The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the
University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor
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The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site.
Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba".
In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by
Margaret Atwood
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Carol Gilligan
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David M. Halperin
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Douglas Hofstadter
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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Toni Morrison
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Joyce Carol Oates
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John Updike
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William Julius Wilson
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and fiction by
Sergio Troncoso
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Elizabeth Gaffney
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Garth Greenwell
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Kalisha Buckhanon
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Eileen Pollack
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Peter Orner
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Douglas Trevor
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Steve Amick
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Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University.
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Corinne Demas
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Lauren Belfer
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Personal life
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The magazine's contents are often reprinted in prize anthologies, textbooks, magazines such as '' Harper's'' and the ''
Utne Reader
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''. '' The Best American Poetry'' series frequently reprints poems that originally appeared in ''Michigan Quarterly Review''. The magazine won the ''Utne Reader'' Award for "Writing Excellence" in 2001.
See also
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List of literary magazines
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