Amalia Melis was born and raised in New York. She is a freelance hard news/feature writer who has worked from New York and Athens, Greece. She has published interviews with two Pulitzer Prize winning authors Michael Cunningham and Frank McCourt. She is an essayist and fiction writer as well. Her […]
Such were skirts in college. Or, at least, Picasso paintings. So I got a job. The cubes were piled inside the cubicle, and cubicles composed the office space. The structure had its hundred offices. The orifices in their turns were sundry and assorted, many tiny. My own […]
John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit, which was recently launched from BOA Editions, Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009) and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), which won the Levis Poetry Prize. He is an associate professor of English at Northwest […]
Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith (Sarabande), 2020 recipient of the North American Book Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is writing on the role of […]
It is truly an honor to introduce the twenty-first issue of Tupelo Quarterly. In addition to featuring new work by such literary luminaries as Karla Kelsey, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Brandon Shimoda, Elisa Gabbert, Denise Duhamel, & Julie Marie Wade, we are excited to highlight several exciting new voices in the literary […]
Geoffrey Gatza is an award winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, a small press in Buffalo, NY and was named by the Huffington Post as one of the Top 200 Advocates for American Poetry. He is the author many books of poetry, including A Dog Lost in […]
It is truly an honor to introduce the twentieth issue of Tupelo Quarterly. In addition to featuring new work by such literary luminaries as Daniel Tiffany, Emily Rosko, G.C. Waldrep, Elisabeth Frost, and NourbeSe Philip, we are excited to highlight several exciting new voices in the literary arts. Raena Shirali, […]
Brenna Womer is a prose writer, poet, and English Lecturer at Western Colorado University. She holds an MA in English from Missouri State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula. She is the author of the mixed-genre collection honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) […]
Alan Michael Parker is the author or editor of eighteen books: the novels Cry Uncle (2006),Whale Man (2011), The Committee on Town Happiness (2014), and Christmas in July (2018); and the books of poems Days Like Prose (1997), The Vandals (1999), Love Song with Motor Vehicles (2003), The Penates (2006), Elephants & Butterflies (2007), Ten Days (2010, with painter Herb Jackson), Long Division (2012), and The Ladder (2016). His next book of poems, […]
Emily Rosko is a rising star in contemporary poetry. She has a gift for bridging the vast expanse that is often imagined between literature and philosophy. Like the great modernist poets who came before her, particularly Mina Loy, H.D., Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore, Rosko proves that form […]
