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

Michael Cohen is professor emeritus of English at Murray State University. He is an essayist who divides his time between western Kentucky and Tucson, Arizona. [2009]

Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem &…    read more

Michael McGriff is the author of the poetry collections Choke and Dismantling the Hills. The latter is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is also the translator of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow…    read more

Benjamin S. Grossberg’s books are Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009). A chapbook,The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, was published by Kent State…    read more

Burt Kimmelman has published six collections of poetry—As if Free (Talisman House, 2009) the latest—and a number of literary-critical books and essays, as well as a brief memoir of his…    read more

In a career that spanned the first four decades of the 20th century, Zane Grey wrote what would eventually be–after they were all published–an astounding eighty-nine books, with over 130…    read more