ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Dickman’s work has been published in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, Poet Lore, Rhino, Agni: online and www.fishousepoems.org, among others. He has received fellowships and/or residencies from Oregon Literary Arts, the Michener Center for Writers in Austin,…    read more

Carl Schiffman, an Editors’ Prize finalist, has published work in numerous literary magazines, including a previous appearance in the Missouri Review. [1999]

Tara Cottrell lives in northern California.  Her stories have appeared previously in Zyzzyva and Zoetrope: All-Story Extra. [2004]

Willa Rabinovitch was a finalist in the Editors’ Prize contest. Other stories have appeared in Sewanee Review and The Georgia Review.

Kathleen Norris has published seven books of poetry.  Her first book of poems was titled Falling Off and was the 1971 winner of the Big Table Younger Poets Award.

H. N. Schneidau has written books on Ezra Pound and on the Bible (Sacred Discontent).  He has a book on style in modernist literature.  He teaches at University of California,…    read more

Margaret Walker has lived and taught in Jackson, Mississippi, since 1949.  She has published ten books, including five volumes of poetry, one volume of essays, a biography of Richard Wright,…    read more

Austin Ratner’s short fiction has also appeared in Arts and Letters. He received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1998 but decided to pursue writing rather than medicine.…    read more

Although born in Portland, Oregon, Derek Mong was raised outside Cleveland and educated at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He has a brother living on the island of Kauai, parents…    read more

Jim Simmerman’s first collection of poems, Home, was published by Dragon Gate in April of 1983. Currently, he teaches in the writing program at Northern Arizona University.