A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

Author: ciotola

  • Chen Chen

    Chen Chen is the author ofWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.

  • Matt Bell: Guest Editor’s Note

    Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall , among other titles. A native of Michigan, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State…

  • Daniel Moysaenko

    Daniel Moysaenko holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the author of the chapbook New Animal (H_NGM_N Books, 2015). Other work has appeared in Asymptote, The Journal, Oversound, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, Verse Daily, The Volta, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a poetry PhD at Florida State University.

  • Sarah Norek
    A whale, a tree, a vine

    Sarah Norek’s stories have appeared in The Cupboard, The Collagist, Juked, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Oregon.

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  • Kylan Rice
    The Inferno of the Same

    Kylan Rice has poetry and prose in Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a regular reviewer for West Branch.

  • Christopher J. Adamson
    Bodies Of

    Christopher J. Adamson is a California-based poet, critic, and essayist. His writing has appeared in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and publications including ZYZZYVA, Boston Review, Southwest Review and previously in West Branch.

  • An Interview with Sara Quinn Rivara

    An Interview with Sara Quinn Rivara

    Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of two collections of poetry, Lake Effect (Aldrich Press, 2013) and Animal Bride (Tinderbox Editions, Fall 2018). Her work has appeared in Blackbird, RHINO, cream city review, 32 Poems, Split Lip Magazine, Superstition Review, Dunes Review and many other places. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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  • Luke Hankins
    My Griefs to Sing

    Luke Hankins is the author of a collection of poems, Weak Devotions, and a collection of essays, The Work of Creation. A volume of his translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems, was released by Seagull Books in 2018

  • Kathy Fagan

    Kathy Fagan’s latest collection isSycamore/em>(Milkweed Editions, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the Director of Creative Writing and the MFA Program at The Ohio State University.

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  • Oliver Baez Bendorf

    Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Advantages of Being Evergreen (forthcoming Fall 2019), winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Book Poetry Competition, and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State, 2015). He teaches at Kalamazoo College.