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.

Natalie Staples: Editor-in-Chief
S. Tremaine Nelson: Executive Editor
Samantha DeWys, Billie Arséndiga, and Em Villaverde: Production & Design Directors
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, Meakin Armstrong, and Amelie Voutilainen: 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; Matthew Kasper; 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

Poetry and “more” since 1957.

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