Category: The Authors

Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University and Iowa’s Poet Laureate.  Her work explores the relation...

Daniel Menaker, former fiction editor at The New Yorker and Editor in Chief of Random House has twice won the  O. Henry award for short stories and is the&...

Leslie Carol Roberts’ work as an author explores the materiality of ecologies through the lens of the personal essay. Her books include Here Is Where I Walk: Ep...

Betsy Johnson lives in Minnesota, and her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Columbia Poetry Review.

Lisa Norris is a professor of English at Central Washington University where she has taught since 2007. Previously, she was an instructor for 15 years at Virgin...

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Conce...

Lawrence Coates is the author of five books, most recently the novella Camp Olvido.  His work has been recognized with the Western States Book Award in Fic...

Gary Fincke’s latest collection is The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories (West Virginia, 2017). An earlier collection Sorry I Worried You won th...

Spencer Fleury is the author of How I’m Spending My Afterlife. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ascent, Big Muddy, Permafrost, Blunderbuss, Word...

In addition to his six novels, K.C. Frederick has published many stories, most recently in The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review On-Line and Ninth Letter.  He...