Priyatam Mudivarti, Interview Editor for the Review Review, had a chat with Ata in our South College office at the University of Massachusetts just the other day. So have a look, and learn something about our new Managing Editor, and about MR as well. And don't forget to stop in and say hey next time you're on campus.
So we're a little slow here... but we just got word that in mid-November Melinda Moustakis -- who published a wonderful, searing story in MR 50.4 -- was named on the 2011 National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction list! Congratulations Melinda! This latest recognition comes for her linked story collection Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, which also won the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award in short fiction. The book came out with the University of Georgia Press just this past September. To get you started, because we know you won't...
Myriam J.A. Chancy, whose excerpt from The Loneliness of Angels was published in MR's Summer issue of Volume 51, was just awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010 for Best Book of Fiction for her novel!
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in Canada, Chancy’s first novel Spirit of Haiti (Mango Publications, 2003) was shortlisted for the Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region category of the Commonwealth Prize in 2004. The Loneliness of Angels was longlisted for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature and shortlisted in its fiction category....
Wesleyan University Press recently released MR's own John Vincent's After Spicer, the first edited critical book dedicated to the work of Jack Spicer! The Huffington Post declared it as "one of the most anticipated books of the year for 2011!"
Including essays by Maria Damon, Norman Finkelstein, Kelly Holt, Catherine Imbriglio, Kevin Killian, Michael Snediker, Anita Sokolsky,...
The editors of the Massachusetts Review are proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Jules Chametzky Translation Prize: Rebecca Gaye Howell for her translation, with Husam Qaisi, of excerpts from Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri's Hagar before the Occupation/Hagar after the Occupation. This translation from Arabic into English appeared in the journal’s Winter 2010 issue (5104).
Rebecca Gayle Howell’s poems and translations have graced the pages of Ninth Letter, Ecotone, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Poetry Daily. She holds a combined MFA in Poetry and Translation from Drew University and was a 2010-2011 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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