ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Elise Juska is the author of three novels, including One for Sorrow, Two for Joy(Simon & Schuster). Her short stories have appeared in the Hudson Review, Harvard Review, Salmagundi,the Seattle Review, Black Warrior…    read more

Giulio Mozzi was born in 1960 and lives in Padua, Italy. His Questo é il giardino (This is the Garden), which includes the story “Claw,” received great critical acclaim when it was…    read more

Brian Swann has published many books; the latest two, both in 2018, are Sunday out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press) and Not the Real Marilyn Monroe (MadHat…    read more

A. R. Rea’s stories and essays have appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXV, the Kenyon Review, the Iowa Review, the Sun, Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, New South and Wazee. Her work has been awarded fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center…    read more

Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, will be published by Knopf in 2010. Her debut novel, Torch, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. Strayed’s personal essays have appeared in more than a dozen…    read more

Carl Adamshick has published poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, American Literary Review, Rhino and Mid-American Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon. [2008]

Jude Nutter’s first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame) won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and…    read more

Devin Murphy’s work has appeared in the Greensboro Review, The MacGuffin, PANK, and Many Mountains Moving, among other journals and anthologies. He is currently a creative writing PhD student at the University…    read more

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time was published in 2014 by The Waywiser Press. Her Nostos, (Ohio University Press, 2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize…    read more

Connie Oehring has had poetry, fiction, and reviews published in a number of magazines.