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

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September 2, 2011

Melinda Moustakis

Melinda Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and raised in Bakersfield, California. She received her MA from UC Davis and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan […]

September 1, 2011

Mathias Svalina

Mathias Svalina is the author of one book of poetry, Destruction Myth (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010) and one novel, I am a Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press, […]

June 3, 2011

Bruce Beasley

Bruce Beasley is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Signs and Abominations (Wesleyan), Lord Brain (winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award), and […]

June 2, 2011

Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello is the author of Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, New Republic, North American Review, and […]

June 1, 2011

Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson’s most recent novel is The Signal (Viking). He directs the graduate program in fiction at the University of California-Irvine. His story, “Esther Donnally,” appears in the Summer 2011 […]

March 30, 2011

Robert Yune

A Conversation with Robert Yune by KR fiction editor Geeta Kothari Transcript Robert Yune was born in South Korea. He teaches at Chatham University’s MFA program (Pittsburgh campus and low-residency). […]

March 8, 2011

Rebecca Wadlinger

Rebecca Wadlinger is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston, where she works as the managing editor of Gulf Coast. She has recently received […]

March 7, 2011

Daniel Poppick

Daniel Poppick lives in Iowa City, where he is a student in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, New American Writing, and Thermos. You […]

March 6, 2011

Andrew Hudgins

Andrew Hudgins is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and Shut Up, You’re Fine: Instructive Poetry for […]

March 5, 2011

Katherine Larson

Katherine Larson’s first collection, Radial Symmetry, was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets and will be published in April 2011 by […]

March 4, 2011

Alexei Bayer

Alexei Bayer was born in Moscow and lives in New York. His short stories have appeared in New England Review and Readings/Chtenia, among other journals. A collection titled Eurotrash was […]

March 3, 2011

Seth Fried

Seth Fried’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Missouri Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology: Best of the Small Presses, One Story, Tin House, and many others. His debut short story collection, […]