''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in

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, and New York City. Portland publisher

Win McCormack Win McCormack is an American publisher and editor from Oregon. He is editor-in-chief of ''Tin House'' magazine and Tin House Books, the former publisher of ''Oregon Magazine'', founder and treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc., and a co-founder of ''Mo ...

originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and

Elissa Schappell Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. She was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine ''Tin House''. Writing career Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writin ...

. In 2005, ''Tin House'' expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years to focus on their book releases and workshops. ''Tin House'' published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of writing greats. It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices". ''Tin House'' was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek, was featured in ''

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'' for

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, and in 2006, "Window" by Deborah Eisenberg was a "juror favorite" in '' The O. Henry Prize Stories''. The magazine was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue.

Staff

* Publisher and Editor-in-Chief:

* Editor: Rob Spillman * Art Director: Diane Chonette * Deputy Publisher: Holly Macarthur * Managing Editor: Cheston Knapp * Executive Editor: Michelle Wildgen * Senior Editor: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky * Editor-at-Large:

* Associate Editor: Thomas Ross * Poetry Editor: Camille T. Dungy * Senior Designer
Jakob Vala
* Paris Editor: Heather Hartley * Copy Editors: Meg Storey and Jess Kibler

Writers whose work has appeared in ''Tin House''

* Chris Adrian *

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Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of aw ...

* Steve Almond * Yehuda Amichai *

Rebecca Aronson Rebecca Aronson is an American poet. She worked as an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) located in Maryville, Missouri, until 2008, when she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Author Aronson is the auth ...

Tom Barbash Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. He is the author of the novel ''The Last Good Chance,'' a collection of short stories ''Stay Up With Me,'' and the bestselling nonfiction work ''On Top ...

* Charles Baxter *

Aimee Bender Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate de ...

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 ...

Lucy Corin Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015. ...

* Ariel Dorfman * Stuart Dybek * Deborah Eisenberg *

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* Richard Ford * William Gay *

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Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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* Bret Anthony Johnston * Miranda July * Yasunari Kawabata * James Kelman *

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Phil Klay Phil Klay (; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, '' Redeployment''. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under ...

* Stanley Kunitz * Kelly Le Fave *

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Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood (born 27 April 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her 2021 debut novel, '' No One Is Talking About This,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her 2017 memoir '' Priestdaddy'' won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. H ...

* Rick Moody *

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* Sharon Olds * Dawn Powell * Peter Rock *

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* John Sanford * Charles Simic *

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* Quincy Troupe *

Danielle Trussoni Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and writes the "Dark Matters" column for the ''New York Times Book Review''. She cr ...

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Tin House Books

Staff

* Senior Editor: Masie Cochran * Senior Editor: Tony Perez * Assistant Editor: Elizabeth DeMeo * Director of Marketing & Rights: Nanci McCloskey * Director of Publicity: Molly Templeton * Publicity and Marketing Assistant: Yashwina Canter * Art Director: Diane Chonette * Senior Designer
Jakob Vala
* Designer: Jeremy Cruz

Books published

* ''Best of Tin House'' (2006). * ''Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House'' (2007). * ''Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast'' (2006). * ''The World Within'' (2007). * Arnold-Ratliff, Katie. ''Bright Before Us'' (2011). * Becker, Geoffrey. ''Hot Springs'' (2010). * Beha, Christopher. ''What Happened to Sophie Wilder'' (2012). 978-1935639312 * Bogan, Louis, trans. and ed. ''The Journal of Jules Renard'' (2008). * Boren, Karen Lee. ''Girls in Peril'' (2006). * Braver, Adam. "November 22, 1963" (2008). * Corin, Lucy. ''The Entire Predicament'' (2007). * DeVoto, Bernard. ''The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto'' (2010). * Erens, Pamela. '' The Virgins'' (2013). * Fasenfest, Harriet. ''A Householder's Guide to the Universe'' (2010). * Freed, Dolly. ''Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money'' (2010). * Fuller, Claire. ''Our Endless Numbered Days'' (2015). * Goldfaden, Josh. ''Human Resources'' (2006). * Grimes, Tom. ''Mentor: A Memoir'' (2010). * Hallman, J. C. ed. ''The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature'' (2009). * Harvey, Matthea, illustrated by Zechel, Elizabeth. ''The Little General and The Giant Snowflake'' (2009). * Heyns, Michiel, introduction by

A. L. Kennedy Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns ...

. "The Children's Day" (2009). * Hirvonen, Elina. "When I Forgot" (2009). * Hunt, Samantha. "The Seas" (2018). * Krusoe, Jim. "Erased." (2009) * Krusoe, Jim. ''Girl Factory'' (2008). * Lawrence, Sarahlee. ''River House'' (2007). * Lemon, Alex. ''Mosquito'' (2006). * Matheson, Michele. ''Saving Angelfish'' (2006). * McCormack, Win. ''You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values'' (2008). * Michaels, Sean. ''

Us Conductors ''Us Conductors'' is a debut novel by Canadian writer Sean Michaels. Published in 2014 by Random House in Canada and Tin House in the United States, the novel is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Léon Theremin (also known as Le ...

'' (2014). * Montgomery, Lee and Tony Perez, eds. "The Writer's Notebook" (2009). * Morris, Keith Lee. ''Call It What You Want'' (2010). * Morris, Keith Lee. ''The Dart League King'' (2008). * Nevai, Lucia. ''Salvation'' (2008). * Otis, Mary. ''Yes, Yes Cherries'' (2007) * Parker, Jeff, Mikhail Iossel, eds.

Francine Prose Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center. Life and career Born in Brookl ...

, intro. "Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia" (2009). * Parker, Jeff. ''Ovenman'' (2007). * Pashley, Jennifer. ''The Scamp'' (2015). * Pico, Tommy. ''Nature Poem'' (2017). * Shaughnessy, Brenda and C. J. Evans, eds. "Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House" (2008). * Smith, Robert Paul, illustrated by Smith, Elinor Goulding. ''How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself'' (2010). * Smith, Zak. ''Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of

Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, scie ...

's Novel Gravity's Rainbow'' (2006). * Smith, Zak. "We Did Porn" (2009). * Sparling, Scott. ''Wire to Wire'' (2011). * Specktor, Matthew. ''American Dream Machine'' (2012). 978-1935639442 * Taylor, Kimball. ''The Coyote's Bicycle'' (2016). * van Niekerk, Marlene. ''Agaat'' (2010). * Vanasco, Jeanie. ''The Glass Eye'' (2017). * Watson, Jan Elizabeth. "Asta in the Wings" (2009). Tin House Catalog
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