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Cimarron Review

Publisher’s Description: Since 1967, Cimarron Review has published authors such as Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, Rick Moody, Robert Olen Butler, Jonathan Ames, Mark Doty, Diane Wakoski, Tess Gallagher, Richard Shelton, Mark Halliday, Rick Bass, Pam Houston, Paul Muldoon, Willam Stafford and many others.

Writers Digest has included us in its top fifty places to publish fiction in America, and Esquire has called Cimarron "one of America's literary roots." Weston Cutter of NewPages.com states of Cimarron Review that “in the best possible way, this magazine is like the Volvo of lit mags.” At present, National Book Award Winner Ai is on the masthead.

The Cimarron Review is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and regularly nominates work for notable contests such as The Pushcart Prize and The O. Henry Prize series. The magazine is published four times a year out of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK.

Recent issues:

Issue 169, Fall 2009, begins with Lucy Wang's riveting Chinese brush painting cover art, followed by poetry from Miho Nonaka, Lucy Biederman, Bruce Cohen, Margo Berdeshevsky, Rigoberto González, Annie Finch, George Looney, Dore Kiesselbach, Tyler Caroline Mills, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Ed Bok Lee, Melissa Stein, and more; gritty non-fiction from Jay McKeen; provocative fiction from Laura Hulthén Thomas, Steinur Bell and Mark Brazaitis.

Issue 168, Summer 2009, presents an eclectic array of exciting and distinctive voices in the contemporary poetry community, such as Judith Sorenberger, Jim Daniels, Sonia Manzano (translated by Alexis Levitin), Carl Auerbach, Maya Jewell Zeller, Liz Robbins, and many more. Our fiction is provocative as always; this time, we feature work by Rachel Swearingen, David Galef, and Steve Street. Exceptional non-fiction from David Romtvedt and Allyn West; and our stunning cover comes from painter and Chinese Localization Artist, Lei Liang who has exhibited prominently in China, Taiwan, the UK, etc. Visit his work at www.LeiLiang.com.

Issue 167, Spring 2009, features provocative new poetry from Sandra McPherson, David Hernandez, Janice N. Harrington, Lynnell Edwards, and Lesley Wheeler among others; exciting new fiction from Matt Baker, Vanessa Blakeslee, Jane Bradley, and Michael Hawley; hauntingly superb non-fiction from Jasmin Darznik.