Publisher
John Oakes is the co-founder of OR Books, where he is now editor-at-large. He got his start in publishing in 1987 as an assistant editor at Barney Rosset’s Grove Press.
Editor-in-chief
Dale Peck is the author of twelve books, including the novels Martin and John and Greenville, the essay collection Hatchet Jobs, and the memoir Visions and Revisions.
Art Director
Joy Garnett is an artist and writer from New York. Her work has been shown at the FLAG Art Foundation, MoMA–PS1, the James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She lives in Los Angeles where she’s writing a family memoir of Egypt.
Poetry Editor
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. He has published three other books of poems and a book of zuihitsu. Originally from Singapore, Jee lives in New York City. He is the founder and organizer of the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound.
Contributing Editor
Miracle Jones is a writer and impresario. He is the co-founding director of Fiction Circus and the co-publisher of Instar Books.
Africa Editor
A Chicago native, Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of five books, most recently the novel Song of the Shank. He is at work on several projects, including the memoir Mother Wit. He makes his home in Johannesburg, South Africa. Find out more about him at www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com
Contributing Editor
Zia Jaffrey is the author of The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India. She is currently writing a book about Arab-Americans.
Contributing Editor
Calvin Baker's most recent novel, Grace, was published in 2015. A technology entrepreneur, Baker is co-founder of the digital content platform ScrollMotion.
Contributing Editor
Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion and the memoir Sick. A journalist and professor, she is a senior editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Assistant Editor
Bonnie Chau is a writer, teacher, and translator, and the author of the short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood. She previously worked in independent bookstores and at 826LA and Poets & Writers, and is currently an editor at Public Books.
Design & Development
Poco Meloso is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in New York.
Assistant Art Director
Sacha Halona Baumann is an artist, designer, curator, and art business professional based in downtown Los Angeles. She is the independent publisher of FULL BLEDE, a contemporary art and writing broadsheet, and recently published a book of photography, STEP and REPEAT.
In 1957, Barney Rosset, Fred Jordan and a few others launched The Evergreen Review with work by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Schorer, and James Purdy. For the next sixteen years, Evergreen published writing that launched an assault on American propriety: literary, sexual, and social. Evergreen’s genius lay in its ability to mix radical American voices from the literary and social fringes—Burroughs, Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, LeRoi Jones, Henry Miller—with a global cast of writers, many of whom were introduced to American readers by the magazine: Beckett, Genet, Grass, Ōe, Duras, Paz, Walcott, Nabokov. The magazine was often shocking, always intriguing. It featured some of the finest writing available, by writers whose influence continues to shape contemporary literature. Here are a few such selections:
After a hiatus of many years, Evergreen was re-launched on-line in 1998, and then again in 2017. Now under the leadership of publisher John Oakes and editor-in-chief Dale Peck, the new Evergreen builds on Rosset’s legacy of searching out the stories that challenge our sensibilities and expand our understanding of the way people actually live in the world, and the way their truths can be expressed. Available free of charge in an online-only format, the non-profit magazine features fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from an international array of new and established writers. Additionally, new editions of Foxrock Books, the book publishing arm of The Evergreen Review, are being released on a periodic basis; the first two titles available in the series are Samuel Beckett’s Stirrings Still and Marguerite Duras’ The Man Sitting in the Corridor.
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Poetry submissions:
Send 5-10 of your best unpublished poems to Jee at jeeleong@evergreenreview.com.
Read the Review to get a sense of what we like.
Send 5-10 of your best unpublished poems to Jee at jeeleong@evergreenreview.com.
Read the Review to get a sense of what we like.
Questions?
contact us at info[at]evergreenreview.com or write to us using the form below
The Evergreen Review gratefully acknowledges the generous support of
the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the Jan Michalski Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
