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
Nick Lantz
Editor
Nick Lantz is the author of four books of poetry: We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (Graywolf Press), The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (University of Wisconsin Press), How to Dance as the Roof Caves In (Graywolf Press), and You, Beast (University of Wisconsin Press). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and Pleiades, among others. 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 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 directs the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing at Sam Houston State University.
Ginger Ko
Poetry Editor
Ginger Ko is the author of Motherlover (Bloof Books) and Inherit (Sidebrow), as well as several chapbooks. Her next project, a book as interactive app, is forthcoming from The Operating System. Her poetry and essays can be found in Critical Quarterly, 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.
Katie Jean Shinkle
Nonfiction Editor
Katie Jean Shinkle is the author three books and five chapbooks, most recently: Ruination (Spuyten Duyvil), The Arson People (Dzanc Books rEprint), and Rat Queen (forthcoming). Other prose, poetry, and criticisms can be found in Flaunt Magazine, The Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at Sam Houston State University.
Amanda Nowlin
Advising Editor
Amanda Nowlin is a prose writer whose work has appeared in Callaloo, Vandal, the anthology Literary Cash, and The Dallas Morning News, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Houston’s PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing where she was nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. Amanda received her MFA in creative writing from New York 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