Copper Nickel issue 34

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is editedby poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Jury andPost-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo’sZodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happened and thestory collection The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of VanishingActs, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and TheDiminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth), AlexanderLumans (whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere), and Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the ScandamericanDomestic). Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected forinclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the PushcartPrize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays. Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the NobelPrize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; 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; theLenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; theAlice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEAand the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, andJerome Foundations. Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally tobookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.