Copper Nickel: Issue 24

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado

Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of Post- and The

City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and cotranslator of Moikom

Zeqo’s Zodiac)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of The Black Ocean and The

Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and

prose editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth) and Joanna Luloff (author of

The Beach at Galle Road).

Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected for

inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize

Anthology, and has been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays.

Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including

the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts

Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota,

and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the

Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book

Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as

fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros,

Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.

Copper Nickel is published twice a year, in March and October, and is distributed

nationally to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media

Solutions, LLC.

Issue 24 includes a feature of twenty-two “flash fictions” by established and emerging

fiction writers, including Ed Falco, Robert Long Foreman, Stephanie Dickinson, Pedro Ponce,

Matthew Salesses, Ruth Joffre, Danielle Lazarin, Joseph Aguilar, Thomas Legendre, Patricia

Murphy, Wendy Oleson, Alicita Rodríguez, and Thaddeus Rutkowski. Also featured are

translation folios by Italian experimental poet and computer scientist Lorenzo Carlucci,

Brazilian poet and PEN Brazil National Prize Winner Denise Emmer, and

internationally renowned Russian poet Tatiana Shcherbina. Other contributors include

poets Kaveh Akbar, Adam Tavel, David Dodd Lee, Kerri French, Ashley Keyser, Ryan Sharp,

Kevin Craft, J. Allyn Rosser, Zeina Hashem Beck, Ed Bok Lee, John A. Nieves, &c.; fiction

writers Bradley Bazzle, Erin Kate Ryan, and T. D. Storm; and nonfiction writers Aimée Baker,

Dan Beachy-Quick, and S. Farrell Smith.