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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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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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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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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).
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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…
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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.
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Matt Bell: Guest Editor’s Note
Matt Bell is the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall , among other titles. A native of Michigan, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State…
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An Interview with Sara Quinn Rivara
Sara Quinn Rivara is the author of two collections of poetry, Lake Effect (Aldrich Press, 2013) and Animal Bride (Tinderbox Editions, Fall 2018). Her work has appeared in Blackbird, RHINO, cream city review, 32 Poems, Split Lip Magazine, Superstition Review, Dunes Review and many other places. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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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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Guest Editor’s Note
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize) and Rocket Fantastic. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and co-curates the digital maker’s space Voluble.
A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews