Hello and welcome to the Texas Review Press!
The Texas Review, a biannual international literary journal, features the very best fiction, poetry, scholarship, review, and creative nonfiction available.
Founded by Paul Ruffin, The Texas Review was first published in 1976 as The Sam Houston Literary Review. Building upon a regional reputation rather quickly by publishing top-quality fiction and poetry, In 1979 the journal assumed its new name when The Texas Quarterly folded at UT-Austin in 1978.
The Texas Review's excellent collection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction is what keeps readers coming back for more. In addition to publishing work by well-known American writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, the journal also features one or two Discovery stories at least once a year, and often the editors accept work by poets who have never published before. On occasion they run special issues, such as the recent one devoted to the fiction of James Dickey.
About The Staff
Editor: Dr. Paul Ruffin (Ph.D., Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi) directs the graduate creative writing program at Sam Houston State University. Professor Ruffin, who founded and serves as Editor of The Texas Review and founded and directs Texas Review Press, has published over ninety pieces of fiction, eighty essays, and over a thousand poems. His poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in such publications as Southern Review, Paris Review, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Connecticut Review, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Quarterly, South Carolina Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, New England Review, American Way, Mississippi Review, Best of the West, and Southwestern American Literature. His work has been published in a number of university textbooks, including Harcourt Brace's College Handbook of Creative Writing, Norton's Introduction to Literature, and Little Brown's Introduction to Literature and Introduction to Poetry. National Public Radio has also featured his work. Professor Ruffin is the author of two novels, four collections of short fiction (the latest, Living in a Christ-Haunted Land, to be released in French translation in late 2011), four books of essays (the latest, Travels with George in Search of Ben Hur, just published by the University of South Carolina Press), and seven collections of poetry. Professor Ruffin has edited or co-edited twelve other books, including scholarly books on John Steinbeck and William Goyen. He writes a weekly column, "Ruffin-It," which appears in several newspapers in the South and West. A past recipient of the Sam Houston State University Excellence in Research Award, Professor Ruffin teaches graduate classes in fiction and poetry writing and conducts editing and publication practica for graduate students. In December of 2003, he was named Distinguished Professor of English and in 2008 Texas State University System Regents' Professor. He was 2009 Texas State Poet Laureate.
Associate Editor: Dr. Scott Kaukonen (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia) is an assistant professor of creative writing in the Department of English at Sam Houston State University. His debut collection of short stories, Ordination, received the 2004 Ohio State University Prize for Short Fiction, and was published by OSU Press in 2005. His short story, "Punnett's Squares," won the 2004 Nelson Algren Prize from the Chicago Tribune. He's a former AWP/Prague Summer Fellow in Fiction and the recipient of a 2008 Literature Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Michigan, he earned his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he worked for The Missouri Review. He is currently completing a novel.
Fiction Editor:
Eric Miles Williamson
(University of Texas-Pan American)
Poetry Editor:
Robert Phillips
(University of Houston)
Assistant Editor:
Donald Coers
(Angelo State University)
Assistant to the Director
Consulting Editors
Rob Adams
Medieval Literature
(Sam Houston State University)
Katherine Gillespie
Colonial Literature
(Miami University of Ohio)
Don Graham
Texas and Southwestern Literature
(University of Texas)
Nancy Hargrove
Modern American and British Poetry
(Mississippi State University)
Ejner Jensen
Renaissance Drama
(University of Michigan)
Ernest Suarez
Southern Poetry
(Catholic University)
Noel Polk
Southern Poetry
(University of Southern Mississippi)
Rodney Rice
20th Century American Literature
and of the Great Plains
Ken Roemer
Native American Studies
(University of Texas, Arlington)
Howard Segal
Science and Technologie
(University of Maine)
Norman Shapiro
Romance Languages and Literature
(Wesleyan University)
Interns
Leann Fischel
Chris Foster
Doug Haines
Ruthie Irvin
Chad Meiners
