''The Iowa Review'' is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews.

History and profile

Founded in 1970, ''Iowa Review'' is issued three times a year, during the months of April, August, and December. Originally, it was released on a quarterly basis. This frequency of publication lasted until its fourteenth year. It is published at

The University of Iowa The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offer ...

Iowa City Iowa City is the largest city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. At the time of the 2020 census the population was 74,828, making it the state's fifth-most populous city. The Iowa City metropolitan area, which enc ...

. According to former editor David Hamilton, ''The Iowa Review'' has a circulation of about 3,000, of which 1,000-1,500 are distributed to major bookstore chains. The reading period for unsolicited submissions occurs between August and October in fiction and poetry and August and November in nonfiction, whereas contest submissions for the Iowa Review Awards are read in January. In addition to space dedicated in the December issue to the Iowa Review Awards winners, the magazine has recently featured work from The University of Iowa's biannual ''NonfictioNow'' conference and from writers in The University of Iowa's

International Writing Program The International Writing Program (IWP) is a writing residency for international artists in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Since 2014, the program offers online courses to many writers and poets around the world. Since its inception in 1967, the I ...

. Several of these pieces are selected each year for awards and anthologies: recent selections include Susan Perabo's short story "Shelter" (39.1) for ''The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses'', 2011 edition, Eula Biss's essay "Time and Distance Overcome" (38.1) and Carolyne Wright's poem "This dream the world is having about itself..." (38.2) for ''The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses'', 2010 edition; Patricia Hampl's essay "The Dark Art of Description" (38.1), selected by Mary Oliver for ''The Best American Essays 2009''; and Stephen Dunn's "Where He Found Himself" (36.2), in ''Best American Poetry 2007''.

Masthead

As of Spring 2023: *Editor: Lynne Nugent *Managing editor: Katie Berta *Fiction editor: Noor Qasim *Nonfiction editor: Dylan McGonigle *Poetry editor: Jen Frantz *Editorial Consultant: Darius Stewart *Type composition: Pocket Knife Press *Fulfillment manager: Corey Campbell *Interns: Callan Latham, Sydney Gabrielle Mayes, Victor Resendiz, Quinlan Stafford *Editorial board: Aron Aji, Charles D'Ambrosio,

Melissa Febos Melissa Febos is an American writer and professor. She is the author of the memoirs ''Whip Smart'' (2010) and ''The Dry Season'' (2025) and the essay collections ''Abandon Me'' (2017), ''Girlhood'' (2021), and ''Body Work'' (2022). Early life and ...

, Lois Geist, Loren Glass, Allison Means, Christopher Merrill, Roland Racevskis, Lisa Schlesinger, Jan Weissmiller *Editor emeritus: David Hamilton

Distinguished past contributors

* Jacob Appel, 38.3 *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

: 6.1, 12.1 *

John Barth John Simmons Barth (; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include '' The Sot-Weed Facto ...

: 24.2 * Jo Ann Beard: 25.2 *

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

: 4.3 *

Marvin Bell Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Early life and education Bell was raised in Center Moriches on Long Island. He served in the ...

: 2.3, 6.3/4, 7.4, 11.2/3, 12.1, 14.3, 19.3, 23.3, 26.2, 28.2, 30.2, 34.3, 36.3 *

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

: 7.4, 11.2/3 *

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

: 8.3, 22.3 *

Marianne Boruch Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.) and a memoir about a hitchhiking trip t ...

: 10.4, 13.3/4, 17.2, 17.3, 20.1, 22.1, 23.2, 25.1, 25.3, 26.2, 29.3, 33.2, 37.3 *

T. Coraghessan Boyle Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, ' ...

: 11.4, 14.1 *

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...

: 9.4 *

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major Postmodern literature, postmodern author who influen ...

: 3.2 * Frederick Busch: 9.1, 16.2, 18.2 *

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...

: 2.4 *

Anne Carson Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across ...

: 25.2, 26.2, 27.2 *

Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, '' Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?'', in 1976. His breakout collection, '' What We Talk About ...

