HISTORY & MISSION
Housed at Sam Houston State University, the Texas Review has been publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for four decades. The Texas Review partners with Texas Review Press and SHSU's MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing to publish one issue per year.
Past contributors include Hadara Bar-Nadav, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Nicky Beer, Madison Smartt Bell, Kai Carlson-Wee, Angie Cruz, B.H. Fairchild, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tony Hoagland, Carolyn Kizer, Ted Kooser, Wayne Miller, Rajiv Mohabir, Matthew Olzmann, Benjamin Percy, Kevin Prufer, Amy Silverberg, Analicia Sotelo, Virgil Suarez, Ann Townsend, and Jake Adam York.
The Texas Review seeks to publish writing that expresses language and life as a part of a constantly evolving world. Our editorial practices are committed to being in community with underrepresented voices and art, and we welcome submissions by writers and artists from the margins.
MASTHEAD
Ginger Ko
Editor
Ginger Ko is the author of Motherlover (Bloof Books), Inherit (Sidebrow), and several chapbooks. Her latest project is POWER ON, a book as interactive app, produced by The Operating System. Her poetry and essays can be found in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, The Offing, VIDA Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University.
Scott Kaukonen
Fiction Editor
Scott Kaukonen is the author of the collection of stories Ordination, which won the Ohio State Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by the Ohio State University Press. The collection includes the story “Punnett’s Squares,” winner of the Nelson Algren Prize from the Chicago Tribune. He’s a past recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he’s also received an AWP/Prague Summer Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Barrelhouse, Normal School, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University.
Katie Jean Shinkle
Creative Nonfiction/Essays Editor
Katie Jean Shinkle is the author five books and eight chapbooks, most recently: Tannery Bay (co-authored with Steven Dunn, FC2, 2024), None of This is an Invitation (co-authored with Jessica Alexander, Astrophil Press at the University of South Dakota, 2023), and Thick City (Bull City Press, 2023). Other prose, poetry, and criticisms can be found in or is forthcoming from Flaunt Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Georgia Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at Sam Houston State University.
Britt R. Bustos
Associate Editor
Britt R. Bustos (she/they) is a poet, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist. They are currently a poetry candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University, where she also teaches English. They work as an Associate Editor for the Texas Review and formerly at Texas Review Press as an Editing and Publishing Fellow. Her works have appeared in Atticus Review’s online publication, The Attic.
Elizabeth Soto
Associate Editor
Elizabeth Soto is a prose writer whose work has appeared in Dollar Store Mag. She has read for DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press. She will receive her MFA from Sam Houston State University in May 2024.
Aline Doolittle
Assistant Editor
Aline Doolittle is currently working on a novel within the speculative fiction genre. She is an Assistant Editor at the Texas Review and an Editorial Fellow at Texas Review Press. While a student at Texas A&M University, she worked collaboratively on research and publication of continued student excellence and peer mentorship. She will receive her MFA from Sam Houston State University in May 2025.
Nick Lantz
Copyeditor and Designer
Nick Lantz is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The End of Everything and Everything that Comes After That (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He directs the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University.
Contributing Editors
Cara Blue Adams, Olivia Clare, Angie Cruz, Joshua Edwards, Carmen Giménez Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, TC Tolbert, Candace G. Wiley, and Lynn Xu