Indiana Review
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Indiana Review is a small, student-run literary magazine
Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 at Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000.

A biannual review, IR publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews. IR is funded mainly by subscriptions, contests, grants, and partially by university support.

Works by contributors to IR have been awarded the Pushcart Prize and reprinted in The Pushcart Prize Anthology: Best of the Small Presses, as well as in the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, and Best New American Voices. In addition, Indiana Review is recognized as one of the top 50 fiction markets by Writer’s Digest and in 1996 was selected as the first place winner of the American Literary Magazine Award.

Past contributors include: Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel
-Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University...

, Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
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, Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek
-Personal life:Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959...

, Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie
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, Gary Soto
Gary Soto
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, Philip Levine
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, Peter Selgin
Peter Selgin
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, Lucia Perillo
Lucia Perillo
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, Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath
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, Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes
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, Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco
-Life:He immigrated with his Cuban exile family to Miami where he was raised and educated.He graduated from Florida International University in Civil Engineering and Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing , where he studied with Campbell McGrath....

, Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo
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, Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady
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, Marilyn Chin
Marilyn Chin
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, Jim Elledge, Martin Espada
Martín Espada
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, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Ha Jin
Ha Jin
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, David Kirby
David Kirby
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, Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok
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, Reginald Shepherd
Reginald Shepherd
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, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
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, Leslie St. John, Patrick Rosal, and Chitra Divakaruni.
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