Category: Features

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • An Interview with Sara Quinn Rivara

    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.

  • An Interview with Nathan Oates

    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.

  • 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.

  • The Horse Is Always Running

    The Horse Is Always Running

    Monica Sok, 2016-17 Stadler Associate Editor featuring selections from Diana Marie Delgado, Hayan Charara, Hafizah Geter, Mai Der Vang and Jayson P. Smith.

  • Guest Feature: Roxane Gay

    Guest Feature: Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.