Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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March 23, 2015

Randy Fertel

Randy Fertel, PhD, has taught at Harvard, Tulane, the University of New Orleans, and the New School for Social Research. A contributor to NPR, Huffington Post, the Smithsonian, and Creative […]

March 16, 2015

Daniel Torday

This interview was conducted by Hilary Plum, Book Review Editor for Kenyon Review. Some summer evening we were walking back from the Kokosing River toward Kenyon College—we were teaching, or […]

March 2, 2015

Rolf Yngve

Rolf Yngve is a former captain in the US Navy whose stories were first published and anthologized in the 1970’s. Best credit: Best American Short Stories, 1979. More recent work […]

February 16, 2015

Chana Bloch

Chana Bloch’s Swimming in the Rain: New and Selected Poems will be published in 2015. The author of four collections of poetry, she is cotranslator of the Song of Songs […]

February 2, 2015

John Koethe

John Koethe’s most recent book is ROTC Kills. His previous book, Ninety-Fifth Street, received the Lenore Marshall Award. An excerpt from his poem “La Durée” can be found here. The […]

January 21, 2015

Lee Upton

Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books including, most recently, The Tao of Humiliation: Stories (Spring 2014) and Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy. […]

December 22, 2014

Michael Capel

Michael Capel received his MFA from Boise State University. His work has appeared in Baltimore Review, Barnstorm, and South Dakota Review. He lives in Boise with his partner, fiction writer […]

December 9, 2014

Frank Fucile

Frank Fucile is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the College of William and Mary. His dissertation is on photography and environments of war. His story “Slow and Steady” […]

November 24, 2014

Amy Victoria Blakemore

Amy Victoria Blakemore is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, where she received an Academy of American Poetry Prize. Her writing appears in Susquehanna Review and Cleaver Magazine. She […]

November 10, 2014

Harold Schweizer

Harold Schweizer is professor of English at Bucknell University. His volume of poems, The Book of Stones and Angels, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His most recent book is On […]

November 2, 2014

KR Podcast with Ann Patchett

In this episode, novelist Ann Patchett, author of numerous novels including the award-willing Bel Canto, is interviewed by Associate Editor Natalie Shapero. Click here to listen on iTunes