Our Contributors, Knocking It Out of the Park

We’ve heard some good news this spring about our contributors!

Joshua Weiner (Issues 2.2 and 9.1) won a Guggenheim fellowship. You can read his commentary on the poem “Outrageous Fortune” here.

Jessica Hollander (Issue 8.1) won the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Her book, In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place, will be published by UNT Press in 2014. Katherine Dunn was the judge.

Dawn Lonsinger (Issue 5.2) won the 2012 Idaho Prize for Poetry for her book Whelm, which will be published by Lost Horse Press. (The judge for that contest was Nance Van Winckel, whose poems appeared in issues 6.2 and 8.2, and her art in 9.2.)

Christopher Merkner’s story “Last Cottage” appeared in Issue 7.1, as well as in Best American Mystery Stories 2011—and now it will appear in his first collection of stories, The Rise and Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic, available in January 2014 from Coffee House Press. Here’s our appreciation of the story.

We’re honored to have published these writers’ work!