Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is
edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Jury
and Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom
Zeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happened
and the story collection The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of
Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of Real Phonies and
Genuine Fakes, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen
(author of The Pull of the Earth), Alexander Lumans (whose work has appeared in American Short
Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere), and Christopher Merkner
(author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic).
Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected for
inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart
Prize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays.
Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel
Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California,
Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix
Max Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf
Book Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as
fellowships from the NEA and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner,
Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.
Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally
to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.
Issue 35 Includes:
• Poetry Translation Folios with work by four 21st century female poets: emerging Korean poet
Kim Yurim, translated by Megan Sungyoon; emerging Spanish poet Beatriz Miralles de Imperial,
translated by Layla Benitez-James; Khazakhstani Russian-Language poet Aigerim Tazhi, translated
by J. Kates; and emerging Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, translated by Gabriella Fee and
Dora Malech.
• New Poetry by National Book Award finalist Leslie Harrison; Kingsley Tufts Award-winner
Angie Estes; Guggenheim Fellow Eric Pankey; Whiting Award-winner Joel Brouwer; Felix Pollack
Prize-winner Emily Bludworth de Barrios; as well as emerging poets Ariana Benson, Chee Brossy,
Dorsey Craft, Asa Drake, Anthony Immergluck, Luisa Maraadyan, Stephanie Niu, Ben Swimm,
and many others.
• New Fiction by recent NEA Fellow Sean Bernard and emerging writers Molly Beckwith Gutman,
Chemutai Kiplagat, and Sean Madden.
• New Essays by James Laughlin Prize-winner Kathryn Nuernberger and emerging essayist Despy
Boutris.
