Poetry and “more” since 1957.
Northwest Review was first published by the University of Oregon in 1957. The inaugural issue sold for fifty cents and included Oregonian Ken Kesey’s first publication, a short story called “The First Sunday in September.” In its fifty-four year history, the University of Oregon’s Northwest Review published multiple winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Since its new inception in Fall 2020, Northwest Review contributors have been Pushcart nominees, Best American Short Story winners, New York Times bestsellers, longlisted for the National Book Awards, the Pen Faulkner Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and recipients of Stegner Fellowships in poetry and fiction. Alexis Sears’ poem “Hair Sestina,” which appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of Northwest Review, was included in the 2022 Best American Poetry Series.
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- S. Tremaine Nelson
- Executive Editor
- Verena Raban
- Art Editor
- Natalie Callahan
- Assistant Art Editor
- Dawn Raffel
- Fiction Editor
- Atina Hartunian, Leslie Hinson, and Lisa Clay Shanahan
- Assistant Fiction Editors
- Annabel Jankovic
- Nonfiction Editor
- Natalie Staples
- Poetry Editor
- Debbra Palmer
- Assistant Poetry Editor
- Rachel Jacobson
- Editor of Reviews
- Whitney Washington
- Assistant Reviews Editor
- Alexis Sears and Meakin Armstrong
- Editors at Large
- Jordan Griffin
- Director of Publicity
- Kate Wylie
- Editor of Obituaries
- Associate Editors
- Marley Badolati
- Anna Ball
- Rowan Freiberg
- Jackson Gambee
- John Haman
- Rose Lambert-Sluder
- Ariel Machell
- Maxwell Putnam
- Lana Sain
- Austin Thornton
- Rita Tiwari
- Katie Todd
- Jeanne Yu
- Advisory Editors
- Nicky Gonzalez
- Major Jackson
- Scott Korb
- Michael McGriff
- Jay McInerney
- Kelsey Motes-Conners
- Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
- Emeritus Editor
- John Witte