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July 25, 2016

Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990. At the age of nine he immigrated to the United States. Zamora is a Breadloaf scholarship recipient and holds […]

July 11, 2016

Neil Mathison

Neil Mathison’s short story “The Cannery” won the 2013 Fiction Attic Short Story Contest and has just been published in Modern Shorts: 18 Short Stories from Fiction Attic Press. An […]

July 1, 2016

KR Podcast with Maggie Smith

This is a special edition of the Kenyon Review Podcast. One that we thought you might like to hear as quickly as possible. Maggie Smith was at Kenyon recently as […]

June 27, 2016

Matthew Olzmann

Matthew Olzmann is the author of two poetry collections: Mezzanines (Alice James Books, 2013) and Contradictions in the Design (forthcoming from Alice James in November.) He is the 2015–16 Kenan […]

June 13, 2016

Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke has published eight collections of poetry. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2011 for Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon). She teaches at the […]

May 30, 2016

Melissa Ginsburg

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost (Four Way Books, 2013) and the noir novel Sunset City, forthcoming from Ecco Books this year. Her poems […]

May 16, 2016

Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), and To See the Earth (2008). A two-time recipient of the NEA and the Arab American […]

May 2, 2016

Gregory Spatz

Gregory Spatz’s most recent book publications are the novel Inukshuk and short story collection Half as Happy. Recent awards include a 2012 NEA Fellowship in Literature and a Washington State […]

April 29, 2016

KR Podcast with Daniel Torday

In this month’s podcast, Daniel Torday, award-winning novelist (The Flight of Poxl West) and former KR book review editor, talks with consulting editor Andy Grace about the line between fiction […]

April 18, 2016

Gökçenur Ç.

Gökçenur Ç. was born in Istanbul in 1971. He has six poetry books and has translated selected poetry books of Wallace Stevens, Paul Auster, and Ursula K. Le Guin. He […]

April 4, 2016

Eleanor Stanford

Eleanor Stanford’s latest book is Bartram’s Garden (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2015). She is a 2014–15 Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, where she is researching and writing about traditional midwifery. An excerpt […]