ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem &…    read more

Michael McGriff is the author of the poetry collections Choke and Dismantling the Hills. The latter is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is also the translator of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow…    read more

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s latest book, My Husband Would (University of Tampa, 2020), won the 2021 Connecticut Book Award for poetry.  His earlier books include Space Traveler (University of Tampa, 2014)…    read more

Burt Kimmelman has published six collections of poetry—As if Free (Talisman House, 2009) the latest—and a number of literary-critical books and essays, as well as a brief memoir of his…    read more

In a career that spanned the first four decades of the 20th century, Zane Grey wrote what would eventually be–after they were all published–an astounding eighty-nine books, with over 130…    read more

Jon Billman was a wildland firefighter in eastern Washington and western South Dakota.  When We Were Wolves and ZYZZYVA are his first story publications. [1996]

Andrea Barrett is the author of several novels including The Forms of Water. [1994]

Ryan Harty’s short-story collection, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, won the John Simmons Short Fiction award and will be published in October. He also has stories forthcoming in the Pushcart…    read more

Tracy Crow is a former award-winning Marine Corps journalist whose feature articles about Marine life and combat training have appeared in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times,…    read more

Monica Berlin received her MFA from Vermont College. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Indiana Review, The Comstock Review, and Flyway. Berlin is an assistant professor of English at…    read more