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 fourth book of poetry, Letters to Anyone, is forthcoming from Antiphony. Her poetry and essays can be found in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She 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.
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.
Editors Emeritus
Elizabeth Soto, Britt R. Bustos, Aline Doolittle, Megan van Rensburg
Contributing Editors
Cara Blue Adams, Olivia Clare, Angie Cruz, Joshua Edwards, Carmen Giménez Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, Scott Kaukonen, TC Tolbert, Candace G. Wiley, and Lynn Xu