Author: ciotola

  • 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…

  • 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.