''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in

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, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell. In 2005, ''Tin House'' expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at

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. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years to focus on their book releases and workshops. ''Tin House'' published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of writing greats. It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices". ''Tin House'' was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by

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, was featured in ''

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'' for 2004, and in 2006, "Window" by

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was a "juror favorite" in '' The O. Henry Prize Stories''. The magazine was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue.

Staff

* Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Win McCormack * Editor: Rob Spillman * Art Director: Diane Chonette * Deputy Publisher: Holly Macarthur * Managing Editor: Cheston Knapp * Executive Editor: Michelle Wildgen * Senior Editor: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky * Editor-at-Large: Elissa Schappell * Associate Editor: Thomas Ross * Poetry Editor:

Camille T. Dungy Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an American poet and professor. Career Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA. She is the author of four ...

* Senior Designer
Jakob Vala
* Paris Editor: Heather Hartley * Copy Editors: Meg Storey and Jess Kibler

Writers whose work has appeared in ''Tin House''

* Chris Adrian *

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...

Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of a ...

Steve Almond Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published. Life Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and receive ...

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai ( he, יהודה עמיחי; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times. Amichai was awarded the 1957 Shlonsky Prize, the ...

* Rebecca Aronson * Tom Barbash * Charles Baxter *

Aimee Bender Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate de ...

* Sarah Shun-lien Bynum * Lucy Corin *

Ariel Dorfman Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Out ...

Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel ''The Sportswriter'' and its sequels, ''Independence Day'', ''The Lay of the Land'' and ''Let Me Be Frank With You'', and the ...

* William Gay * Allan Gurganus *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

* Ann Hood *

Bret Anthony Johnston Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author. He wrote the novel ''Remember Me Like This'' and the story collection, ''Corpus Christi: Stories''. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, ''Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creat ...

Miranda July Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger; February 15, 1974) is an American film director, screenwriter, singer, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art. She w ...

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal a ...

James Kelman James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His novel '' A Disaffection'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won ...

* Stephen King *

Phil Klay Phil Klay (; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, '' Redeployment''. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under ...

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massach ...

* Kelly Le Fave * Jonathan Lethem *

Kelly Link Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of sci ...

Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood (born 27 April 1982) is an United States poetry, American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her 2021 debut novel, ''No One Is Talking About This,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her 2017 memoir ''Priestdaddy'' won the Thurber Prize f ...

Rick Moody Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel ''The Ice Storm'', a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 19 ...

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...

* Pablo Neruda *

Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 12, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Dawn Powell Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh sati ...

* Peter Rock *

Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and t ...

Karen Russell Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, ''Swamplandia!'', was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2009 the National Book Foundation named Russell a 5 under 35 honore ...

Edward W. Said Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White ...

* James Salter * John Sanford *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn' ...

Donna Tartt Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist. Early life Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her fa ...

Quincy Troupe Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (born July 22, 1939) is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. He is best known as the biographer of Miles Davis, the jazz music ...

* Danielle Trussoni *

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...

Tin House Books

Staff

* Senior Editor: Masie Cochran * Senior Editor: Tony Perez * Assistant Editor: Elizabeth DeMeo * Director of Marketing & Rights: Nanci McCloskey * Director of Publicity: Molly Templeton * Publicity and Marketing Assistant: Yashwina Canter * Art Director: Diane Chonette * Senior Designer
Jakob Vala
* Designer: Jeremy Cruz

Books published

* ''Best of Tin House'' (2006). * ''Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House'' (2007). * ''Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast'' (2006). * ''The World Within'' (2007). * Arnold-Ratliff, Katie. ''Bright Before Us'' (2011). * Becker, Geoffrey. ''Hot Springs'' (2010). * Beha, Christopher. ''What Happened to Sophie Wilder'' (2012). 978-1935639312 * Bogan, Louis, trans. and ed. ''The Journal of

Jules Renard Pierre-Jules Renard (; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works '' Poil de carotte'' (Carrot Top, 1894) and ''Les Histoires Naturelles'' (Nature Stories, 1896). Among ...

'' (2008). * Boren, Karen Lee. ''Girls in Peril'' (2006). * Braver, Adam. "November 22, 1963" (2008). * Corin, Lucy. ''The Entire Predicament'' (2007). * DeVoto, Bernard. ''The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto'' (2010). * Erens, Pamela. ''

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'' (2013). * Fasenfest, Harriet. ''A Householder's Guide to the Universe'' (2010). * Freed, Dolly. ''Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money'' (2010). * Fuller, Claire. ''Our Endless Numbered Days'' (2015). * Goldfaden, Josh. ''Human Resources'' (2006). * Grimes, Tom. ''Mentor: A Memoir'' (2010). * Hallman, J. C. ed. ''The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature'' (2009). * Harvey, Matthea, illustrated by Zechel, Elizabeth. ''The Little General and The Giant Snowflake'' (2009). * Heyns, Michiel, introduction by A. L. Kennedy. "The Children's Day" (2009). * Hirvonen, Elina. "When I Forgot" (2009). * Hunt, Samantha. "The Seas" (2018). * Krusoe, Jim. "Erased." (2009) * Krusoe, Jim. ''Girl Factory'' (2008). * Lawrence, Sarahlee. ''River House'' (2007). * Lemon, Alex. ''Mosquito'' (2006). * Matheson, Michele. ''Saving Angelfish'' (2006). * McCormack, Win. ''You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values'' (2008). * Michaels, Sean. '' Us Conductors'' (2014). * Montgomery, Lee and Tony Perez, eds. "The Writer's Notebook" (2009). * Morris, Keith Lee. ''Call It What You Want'' (2010). * Morris, Keith Lee. ''The Dart League King'' (2008). * Nevai, Lucia. ''Salvation'' (2008). * Otis, Mary. ''Yes, Yes Cherries'' (2007) * Parker, Jeff, Mikhail Iossel, eds.

Francine Prose Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center. Life and career Born in Brookl ...

, intro. "Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia" (2009). * Parker, Jeff. ''Ovenman'' (2007). * Pashley, Jennifer. ''The Scamp'' (2015). * Pico, Tommy. ''Nature Poem'' (2017). * Shaughnessy, Brenda and C. J. Evans, eds. "Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House" (2008). * Smith, Robert Paul, illustrated by Smith, Elinor Goulding. ''How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself'' (2010). * Smith, Zak. ''Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of

Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, scie ...

's Novel

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'' (2006). * Smith, Zak. "We Did Porn" (2009). * Sparling, Scott. ''Wire to Wire'' (2011). * Specktor, Matthew. ''American Dream Machine'' (2012). 978-1935639442 * Taylor, Kimball. ''The Coyote's Bicycle'' (2016). * van Niekerk, Marlene. ''Agaat'' (2010). * Vanasco, Jeanie. ''The Glass Eye'' (2017). * Watson, Jan Elizabeth. "Asta in the Wings" (2009). Tin House Catalog
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