Kelly Harris
Bayou Magazine is pleased to announce that Kelly Harris will act as our Guest Poetry Editor for the 2017-2018 submission season. Kelly Harris received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Cave Canem. Most recently, her multi-media poetic […]
Dorothy Allison
By Christine Stevralia Dorothy Allison is the award-winning author of Trash, a collection of short stories, and two novels, Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller, both of which have been adapted for stage and screen. She has written two books of creative nonfiction, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, and a collection of […]
Michael Knight
By James A. Jordan Michael Knight has written two novels, three collections of short stories, and a collection of novellas. His novel, The Typist, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Huffington Post and was featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. In 2013, he received the Robert Penn Warren […]
Patricia Bosworth
By Christine Stevralia and Marian Kaufman Patricia Bosworth is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. A winner of the Front Page Award, she taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and Barnard College and ran the Playwrights-Directors Unit of the Actors Studio, where she was a board member. Her book, Jane Fonda: The […]
Poet Jay Hopler
By Marian Kaufman Jay Hopler is the author of the poetry collections Green Squall and The Abridged History of Rainfall, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. He is also the editor (with Kimberly Johnson) of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry. He is the recipient of the Yale Series […]
Aaron Gilbreath
Aaron Gilbreath has published widely both as an essayist and a journalist in magazines such as Harper’s, The New York Times, and the Paris Review. His essays have been listed as notables in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing, and a group of these essays, including the winner of Bayou Magazine’s 2008 Nonfiction Contest, appeared […]
Myung Mi Kim
By Marian Kaufman Myung Mi Kim spoke with us about how her writing interrogates language, incorporates research, and realizes form. She also describes her current writing project. Myung immigrated with her family to the United States from Seoul, Korea, at the age of nine. She earned a BA from Oberlin College, an MA from The […]
Alexander Chee
By Marian Kaufman Alexander Chee is the author of the award-winning debut novel Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, and NPR, among others. Along with serving as a contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor […]
Jericho Brown
By Marian Kaufman This year the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans celebrates its 25th anniversary. We interviewed alumnus Jericho Brown. After graduating from the program, Jericho went on to receive his Ph.D in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in the The New Republic, […]
Anne Raeff
By Marian Kaufman Anne Raeff, the judge for our annual James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, spoke with us about her passions for teaching, travel, history, and the influence of these passions on her writing. Her first novel, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, was published in 2002. She has published stories and essays in various journals, including New […]