Publishing the frontier of American letters 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, will be published in the 2022 Best American Poetry Series.

For updates about Northwest Review’s publication schedule, follow @NW_Review on Twitter and @NWReview on Instagram.

S. Tremaine Nelson: Editor & Publisher
Brian Michael Murphy: Executive Editor
Verena Raban & Debbra Palmer: Managing Editors
Verena Raban: Art Editor
Samantha DeWys: Production & Design Director
Jesse Lee Kercheval: Editor of Translation
Natalie Staples: Poetry Editor
Dawn Raffel: Fiction Editor
Clare Maloney: Editor of Interviews
Meakin Armstrong: Editor at Large
Alexis Sears: Editor at Large
Logan McMillen, Leslie Hinson & Atina Hartunian: Assistant Fiction Editors
Rachel Jacobson: Editor of Reviews
Kate Wylie: Eulogies, Elegies, Obituaries & Obsequies
Associate Editors: Marley Badolati; Anna Ball; Jordan Griffin; Atina Hartunian; Leslie Hinson; Annabel Jankovic; Matthew Kasper; Rose Lambert-Sluder; Ariel Machell; Maxwell Putnam; Lana Sain; Rita Tiwari; Nikole Young; Jeanne Yu
Advisory Editors: Nicky Gonzalez; Major Jackson; Scott Korb; Michael McGriff; Jay McInerney; Kelsey Motes-Conners; Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Emeritus Editor: John Witte

Publishing the frontier of American letters since 1957

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