The Alaska Quarterly Review
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The Alaska Quarterly Review is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage
. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief. Deemed by the Washington Post "Book World" as "one of the nation's best literary magazines," a number of works originally published in Alaska Quarterly Review have been subsequently selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays
, The Best American Poetry
, The Best American Mystery Stories
, The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading
, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Beacon Best, and The Pushcart Prize
: The Best of the Small Presses.
Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Pulitzer Prize
winner Jane Smiley
, Pushcart Prize
winner Ira Sadoff
and PEN/Hemingway Award recipient Jennifer Haigh
. More recent contributors of note include Peter Selgin
, Aryn Kyle
, Karen Brown
, Bonnie Jo Campbell
, Matt Clark
, Darrin Doyle
, Alicia Gifford, Ann Harleman, Christien Gholson
, Alison Baker, Jacob M. Appel
, John Gamel, Mary Stewart Atwell, Kirstin Allio, Henri Cole
, United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin, Lorraine M. Lopez, and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum. Contributing editors include former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins
, Olena Kalytiak Davis
, Stuart Dischell
, Stuart Dybek
, Nancy Eimers
, Patricia Hampl
, Amy Hempel
(the most recent guest editor), Jane Hirshfield
, Dorianne Laux
, Pulitzer Prize
winner Maxine Kumin
, Dan O'Brien
, Pattiann Rogers
, Michael Ryan
, and Peggy Shumaker.
University of Alaska Anchorage
The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest school of the University of Alaska System, with about 16,500 students, about 14,000 of whom attend classes at Goose Lake, its main campus in Anchorage....
. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief. Deemed by the Washington Post "Book World" as "one of the nation's best literary magazines," a number of works originally published in Alaska Quarterly Review have been subsequently selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays
The Best American Essays
The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 1986 and is now part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin...
, The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
, The Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Mystery Stories
The Best American Mystery Stories is a yearly anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies. It was started in 1997 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin...
, The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Nonrequired Reading is a yearly anthology of fiction and nonfiction selected annually by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan...
, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Beacon Best, and The Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
: The Best of the Small Presses.
Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winner Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the...
, Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
winner Ira Sadoff
Ira Sadoff
Ira Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. from the University of...
and PEN/Hemingway Award recipient Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer.She was born in Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvania coal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers'...
. More recent contributors of note include Peter Selgin
Peter Selgin
Peter Selgin is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is currently the at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.-Biography:...
, Aryn Kyle
Aryn Kyle
Aryn Kyle is an American novelist and short story writer.-Life:Kyle was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado...
, Karen Brown
Karen Brown
Karen Maree Brown captained the Australia national women's cricket team in a One Day International. She was born in 1962 in Upfield, Victoria and played 9 Test matches in all, scoring 132 runs as a right-handed batswoman and taking 22 wickets at just 15.72 with her right arm medium pace...
, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:Campbell attended Comstock High School , and received an B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative...
, Matt Clark
Matt Clark (writer)
Matt Clark was a prolific short story writer and also the author of the novel, Hook Man Speaks. He held an MFA from Louisiana State University, and while a graduate student there, he was a fiction editor of the New Delta Review...
, Darrin Doyle
Darrin Doyle
Darrin Doyle is an American writer and college professor. Doyle graduated from Western Michigan University with an MFA , and the University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D. in comparative literature...
, Alicia Gifford, Ann Harleman, Christien Gholson
Christien Gholson
Christien Gholson is an American born writer and the author of one book of poetry, On the Side of the Crow. Gholson grew up in the navy and moved around quite a bit. He attended Naropa University and University of California at Davis...
, Alison Baker, Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
, John Gamel, Mary Stewart Atwell, Kirstin Allio, Henri Cole
Henri Cole
Henri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...
, United States Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin, Lorraine M. Lopez, and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum. Contributing editors include former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis is an American poet.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities . Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize...
, Stuart Dischell
Stuart Dischell
Stuart Dischell is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. He is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review....
, 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...
, Nancy Eimers
Nancy Eimers
-Life:She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University...
, Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.-Life:Hampl was...
, Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.-Life:Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois...
(the most recent guest editor), Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...
, Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...
, Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winner Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:...
, Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien (playwright)
Dan O’Brien is an American playwright whose plays include The Body of an American, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, Moving Picture, Key West, "Will You Please Shut Up?", and The Disappearance of Daniel Hand...
, Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers is an American poet who has published 11 books and received numerous awards, grants and fellowships.She was born in Joplin, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1961...
, Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan
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, and Peggy Shumaker.