ISSUES | Contributing Authors

Daniel Anderson has published three books of poetry, The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel, Drunk in Sunlight, and January Rain. His work has appeared in Harper’s, the New Republic,…    read more

Jennifer Bryan has an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, Fifth Wednesday Journal, the Madison Review, Flyway, Santa Clara Review and the New Ohio Review. She…    read more

Ron Tanner has published stories and essays in such journals as the Iowa Review, New Letters and the Massachusetts Review. His awards for writing include a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society gold medal, a…    read more

Ernest Finney’s short fiction has received a number of awards, among them an O. Henry Awards first prize for “Peacocks.” His books include four novels, Winterchill, Lady with the Alligator…    read more

Candice Baxter has published work in The Commercial Appeal and Memphis Parent and placed third in Rembrandt’s Story of Your Life Contest. She is the marketing director for The Pinch and is a second-year MFA student…    read more

Scott Coffel, a native New Yorker, lives in Iowa City with his wife and son. He directs the Hanson Center for Technical Communication in the University of Iowa’s College of…    read more

Trevor Gore was born in Nashville but quickly got the traveling bug and has lived in places as diverse as Scotland and Honduras. He is currently at the University of…    read more

Reese Okyong Kwon’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Epoch, Mississippi Review, Narrative and Gigantic. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Norman Mailer…    read more

Patrick Lane is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Missouri–Columbia, where he also serves as the Web editor of the Missouri Review. His work has appeared in Ninth…    read more

Brendan Galvin is the author of thirteen collections of poems. His recent books are The Strenght of a Named Thing (1999) and Sky and Island Light (1997), both from Louisiana…    read more