Fifth Wednesday Journal Fall 2008 CoverFall 2008

Guest Fiction Editor: Molly McNett
Guest Poetry Editor: John Bradley

Molly McNett

Molly McNett is the current winner of the John Simmons award for short fiction; her book, One Dog Happy, will be published in the fall by University of Iowa Press. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, many literary journals, such as Fifth Wednesday, The Missouri Review, and New England Review, and Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers.

John Bradley

John Bradley is the author of Love-In-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello, Word Works; Add Musk Here, Pavement Saw Press; Terrestrial Music, Curbstone; and War on Words, BlazeVOX. He is the editor of Atomic Ghosts: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, Coffee House Press; Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader, University of Arizona Press; and the forthcoming Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath, The Backwaters Press. He is the recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships in poetry. He teaches writing at Northern Illinois University, and lives in DeKalb with his wife, Jana, and their cats, Kiki and Zuzu.

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Featuring Greg Bathon, Laura Bernstein-Machlay, Dave Etter, Chris Fink, Ray Gonzalez, Diana Joyce, George Kalamaras, C. Kursel, Ken Letko, Sherry O’Keefe, Donna Pucciani, Rebecca B. Rank, Harry Wilson, and others.

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