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

Daniel Donaghy is the author of two poetry collections: Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas Press, 2009) and Streetfighting (BkMk Press, 2005), which was a Paterson Prize Finalist. He is currently working on…    read more

Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and pop culture critic who has published books of nonfiction, including Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Killing Yourself to Live; and Chuck Klosterman IV. He also…    read more

Amos Magliocco lives in Denton, Texas, where he taught creative writing at the University of North Texas. His fiction has appeared in Oxford Magazine, Iron Horse Review and Southwestern AmericanLiterature. His weather-related nonfiction has…    read more

Shara Lessley is a former Stegner Fellow. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative…    read more

Eaton Hamilton (they go by “Hamilton”) is the disabled, queer, and trans/non-binary author of ten books of cnf, memoir, fiction, and poetry, including the 2016 novel Weekend, and two prior…    read more

Julia Wendell’s first collection of poems, An Otherwise Perfect History, was published in 1988 by Ithaca Press. [1996]