We dedicate the tenth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Ishmael Reed.
Terrance Hayes
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Peggy Shumaker
David Wagoner
Natalie Goldberg
Lydia Davis
Manuel Martinez
Ishamel Reed is the renowned novelist, essayist, poet, and critic who has published ten novels, six collections of poetry, eight collections of essays, a farce, a libretto, two travelogues, and six plays. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Reed is a founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, which confers the American Book Awards yearly.
We dedicate the ninth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Bruce Holland Rogers.
Dana Gioia
Annie Finch
Roy Kesey
Ray Vukcevich
Laura Gibson
Terri Brown-Davidson
Bruce Holland Rogers is internationally recognized as one of the finest voices in flash fiction. The winner of two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, and a Pushcart Prize, Rogers appeals to readers across genre boundaries. Rogers has taught in Denmark, Greece, Finland, and Portugal, and in 2010 he taught at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest on a Fulbright grant. He is a member of the permanent faculty at Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.
We dedicate the eighth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Juan Felipe Herrera.
David Wagoner
Lan Lan
Jennine Capo Crucet
Barry Yourgrau
John Calderazzo
Timothy Marsh
Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, musician, educator, and painter who has for decades been recognized as one of the most influential talents in the Chicano Literary movement. Herrera has written numerous collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and children’s books, and was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Half the World In Light, and has also received the Pura Belpre Honors Award, the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. After serving as chair of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department at CSU Fresno for many years, Herrera joined the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, as Tomas Rivera Endowed chair.
We dedicate the seventh issue of The Los Angeles Review to Judy Grahn.
Lucia Perillo
Tess Gallagher
Rick Bass
Fortunato Salazar
Barry Lopez
Brian Doyle
Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. Her work underpins several movements, including Gay, Lesbian, and Queer; Feminist/ Woman-Centered; and Women’s Spirituality. She serves as Associate Core Faculty for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in their Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program. She holds a Ph.D. in Integral Studies from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her 2008 collection love belongs to those who do the feeling (Red Hen Press) received the LAMBDA award for lesbian poetry.
We dedicate the sixth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Wanda Coleman.
Michael Czyzniejewski
Lydia Davis
Barry Graham
Naseem Rakha
Deborah Ager
Alex Lemon
Jee Leong Koh
Steve Almond
Wanda Coleman is the unofficial poet laureate of the city of Los Angeles. Marilyn Hacker called Coleman “a poet whose angry and extravagant music, so far beyond baroque, has been making itself heard across the divide between West Coast and East, establishment and margins, slams and seminars, across the too-American rift among races and genders.” Coleman is the author of ten books, most recently Jazz and Twelve O’Clock Tales.
We dedicate the fifth issue of The Los Angeles Review to Eloise Klein Healy.
Kim Addonizio
Charles Harper Webb
Timothy Green
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of seven books of poetry, including Building Some Changes and Passing, and three spoken word volumes. She is the founding editor of ARKTOI, an imprint of Red Hen Press, the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, the director of the Women’s Studies Program at California State University Northridge, and the recipient of the Horace Mann Award from Antioch University Los Angeles, where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita.