: 3.2, 3.4, 9.1, 10.3 * Jane Cooper: 20.2 *

Robert Coover Robert Lowell Coover (February 4, 1932 – October 5, 2024) was an American novelist, Short story, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation ...

: 1.1, 1.4, 6.3/4, 10.3, 24.2, 35.2 * Robert Dana: 26.1, 26.2, 28.2, 32.2, 34.3, 37.1, 38.1 *

Guy Davenport Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...

: 6.1 *

Mark Doty Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence ...

: 14.3 *

Norman Dubie Norman Dubie (April 10, 1945--February 20, 2023) was an American poet from Barre, Vermont. Life He was the author of twenty-eight collections of poetry. Dubie's work often assumes historical personae and has been included in ''The New Yorker'', ' ...

: 4.4 * James Galvin: 9.1, 10.2, 15.1, 24.1 *

William Gass William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven vol ...

: 7.1, 24.2, 38.1 *

Reginald Gibbons Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, and literary critic. He is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. Gibbons has published numerous books, including 11 ...

: 8.4, 15.1 *

Sean Gill Sean Gill is an American writer and film editor. Education Gill is a graduate of Oberlin College and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. He studied privately with Juan Luis Buñuel. Television Gill's television work includes editing episode ...

: 47.3 *

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...

: 2.4, 4.4, 7.4 *

Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mar ...

: 22.3, 24.1, 25.2, 27.2, 29.1, 30.3, 34.2, 39.1 *

Jorie Graham Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at H ...

: 10.2, 11.2/3, 12.2/3, 26.2 *

Donald Hall Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and inc ...

: 3.3, 7.4, 13.3/4, 16.2, 18.1, 20.1, 22.3, 26.1, 30.2, 34.2 *

Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

: 26.3 *

Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2003 with the exception of the 2015-2016 academic year when he taught at Purdue as a full-t ...

: 26.3, 38.2, 32.1, 33.3, 35.3, 37.3 *

Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...

: 9.3 *

Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, ''Jesus' Son (short story collection), Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most succes ...

: 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 5.4, 6.3/4, 8.3, 13.2 *

Donald Justice Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of creative writing who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. Early life and education Justice was born on August 12, 1925, in Miami. He attended the ...

: 1.1, 2.1, 13.3/4, 15.2 *

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 28, 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, Massac ...

: 5.2 *

Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted t ...

: 15.1 * Philip Levine: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 9.2, 15.1 *

Yiyun Li Yiyun Li (Chinese: 李翊雲 - ''Li Yiyun'') (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor who has lived and worked in the United States since entering graduate school. She writes exclusively in English. Her short stories and no ...

: 34.2 *

Ben Marcus Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The ...

: 24.2 *

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of the ...

: 8.4 * James Alan McPherson: 6.2, 23.3, 27.2 *Jane Mead: 21.3, 29.1, 33.3 * W.S. Merwin: 1.2, 1.4, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 14.3, 15.2, 17.1 *Nami Mun: 34.2 *

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels ''Black ...

: 2.2, 6.1, 9.3, 13.2, 14.3, 17.1 * Chris Offutt: 33.1, 41.3 *

Eric Pankey Eric Pankey (born 1959 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American poet and artist. He is married to the poet Jennifer Atkinson (born 1955). Pankey's poetry has moved from the literal and narrative as in _Heartwood,_ towards the suggestiveness of ...

: 17.3, 19.2, 21.3, 25.3, 27.2, 29.2, 32.3, 34.1, 36.2, 38.1 *

Ann Patchett Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel ''Bel Canto (novel), Bel Canto''. Patchett's othe ...

: 18.2 *Raymond R. Patterson: 6.2 *

Stanley Plumly Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program. Biography Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio in a working class family with a farmla ...

: 8.1, 11.2/3, 20.3 *

Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his Satire, satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known wor ...

: 6.2 *

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 th ...

: 22.1 *

Pattiann Rogers Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry. Life Pattiann Rogers is an American poet ...

