Author: ciotola

  • 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.

  • Carl Phillips

    Carl Phillips’s most recent book of poems is Wild Is the Wind(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018).

  • 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.