''Tin House'' is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in

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, and New York City.

History

Portland publisher

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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

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. 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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. ''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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, and in 2006, "Window" by

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was a "juror favorite" in '' The O. Henry Prize Stories''. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years, in order to focus on their book releases and workshops. The magazine was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue. In March 2025, Tin House Books was acquired by

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Content

''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 It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices".

Staff

* Publisher and Editor-in-Chief:

* 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:

* Associate Editor: Thomas Ross * Poetry Editor: Camille T. Dungy * 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 Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experi ...

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...

Dorothy Allison Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won a number o ...

Steve Almond Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist, and author of fifteen books, four of which are self-published. Life Steve Almond was born on October 27, 1966, in California. Almond was raised in Palo Alto, Ca ...

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai (; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israelis, Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew language, Hebrew in modern times. Yehuda Amichai, the poet of everyday life, love, ...

Rebecca Aronson Rebecca Aronson is an American poet. She worked as an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) located in Maryville, Missouri, until 2008, when she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Author Aronson is the autho ...

Tom Barbash Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. Speaker, panelist, and interviewer Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan ...

* 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 American Jews, Jewish family, Bender received her un ...

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (born February 14, 1972) is an American writer, of Chinese descent. She previously taught writing and literature in the graduate MFA writing program at Otis College of Art and Design until 2015. She lives in Los Angeles, Cali ...

Lucy Corin Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023 and a National Endowment for the Arts cr ...

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 s ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz Chaudhry Faiz Ahmad Faiz (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time, and his works and ideas r ...

Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. Ford's first collection of short stories, ''Rock Springs (short stories), Rock Springs ...

* William Gay *

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 ...

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 ...

Ann Hood Ann Hood (born December 9, 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer; she has also written nonfiction. The author of fourteen novels, four memoirs, a short story collection, a ten book series for middle readers and one young adult nov ...

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, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art. She wrote, di ...

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

James Kelman James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working class narrators and their ...

* William Keohane *

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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 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 ...

* Kelly Le Fave *

Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His Debut novel, first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, ...

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 ...

Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood (born April 27, 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include ''Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'', a 2014 ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Later prose works ...

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 1 ...

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro ( ; ; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles. Munro's ...

Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda ( ; ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old an ...

Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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

* 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 th ...

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 honor ...

Edward W. Said Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies.R ...

James Salter James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air F ...

* John Sanford *

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 ...

Donna Tartt Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist. She wrote the novels '' The Secret History'' (1992), '' The Little Friend'' (2002), and ''The Goldfinch'' (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into ...

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 musi ...

Danielle Trussoni Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and wrote the "Dark Matters" column for the ''New York Times Book Review'' for five ...

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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

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. "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 ''Us Conductors'' is a debut novel by Canadian writer Sean Michaels. Published in 2014 by Random House in Canada and Tin House in the United States, the novel is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin (also known as Le ...

'' (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 Broo ...

, 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, Literary genre, genres and Theme (narrative), th ...

'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). Jan Elizabeth Watson
Tin House Catalog.

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History

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