: 14.3, 17.2, 23.1, 25.1, 26.2, 29.1, 39.1 *

Matthew Rohrer Matthew Rohrer (born 1970) is an American poet. He is the author of ten books of poetry. Early life and education Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. Rohrer has said that he was a diligent student who finished his work qu ...

: 25.1, 26.2, 27.2, 28.3, 32.1, 34.2, 37.3 * Mary Ruefle: 18.3, 38.1 *

Tomaž Šalamun Tomaž Šalamun (July 4, 1941 – December 27, 2014) was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central EuropeColm Tóibín (2004The comet's trail The Guardian, Guardian and an internationally acclaimed Absu ...

: 34.1, 38.2 * David Shapiro: 10.1 *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of ''The Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for '' The W ...

: 1.4, 5.4, 9.2, 15.1, 32.2 * Floyd Skloot: 29.1 *

Gary Soto Gary Anthony Soto (born April 12, 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Life and career Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel (1910–1957) and Angie Soto (1924-). In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaqu ...

: 25.1, 25.2 *

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, India ...

: 9.2, 11.2/3, 11.4, 15.1, 19.2, 26.2, 35.2 *

Cole Swensen Cole Swensen (born 1955, in Kentfield, California) is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor. Swensen was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and is the author of more than ten poetry collections and as many translations ...

: 32.1, 42.3 * James Tate: 1.4, 4.4, 13.3/4, 20.2, 24.3, 26.2, 30.3 *

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

: 35.3 *

Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awa ...

: 6.2 *

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel ''Infinite Jest'', which ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine ...

: 24.2, 24.3 *

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His '' Spring and All'' (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's '' The Waste Land'' (1922). ...

: 9.3 * Charles Wright: 1.3, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1, 11.2/3, 26.2, 34.3 *

Al Young Albert James Young (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books includ ...

: 6.2 * Dean Young: 17.2, 29.2

Iowa Review Awards

Each year, beginning with 2003 (33.3), the magazine presents the Iowa Review Award to contest winners in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. Outside judges name the winners, who each receive $1,500 and are published, along with some finalists, in the magazine's December issue. Recent winners include Rochelle Goldstein Bay (Nonfiction, 2023), Eliza Gilbert (Poetry, 2023), and Gracie Newman (Fiction, 2023).

Past judges

*2003-

, fiction;

, nonfiction;

Marilyn Chin Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American poet, writer, activist, and feminist, as well as an editor and Professor of English. She is well-represented in major canonical anthologies and textbooks and her work is taught all over the ...

, poetry *2004- Mary Helen Stefaniak, fiction;

Lewis Hyde Lewis Hyde (born 1945) is a scholar, essayist, translator, cultural critic and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property. Early life and education Hyde was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He ...

, nonfiction;

, poetry *2005- Chris Offutt, fiction; Patricia Foster, nonfiction;

Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book AwardJames Alan McPherson, fiction;

Lia Purpura Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (''King Baby'', ''Stone Sky Lifting'', ''The Brighter the Veil'', ''It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful'' ...

, nonfiction;

, poetry *2007-

, fiction;

Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate (born November 16, 1943) is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. Early life Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BA degree from Columbia University in 1964 and rec ...

, nonfiction;

, poetry *2008-

Ethan Canin Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while his parents were vacatio ...

, fiction; Abigail Thomas, nonfiction;

Heather McHugh Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an American poet notable for ''Dangers'', ''To the Quick'', ''Eyeshot'' and ''Muddy Matterhorn.'' McHugh was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in the US and a Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada, and was elected ...

, poetry *2009-

, fiction;

John D'Agata John D'Agata (born 1975) is an American essayist. He is the author or editor of six books of nonfiction, including ''The Next American Essay'' (2003), ''The Lost Origins of the Essay'' (2009) and ''The Making of the American Essay''—all part of ...

, nonfiction;

, poetry *2010-

Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in th ...

, fiction; Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction;

Brenda Hillman Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator. She is the author of ten collections of poetry: ''White Dress'', ''Fortress'', ''Death Tractates'', ''Bright Existence'', ''Loose Sugar'', ''Cascadia'', ' ...

