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Thomas Larson

March 24, 2017
Thomas Larson is the author to The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative and The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s "Adagio for Strings."

Rebecca McClanahan

May 9, 2016
Rebecca McClanahan has published ten books of nonfiction, essays, poetry, and writing instruction, most recently The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change and a new edition of Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively.

Sydney Lea

August 28, 2014
Sydney Lea, a former Pulitzer finalist, founded and for thirteen years edited New England Review. His thirteenth collection of poems, Here, is due from Four Way Books in 2019.

Leila Philip

January 29, 2014
Leila Philip is the author of three books of nonfiction, including her most recent work, the award-winning memoir, A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family.

Harvey, Kerstetter Essays Chosen for Reprint in Best American Essays 2013

By Dan Lehman   |  April 18, 2013
Two essays first published in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative Volume 13, Number 2 will be featured in Best American Essays 2013, the long-running series published by Houghton Mifflin Books and edited by Robert Atwan. Steven Harvey's essay, "The Book of Knowledge" and Jon Kerstetter's essay, "Triage" will appear in BAE 2013, scheduled for an October 2013 release.

Steven Harvey

January 23, 2012
Steven Harvey is the author of three collections of essays including A Geometry of Lilies, Lost in Translation, and Bound for Shady Grove.

Volume 13 Number 2

January 23, 2012
Featuring work by Steven Harvey, Thomas Larson, Sarah M. Wells, Jon Kerstetter, Sydney Lea, Leila Philip, Dan Roche, Sara Loewen, Rebecca McClanahan, Michael R. Shea, and MaryKatherine Ramsey

Sarah M. Wells

January 23, 2012
Sarah M. Wells is the author of the chapbook of poems, Acquiesce, winner of the Starting Gate Award from Finishing Line Press.

Sara Loewen

January 23, 2012
Sara Loewen’s essay collection is forthcoming from the University of Alaska Press in 2013.

MaryKatherine Ramsey

January 23, 2012
MaryKatherine Ramsey is a graduate of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University.

Dan Roche

January 23, 2012
Dan Roche’s memoirs include Great Expectation: A Father’s Diary (Iowa, 2008) and Love’s Labors: A Story of Marriage (Riverhead, 1999), and his nonfiction has appeared in The North American Review, The Journal, Fourth Genre, Under the Sun, and other places.

Michael R. Shea

January 23, 2012
Michael R. Shea is a video producer at Field & StreamOutdoor Life magazines.

Editor's Notes, Volume 13 Number 2

By Joe Mackall   |  January 23, 2012
In the third or fourth year of River Teeth’s existence, a former undergraduate English professor of mine submitted an essay to us. As I tore open the envelope, I fantasized about how many nasty ways I could reject this guy.

Jon Kerstetter

January 23, 2012
Jon Kerstetter has completed three combat tours of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Army as a combat physician and flight surgeon.

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