The Sonora Review is a biannual graduate student-run literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 that was established in the fall of 1980. Sonora Review publishes fiction

Fiction

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, non-fiction, and poetry

Poetry

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, as well as interviews, book review

Book review

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s, and art. Each issue is produced by graduate student volunteers in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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. Former staff members include Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.-Life and education:Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas....

, Robert Boswell, Richard Russo

Richard Russo

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, Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland

Anthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...

, and David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...

. Work originally printed in the Sonora Review has appeared in Best of the West

Best of the West

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and Best American Poetry, and has won O. Henry Award

O. Henry Award

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s and Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

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s. The editors-in-chief are Lewis DeJong and Nancy Powaga.