Copper Nickel (29)

Issue 29 includes fiction by Berlin Prize winner and NEA Fellow V.V. Ganeshananthan, as well as relative newcomers Kimberly Garza, Maria Kuznetsova, Sam Simas, and Jennifer Wortman. Nonfiction by Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses contributor Paul Crenshaw and experimental lyric prose writer Debra Di Blasi. Poetry by Roethke Memorial Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow David Baker, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Martha Collins, Rome Prize winner Mark Halliday, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Janice N. Harrington, Jake Adam York Prize winner Brooke Matson, NEA Fellows Kaveh Bassiri and Matt Morton, Cité Internationale des Arts Fellow Jacques J. Rancourt, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner Natasha Sajé, as well as Jan Beatty, TR Brady, Jenna Le, Samantha Lê, John A. Nieves, Roy White, and many others. Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Galician writer Xavier Queipo, translated by Jacob Rogers; and poetry by Catalan poet Gemma Gorga, translated by Sharon Dolin; Chinese dissident poet Shen Haobo, translated by Liang Yuing; and Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry. The cover features work by Denver-based artist Michael Gadlin, who was educated at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and whose work has been shown all over Denver, as well as in New York City and France. Gadlin is represented by K Contemporary Gallery in Denver.

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of four collections, including Post- and The City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and prose editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth) and Joanna Luloff (author of The Beach at Galle Road and Remind Me Again What Happened). Since the journal's relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been listed as "notable" in the Best American Essays. Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEA and the MacArtuhur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations. Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.