ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Richard Bausch teaches at Chapman University in Orange, California. In 2013 he was an REA Award recipient for his work in short fiction. He is the author of thirteen novels,…    read more

Karl Taro Greenfeld’s fiction has appeared this year in the Paris Review, The Sun, Commentary, the Southern Review, Zyzzyva, Santa Monica Review,  New York Tyrant and American Short Fiction and…    read more

Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia in 1964, of Ukrainian descent on his father’s side and Bosnian, of Serb background on his mother’s side. He graduated…    read more

Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived in South Korea for a year before joining the U. S. Army. He served in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the…    read more

Christina Hutchins’s work appears in Alehouse, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, the Southern Review and Women’s Review of Books. She has received two Barbara Deming…    read more

Michael Piafsky is a former professor and director of the writing program at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. His recent fiction, interviews, and nonfiction have appeared in the Normal…    read more

Jerald Walker attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an assistant professor of English at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. “The Mechanics of Being” is from a collection of…    read more

May-lee Chai’s latest collection of short stories, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, is forthcoming in fall 2018 from Blair. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Asian/Pacific American Award…    read more

David Wagoner was born in eastern Ohio, grew up between Gary and Chicago and has lived in or near Seattle since 1954. He is now a professor of English emeritus…    read more

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home (Scribner, 2010) and the short story collection Music Through the Floor (Scribner, 2005), which was a finalist for the New York…    read more