The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the

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. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site. Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba". In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

Carol Gilligan Carol Gilligan (; born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships. Gilligan is a professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York Uni ...

, David M. Halperin,

Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, Strange loop, strange ...

Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962. Kingston has written three ...

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

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 ...

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Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stu ...

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

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and

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and fiction by Sergio Troncoso, Elizabeth Gaffney,

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, Alice Mattison, Garth Greenwell, Peter Mountford, Kalisha Buckhanon, Eileen Pollack,

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, Douglas Trevor, Steve Amick, Corinne Demas, Lauren Belfer, and Jacob Appel.

Awards and recognition

The magazine's contents are often reprinted in prize anthologies, textbooks, magazines such as ''

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'' and the ''

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''. ''

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'' series frequently reprints poems that originally appeared in ''Michigan Quarterly Review''. The magazine won the ''Utne Reader'' Award for "Writing Excellence" in 2001.

Lawrence Foundation Prize

Since 1978, the $2,000 Lawrence Prize in fiction is awarded annually to the best story published in MQR that year. Past winners include Charles Baxter,

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, Susan Dodd,

Clark Blaise Clark Blaise, OC (born April 10, 1940) is a Canadian-American author. He was a professor of creative writing at York University, and a writer of short fiction. In 2010, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Early life and education ...

Sena Jeter Naslund Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, 1942) is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, ''Ahab's Wife'', and her 2003 novel, ''Four Spirits'', were each named a ''New York Times'' Not ...

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, Alice Mattison, and

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. The prize is sponsored by University of Michigan alumnus and writer Leonard S. Bernstein, a trustee of the Lawrence Foundation of New York. *Past judges and winners: *2010–Shimon Tanaka, winner ("Destruction Bay") *2011– Steve Amick, winner ("In Casimir’s Shoes") *2012–

, winner ("Cross") *2013–Cody Peace Adams, winner ("Victory Chimes") *2014–Courtney Sender, winner (“We Can Practice Starts”) *2015–Alyson Hagy, winner ("Switchback") *2016–Ruchama King Feuerman, winner ("Kill Fonzie) *2017–Polly Rosenwaike, judge; Hananah Zaheer, winner (“In the Days of Old Things”) *2018– Michael Byers, judge; Elizabeth Gaffney, winner ("Six-X") *2019– Laura Kasischke, judge;

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 ...

, winner ("Dignity and Urgency in Edinburgh and London") *2020– Lillian Li, judge; Aya Osuga A., winner ("Kappa") *2021–Urvi Khumbat, judge; Naomi Shuyama-Gómez, winner ("The Commander's Teeth")

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Awards and recognition

Lawrence Foundation Prize

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