stories of hers have appeared in the Mississippi Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She is currently… read more
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Joanne Diaz
Joanne Diaz received her MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times Foundation Fellow. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming inAGNI, American Poetry Review, Quarterly… read more
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Sally Keith
Sally Keith’s first book, Design, won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman. Her second manuscript, Dwelling Song, was chosen for publication by Bin Ramke and Fanny Howe for the University… read more
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Peter Jay Shippy
Peter Jay Shippy is the author of Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press, 2003), Alphaville (BlazeVOX BOOKS, 2006) and How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press,… read more
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Dwight Allen
Dwight Allen grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Lawrence University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker for not quite… read more
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Todd James Pierce
Todd James Pierce is the author of the novel A Woman of Stone and the short-story collection Newsworld, which won the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His recent work has appeared in… read more
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Robert Kimber
Robert Kimber has spent much of his life in country places and pursuits. His books, which include A Canoeist’s Sketchbook; Upcountry: Reflections from a Rural Life; and Living Wild and Domestic: The Education of… read more
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Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002) and Native Guard (2006). Her forthcoming book of prose,Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, will appear in… read more
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Peter LaSalle
Peter LaSalle is the author of nine books, including novels, story collections, and collections of essays on literary travel, most recently Sleeping Mask: Fictions (Bellevue Literary Press, 2017) and The… read more
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Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen novels, most recently The Probable Future, one book of stories, Local Girls, and five books for children, including Green Angel. Her book of… read more