ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Tsung-yan Kwong’s short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, New Letters, CutBank, ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. He earned his BA from Stanford University. In 2008 he graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with…    read more

Nathan Oates’s collection of stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. His stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. His…    read more

Lania Knight’s first book, Three Cubic Feet, was selected as a finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award in Debut Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published or are…    read more

Patrick Hicks is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010). His work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Glimmer Train,…    read more

Christina Hutchins’s work appears in Alehouse, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, the Southern Review and Women’s Review of Books. She has received two Barbara Deming…    read more

Michael Piafsky is an assistant professor and director of the writing program at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. He has conducted multiple interviews for the Missouri Review — including those…    read more

Jerald Walker attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an assistant professor of English at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. “The Mechanics of Being” is from a collection of…    read more

May-lee Chai’s latest collection of short stories, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, is forthcoming in fall 2018 from Blair. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Asian/Pacific American Award…    read more

David Wagoner was born in eastern Ohio, grew up between Gary and Chicago and has lived in or near Seattle since 1954. He is now a professor of English emeritus…    read more

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home (Scribner, 2010) and the short story collection Music Through the Floor (Scribner, 2005), which was a finalist for the New York…    read more