, poetry *2011-

Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'' and '' Local Souls'', is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. Biography Gurgan ...

, fiction; Patricia Hampl, nonfiction;

Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine (; born September 4, 1963) is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays. Her book of poetry, '' Citizen: An A ...

, poetry *2012- Ron Currie Jr., fiction;

Meghan Daum Meghan Elizabeth Daum (born February 13, 1970) is an American author, essayist, podcaster, and journalist. Childhood and education Daum was born in California, and grew up in Austin, Texas, and Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's ...

, nonfiction; Timothy Donnelly, poetry *2013-

ZZ Packer Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book ''Drinking Coffee El ...

, fiction;

Susan Orlean Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of '' The Orchid Thief'' and '' The Library Book''. She has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1992, and has contributed artic ...

, nonfiction;

Mary Jo Bang Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946, in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet. Life Bang grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's and Master's in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Centra ...

, poetry *2014-

Rachel Kushner Rachel Kushner (born October 7, 1968) is an American writer, known for her novels '' Telex from Cuba'' (2008), '' The Flamethrowers'' (2013), '' The Mars Room'' (2018), and ''Creation Lake'' (2024). Early life Kushner was born in Eugene, Oregon, ...

, fiction;

David Shields David Shields is an American author who has published twenty-four books, including '' Reality Hunger'' (which, in 2019, ''Lit Hub'' named one of the most important books of the past decade), ''The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead' ...

, nonfiction; Robyn Schiff, poetry *2015- Kevin Brockmeier, fiction;

Wayne Koestenbaum Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958) is an American artist, poet, and cultural critic. He received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 2020. He has published over 20 books to date. Koestenbaum works as a Distinguished Profess ...

, nonfiction; Srikanth Reddy, poetry *2016-

Kelly Link Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) is an American editor and writer. Mainly known as an author of short stories, she published her first novel, ''The Book of Love'' in 2024. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many ...

, fiction;

Eula Biss Eula Biss (born 1977) is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books. Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the ...

, nonfiction;

Brenda Shaughnessy Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an Asian American poet most known for her poetry books ''Our Andromeda'' and ''So Much Synth''. Her book, ''Our Andromeda'', was named a Library Journal "Book of the Year," one of '' The New York Times's'' "100 Be ...

, poetry *2017- Amelia Gray, fiction; Charles D'Ambrosio, nonfiction; Joyelle McSweeney, poetry *2018-

Alexander Chee Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' ...

, fiction;

Kiese Laymon Kiese Laymon (born August 15, 1974, in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American writer. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. He is the author of three full-length books: a novel, ''Long Division'' (2013), and two m ...

, nonfiction;

Elizabeth Willis Elizabeth Willis (born April 28, 1961, Bahrain) is an American poet and literary critic. She currently serves as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Willis has won several awards for her poetry including the National Poetry Serie ...

, poetry *2019-

Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for writing '' The Great Believers'' (2018) and '' I Have Some Questions for You'' (2023), which have been positively received by critics and ...

, fiction;

Roxane Gay Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of ''The New York Times'' best-selling essay collection ''Bad Feminist'' (2014), as well as the short story collection ''Ayiti ...

, nonfiction; Kiki Petrosino, poetry *2020- Lan Samantha Chang, fiction; Leslie Jamison, nonfiction;

Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt (formerly published as Stephen Burt) is a literary critic and poet who is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. ''The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry cr ...

, poetry *2021-

Jamel Brinkley Jamel Brinkley is an American writer. His debut story collection, ''A Lucky Man'' (2018), was the winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. It was also a finalist for the National Boo ...

, fiction;

, nonfiction; Tracie Morris, poetry *2022-

Louisa Hall Louisa Warren Hall (born June 24, 1982) is an American novelist and poet. She has a Ph.D in literature from University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught literature and creative writing. Education and early life Hall grew up outside Phi ...

, fiction; Inara Verzemnieks, nonfiction; Donika Kelly, poetry *2023- Brandon Taylor, fiction; Sarah Minor, nonfiction; Lauren Haldeman, poetry

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