''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' is a biannual

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founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the

University of Alaska Anchorage The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is a public university in Anchorage, Alaska. UAA also administers four community campuses spread across Southcentral Alaska: Kenai Peninsula College, Kodiak College, Matanuska–Susitna College, and Prin ...

and continued unaffiliated in 2020.July 1, 2020 University of Alaska Anchorage ended its financial and administrative support due to budget cuts and Covid-19. Alaska Quarterly Review is an unaffiliated publication. Ronald Spatz serves as editor-in-chief. It was deemed by the ''

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'' "Book World" to be "one of the nation's best literary magazines." A number of works originally published in ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' have been subsequently selected for inclusion in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Best Creative Nonfiction'', ''The Best American Short Stories, ''

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, ''Prize Stories: The

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'', ''The Beacon Best'', ''and ''The

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: The Best of the Small Presses''.Magazine With an Imprint: Alaska Quarterly Review Survives, ''Anchorage Daily News'', April 19, 1992. Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include

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winner

Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991). Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a su ...

winner Ira Sadoff and

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recipient

Jennifer Haigh Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. Life She was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvania coal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Cambria County. She a ...

. More recent contributors of note include

Peter Selgin Peter Selgin (; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Biography The son of ...

, Darrin Doyle, Karen Brown,

Aryn Kyle Aryn Kyle (born January 22, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a 2008 recipient of the Alex Awards. Life Kyle was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. She graduated from Colorado State Uni ...

Bonnie Jo Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell (born September 14, 1962 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her most recent work is ''Mothers, Tell Your Daughters'', published with W.W. Norton and Company. Life and work Campbell attend ...

, Matt Clark, Alicia Gifford, Ann Harleman,

Christien Gholson Christien Gholson is an American-born writer and author of three books: the novel ''A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind,'' a book of interconnected prose poems, ''On the Side of the Crow'', and ''All the Beautiful Dead (along the side of the road)''. Gh ...

, Alison Baker,

Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ confirmed ...

, John Gamel, Mary Stewart Atwell, Kirstin Allio,

Henri Cole Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic. Biography Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an Amer ...

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W.S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thema ...

, Lorraine M. Lopez, and

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (born February 14, 1972) is a Chinese American writer. She previously taught writing and literature in the Graduate MFA Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design until 2015. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and ...

. Contributing editors include former

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins ...

Olena Kalytiak Davis Olena Kalytiak Davis (born September 16, 1963) is a Ukrainian-American poet. Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being ''Late Summer Ode''. Her collection ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'' (2014, Copper Ca ...

Stuart Dischell Stuart Dischell (born May 29, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American poet and Professor in English Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Career Stuart Dischell studied ...

Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Biography Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s a ...

Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers (born 1954 Chicago) is an American poet. Life She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan Universi ...

Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl (born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center. Life Patric ...

Amy Hempel Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers. Life Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is wher ...

Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important ...

Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the Universi ...

Pattiann Rogers Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry. Life Pattiann Rogers is an American po ...

, Michael Ryan, Peggy Shumaker, Benjamin J. Spatz, and Elizabeth Bradfield. The late

Grace Paley Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist. Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and Na ...

and

Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...

were also long-term contributing editors.

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