Iron Horse Literary Review

Patterson’s prose has recently appeared in Colorado Review, Texas Monthly, Image, Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, and other journals. Her awards include two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies, a Texas Commission on the Arts fellowship in nonfiction, and grants from the Brown and Plum Foundations. In 1999, she founded Iron Horse Literary Review, and she serves as copy editor for the journal Creative Nonfiction. From 2003-2007, she directed the San Juan Writers Workshops in Ouray, Colorado. Today, she has a growing interest in social justice literature and serves as the case storyteller for the West Texas Regional Public Defenders office, where she specializes in both state and federal capital murder cases.

Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; two other novels, River of Heaven and Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know; and two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones. His next novel, Break the Skin, is forthcoming soon. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Story, DoubleTake, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and many others. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.

Covington is the author of two novels and three nonfiction books, including Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Georgia Review, Redbook, the Oxford American, and other periodicals, and his work has been widely anthologized in the U.S. and translated into eight languages abroad. His most recent book is Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of an American Dream. He has won the Rea Non-Fiction Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jerrell’s debut poetry collection, After the Revival (Waywiser Press, 2010), received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Subtropics, Image, Passages North, and Fringe, as well as in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. She received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, where she was a Chancellor’s Fellow. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Murray State University.

Heinen began working on literary magazines as a reader for The Cimarron Review. He has since served as the managing editor for Blue Mesa Review. He is currently in the Ph.D. program at Texas Tech. His work has recently appeared in The Florida Review.

Quesada holds an M.F.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Texas Tech University. His awards include residencies at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. His poetry and translations have appeared in Stand Magazine, Rattle, Southern California Review, Third Coast, as well as a chapbook of translations, Exiled from the Throne of Night (2008), from Aureole Press at the University of Toledo-Ohio.