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 five collections, including We the Jury and Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happened and the story collection The Beach at Galle Road)--along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth), Alexander Lumans (whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere), and Christopher Merkner (author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic).
Since the journal's relaunch in 2015,
work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, Best Literary Translations, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has often been listed as
"notable" in the Best American Essays. According to Clifford Garstang's US literary journal rankings,
Copper Nickel is
ranked number 10 for poetry and
number 34 for fiction, out of
more than 700 regularly publishing literary journals.
Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the
Nobel Prize; 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; 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
MacArthur,
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
Accelerate 360.
Issue 37 Includes: - Poetry Translation Folios with work by
Ukrainian poet Alex Averbuch, translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky;
Russian poet Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel; and
Italian fiction writer Elena Varvello, translated by Jennifer Panek. -
A feature of poems by
three South American poets--
Claudia Magliano from Uruguay,
Eliana Hernández Pachón from Colombia, and
Úrsula Starke from Chile--
edited by Jesse Lee Kercheval and featuring a Q&A with both the poets and the translators.
- New Poetry by International Latino Book Award-winner
William Archila; NEA Fellows
Michael Bazzett and
Amy Beeder; Lambda Literary Award-winner
Benjamin S. Grossberg; Kate Tufts Discovery Award-finalist
Julie Hanson; Grolier Prize-winner
John Hodgen; four-time Pushcart Prize-winner
Mark Irwin; Jake Adam York Prize-winners
Yalie Saweda Kamara and
Christopher Brean Murray; Audre Lorde Award-winners
Meg Day and
Maureen Seaton; relative newcomers
Mansi Dahal,
Christine Kwon,
Weijia Pan,
Patrick Wilcox,
Alison Zheng; and many others. -
New Fiction by Stephanie Carpenter, Becky Hagenston, Jacqueline Kolosov, and Luke Rolfes/
- New Essays by TS Eliot Award-winner and National Book Critics Circle Finalist Sinéad Morrissey and Anne P. Beatty.
- Cover Art by New York-based Native-American "photo-weaving" artist,
Sarah Sense.
Contributor LocationsContributors to issue 37 come from
all over the country and the world.
U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:
Denver, CO (home of
Copper Nickel and the
Copper Nickel staff; contributors Andrew Hemmert andMaureen Seaton)
Los Angeles, CA (contributors William Archila, Mark Irwin, and Michael Mark; contributing editorsVictoria Chang, Piotr Florczyk, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Chris Santiago)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Mair Allen and MichaelBazzett; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)
Houston, TX (contributors Ayokunle Falomo, Christopher Brean Murray, and Weijia Pan;contributing editor Kevin Prufer)
New York, NY (contributors Mansi Dahal, Eliana Herández Pachón, and Tyler Mills)
Chicago, IL (contributors Oksana Maksymchuk and Michael Robins; contributing editor RobertArchambeau)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributor Alison Zheng; contributing editor Randall Mann)
Kansas City, MO (contributor Patrick Wilcox; contributing editor Robert Long Foreman)
Greensboro, NC (contributor Anne P. Beatty; contributing editor Emilia Phillips)
Dallas, TX (contributor Mag Gabbert; contributing editor Tarfia Faizullah)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
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