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Shara Lessley
February 6, 2017

Shara Lessley

Shara Lessley, a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale (New Issues, 2012). Her awards include the Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, the Diane Middlebrook […]

February 4, 2017

KR Podcast with John Koethe

In this episode, John Koethe, award-winning author of four books of poetry including The Swimmer (2016), talks with Editor at Large Andrew Grace about balancing a dual career as poet […]

Joshua Bennett
January 23, 2017

Joshua Bennett

Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016), a National Poetry Series selection. He holds a PhD in English from Princeton University, and an MA in […]

Eve Gleichman
January 9, 2017

Eve Gleichman

Eve Gleichman is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program. She is the associate fiction editor at Guernica magazine and is currently working on her first book of stories. She […]

January 5, 2017

KR Podcast with Josh Bell

In this episode, Editor at Large Natalie Shapero talks with poet Josh Bell about rock star energy, being anxious in New York, and the difficulty of publicizing your book when […]

Laura Walter
December 19, 2016

Laura Maylene Walter

Laura Maylene Walter is the author of the short story collection Living Arrangements (BkMk Press, 2011), and her writing has appeared in the Sun, Poets & Writers, and various literary […]

Hilary Mantel
December 5, 2016

KR Podcast with Hilary Mantel

In this episode, O. Henry Prize winner and Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn talks with Hilary Mantel, twice the winner of the Man Booker Prize, about the way historical […]

Nathan Poole
December 5, 2016

Nathan Poole

Nathan Poole is the author of two books of fiction, Father Brother Keeper, a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for the 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and long-listed for […]

Dan Beachy-Quick
November 21, 2016

Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and occasional novelist, whose most recent books include gentlessness (Tupelo Press) and Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs (Omnidawn). His work has been […]

November 7, 2016

Annie Kim

Annie Kim’s first poetry collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and will be published this month by the University of Southern Indiana. Kim’s poems appear in […]

October 27, 2016

KR Podcast with Stephanie Danler

In this episode, Stephanie Danler, author of best-selling novel Sweetbitter, talks to P.F. Kluge about her writing workshop at Kenyon, whether or not to read your book’s reviews, and how […]

October 27, 2016

Clare Rossini

Clare Rossini’s most recent book, Lingo, was published by the University of Akron Press. She is currently completing a collection that includes poems about science, technology, and climate change. She […]