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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.
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Kate Wyer
Excerpts from Girl, Cow, MonkKate Wyer’s work is forthcoming inEgress and has been featured in The Collagist, Necessary Fiction, Unsaid, PANK and other journals. Her novel, Black Krim , was a finalist for the Debut-Litzer from Late Night Library. Wyer was also a finalist for the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction contest. She is the director of a nonprofit that serves…
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West Branch 87, Spring/Summer 2018: Digital Issue
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Review by Will Schutt
The Stuff of Legend: On D. Nurkse, Sina Queyras, and Nicole SealeyWill Schutt is the author of Westerly (Yale University Press, 2013) and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti (Oberlin College Press, fall 2018).
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Margaret Ronda
Margaret Ronda is the author of two poetry books: Personification (2010), which won the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and the forthcoming For Hunger (Saturnalia Books, 2018), as well as a critical study, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End (Stanford UP, 2018). She teaches American poetry and environmental literature and theory at the University of…
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Cara Blue Adams
Above the GroundCara Blue Adams’s stories appear widely. She is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, judged by Alice Hoffman, and the Missouri Review Peden Prize. Other awards include fellowships and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the former…
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Sehrish Ranjha
Mr. NoSehrish Ranjha studied Literature and Photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She lives and writes in Lahore, Pakistan. “Mr. No” is her first published story.
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Review by Kylan Rice
The lateral radical: On Jorie GrahamKylan Rice has an MFA from Colorado State University, and he is working on his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some of his poems can be found at Kenyon Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere. His book reviews have been published by Colorado Review, West Branch, Carolina Quarterly and the…
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An Interview with Nathan Oates
Nathan Oates’s collection of stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. His stories have been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories (2008 & 2012), The 75th Anniversary Issue of The Antioch Review, Forty Stories, and elsewhere.
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West Branch 87, Spring/Summer 2018: Print Issue
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