Issue 8

Issue 8 Fall 2011

Many thanks to the s[r] staff who created this issue.

Issue front list

Art

Michael Velliquette is a mixed media artist who makes dimensionally complex paper sculptures and drawings. Velliquette is represented in New York by DCKT Contemporary and in Texas by the David Shelton Gallery.

Events

Mary Sojourner

Mary Sojourner has written the novel Sisters of the Dream; short story collection, Delicate; essays Bonelight: ruin and grace in the New Southwest; memoir/essays Solace: rituals of loss and desire. She is writing a book on women and compulsive gambling for Seal Press and is co-writing with a man who has befriended a wounded eagle.

Fiction

William J. Cobb

William J. Cobb is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, and many others.

Interviews

Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University, and the Balcones Poetry Prize.

Nonfiction

Lee Martin

Lee Martin is the author of fourteen books, including The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and, most recently, The Glassmaker’s Wife. He is the winner of the Mary McCarth

Poetry

Dorianne Laux

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Dorianne Laux's fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.