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Introduction by Brian Teare
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.
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Corey Van Landingham
The Anti-Phenomenal: Three New BooksCorey Van Landingham, a contributing editor, is the author of Antidote and the recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Cincinnati and a book review editor for Kenyon Review.
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From The Editor: June 2019
Dear Friends, Readers, and Submitters: Thank you for supporting West Branch this year! We’ve now completed our reading for the year—and responded to every single submission in our queue. For … Read the rest
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Freedom Neither Public nor Private: A Conversation
Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016); and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). Zach Savich is the author of six books of poetry, including Daybed (2018) and two books of prose, including Diving Makes the Water Deep (2016).
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Nathan McClain
Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), a recipient of fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writer’ Conference, and a graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers.
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Garth Greenwell: Guest Editor’s Note
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming.
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West Branch 90, Spring/Summer 2019
Stephanie Cawley, Ginger Eager, Gina Franco, Logan Fry, Julian Gewirtz, Marosa di Giorgio, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Carolyn Hembree, Rosanna Henderson, Joshua Kalscheur, Ilya Kaminsky, Alex Mouw, Hilary Plum, Jeannine Pitas, … Read the rest
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Heather Jeong
Heather Jeong is a software engineer based in New York City. This is her first published story.
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An Interview with Rage Hezekiah
Rage Hezekiah is the author of Stray Harbor, recently released by Finishing Line Press. She is a Cave Canem and MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College.
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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.
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