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MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…] […]

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Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…]

Author photo of Torrey Peters over the cover of their book, Detransition, Baby laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

Identity to Affinity: A Conversation with Torrey Peters

Torrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, published by One World, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has

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Torrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, published by One World, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has

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Ananda Lima on Books she is looking forward to in 2024

Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying

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Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying

Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:1 | Winter 2024

T Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) and Vantage (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Their work can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. Their essay “Sturgeon” was selected for the 2018 Booth Nonfiction Prize. She lives

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T Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) and Vantage (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Their work can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. Their essay “Sturgeon” was selected for the 2018 Booth Nonfiction Prize. She lives

Author photo of Rumaan Alam over the cover of his book, Leave the World Behind, laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

In the Apocalypse, I hope to Die Immediately: An Interview with Rumaan Alam

There aren’t many books that I remember reading as clearly as I remember Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind. It was 2020, and I was looking for escape. This book offers that—the writing propulsive, the pace breathless, so much so that I kept sneaking away from my remote job during the day to keep reading

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There aren’t many books that I remember reading as clearly as I remember Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind. It was 2020, and I was looking for escape. This book offers that—the writing propulsive, the pace breathless, so much so that I kept sneaking away from my remote job during the day to keep reading

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