The Greensboro Review

Edited by Terry L. Kennedy, UNC Greensboro

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Frequency: Spring and Fall

Latest Issue: Number 114: Fall 2023

Size: 6 x 9

Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 0017-4084

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For more than fifty years, the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro has published The Greensboro Review. The journal began in 1966, when students in the first years of the MFA wanted a place to publish their creative work. With $500 from the Chancellor—“an amount that hardly covered the cost of printing 500 copies,” according to Robert Watson, poet and co-founder of the MFA program—students and faculty used the campus duplicating shop to print the debut issue, then collated it by hand. Greensboro painter Betty Watson designed the logo that is still in use today.

The mission of the journal quickly shifted from “a house organ for our MFA students,” and the Review began to publish writers like Ezra Pound and Joyce Carol Oates. But as longtime editor Jim Clark described, “the GR has always taken the most joy in publishing work by new writers at the beginning of their careers, and we are proud to include in this group such writers as Lewis Nordan, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Matthews, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, and Dave Smith.” In 1984, the GR established its Literary Awards thanks to an anonymous donor, and these prizes led to a more global following. Works from the journal are consistently included in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, and other collections honoring the finest writing by both established and emerging voices.

Today, the GR continues to be faculty- and student-run, and our editors regularly showcase writers whose work may be risk-taking or overlooked. The Greensboro Review is a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.

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Editor

Terry L. Kennedy

Associate Editor

Jessie Van Rheenen

Managing Editor

Aaron Bergman Jackson

Fiction Editor

Emily Mathis

Poetry Editor

M.M. Porter

Associate Fiction Editor

Kiana Govoni

Associate Poetry Editor

Mary Sims

Editorial Assistant

Nellie Hildebrandt

Editorial Board

Xhenet Aliu, Stuart Dischell, Holly Goddard Jones, Derek Palacio, Emilia Phillips

Consulting Senior Editors

Fred Chappell, Julie Funderburk, Lee Zacharias

Table of Contents

Number 114, Fall 2023

Editor’s Note, Terry L. Kennedy

Fiction

Expedition, Mike Nees

To Ready the House for Extinction, AG Latham

The Crickets of Hawaii, Nalea J. Ko

Grudge Person, Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Goblin, Robert Stone

The Light, Amanda K. Horn

Men with Guns, Ania Mroczek

Worship, Beth Konkoski

Bodies of Water, Bruce Parsons

Poetry

Pile of Maggots, Madeleine Poole

Amazing Gray, Jeffrey H. MacLachlan

Spangle, John A. Nieves

Threshold Days, Chelsea Querner

Summer Drought, Elizabeth Sylvia

Wolves in the House, James Ciano

Undeliverable, Rachel Richardson

Anatomy Lesson, Allison Field Bell

My Father Eats an Orange, Robert Carr

Monaco Drive, Gardner Dorton

Northeastern Tracks, Stacie Cassarino

Credo, Chard deNiord

A Letter from My Grandmother to Me, Mimi Yang

Middle of the Story, Michael Meyerhofer

Extra Life, Arielle Hebert

Linea Restis, Corinne Dekkers

The Nature of Nature, John Hoppenthaler

Some Nights the Entire Gravel Driveway, Alice White

Spawn, Robert Evory

Cruelty, Jackie Chicalese

Curvature, Lloyd Wallace

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