Author: ciotola

  • 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…

  • Jonathan Vatner

    Jonathan Vatner is the author of the novel Carnegie Hill, debuting in August 2019 from Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press. His stories have been published in Confrontation, The Rag, The Westchester Review, the Best Gay Stories anthology, and other journals. His journalism can be found in numerous publications including Poets & Writers, The New York Times, and O, the Oprah…

  • Jenny Xie

    Jenny Xie is a writer based in Oakland, California. Her work has appeared in journals like AGNI, Ninth Letter, and The Offing, and has won awards from Devil’s Lake, Narrative Magazine, Joyland, and the Best of the Net Anthology. She’s received a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Aspen Words. She is…

  • Jane Huffman

    Jane Huffman has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, where she is currently an instructor for the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, a literary journal. Twitter @janechuffman

  • Justin Danzy

    Justin Danzy is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis where he is completing his MFA. He has work forthcoming in Guesthouse and The New Guard Review. Danzy is from Southfield, Michigan.

  • West Branch 88, Fall 2018

    West Branch 88, Fall 2018

    Christopher J. Adamson, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Daniel Borzutzky, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, René Char, Chen Chen, Duo Yu, Chekwube O. Danladi, Adam O. Davis, Kathy Fagan, Luke Hankins, Joel … Read the rest

  • Welcome to the River: Queerness & Lineage

    A special feature by David Winter, 2016-18 Stadler Associate Editor, with poetry and commentary from Oliver Baez Bendorf, Chen Chen, Kathy Fagan, Carl Phillips, and Rickey Laurentiis.

  • West Branch 88, Fall 2018: Digital Issue

    West Branch 88, Fall 2018: Digital Issue

    Cover art: Marigold Hotel, by Megan St. Clair, 2017, mixed media on wood panel 12” x 18” Fiction Intro by Guest Editor Matt Bell Sarah Norek A Whale, a … Read the rest

  • Kirsten Ihns

    Kirsten Ihns is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a Ph.D. student and Neubauer Presidential Fellow at the University of Chicago,where she studies texts that seem to want to be images. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Yalobusha Review, Sonora Review, The…

  • Rickey Laurentiis

    Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Lambda Literary Award.