Author: ciotola

  • Matthew Haynes

    Matthew Haynes is the author of the novella, Friday.  His short stories and essays appear in The Normal School, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Yellow Medicine Review.

  • James Henry Knippen

    James Henry Knippen’s poems have appeared in 32 Poems, AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, and The Missouri Review Online, among other journals.

  • West Branch 90, Spring/Summer 2019: Digital Issue

    West Branch 90, Spring/Summer 2019: Digital Issue

    Cover Art: Claw Machine (2018), by Aviv Benn, Oil, pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas, 76 x 60 in. (Artwork Photography: Jesse Meredith) Fiction Intro by Guest Editor … Read the rest

  • Callum Angus

    Callum Angus is a trans and queer writer with stories and essays in Nat. Brut, The Common, The Offing, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and elsewhere.

  • Raquel Salas Rivera

    Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. / Raquel Salas Rivera es la poeta laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19

  • West Branch 89, Winter 2019

    West Branch 89, Winter 2019

    Alyse Bensel, Adrienne Brock, Darin Ciccotelli, Lindsey Drager, Carolina Hotchandani, Christopher Kempf, Mark McMorris, Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Shara Lessley, Katherine Noble, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Matthew Olzmann, Benjamin Parzybok, Hilary Plum, … Read the rest

  • The Back of the Book: Essays & Reviews

    Book reviews by Raena Shirali, Christopher Kempf, Shara Lesssley, and Corey Van Landingham.

  • West Branch 89, Winter 2019: Digital Issue

    West Branch 89, Winter 2019: Digital Issue

    Cover art: Nothing Touches Bruce Wayne, by Taylor Anton White, acrylic, oil, charcoal, spray paint, colored pencil, airbrush, paper, and stitching on canvas, 58″ x 65″ Poetry Intro by … Read the rest

  • Diane Seuss: Guest Editor’s Note

    Diane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl(2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998).

  • An Interview with Leslie Harrison

    An Interview with Leslie Harrison

    Leslie Harrison’s second book, The Book of Endings (U of Akron, 2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Her first book, Displacement (Mariner, 2009) won the Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A former Roth Resident at Bucknell, she has recent poems in West Branch, The New Republic, The…