MASTHEAD

MANAGING EDITOR
Sarah Matthes
managing@batcityreview.com

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sunny Butterfield
editor@batcityreview.com

POETRY EDITOR
Anna Sudderth
poetry@batcityreview.com

FICTION EDITOR
Kailani Biehl
fiction@batcityreview.com

NON FICTION EDITOR
Darius Atefat-Peckham
nonfiction@batcityreview.com

MARKETING DIRECTOR AND ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR
Ira Goga
marketing@batcityreview.com

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Madison Bolding, Jingyu Li, Landon Odle, Allison M. Pujol

INTERNS
Niloofar Adib, Mia Marianela Alaniz, Aqsa Babar, Pradhitha Boppana, Lucy Llano, Jana Nguyen, Julianna Riccioli, Charlie Sharpe, Ava Vano,

FACULTY ADVISOR
Lisa Olstein

FOUNDING EDITORS
Jessica Piazza
R. J. Lambert
James Capozzi
Kurt Heinzelman

MISSION STATEMENT

Founded in 2004, Bat City Review is a literary journal and community devoted to supporting emerging and established writers and artists. Dedicated to diversity of form, thought, and voice we publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art crafted with passion and precision—work that expands our imaginations and complicates our conversations; work willing to take risks, surprise, experiment, and play. Collaboratively edited by MFA candidates from the New Writers Project, Michener Center for Writers, and Studio Art; Bat City Review is generously supported by the University of Texas at Austin’s English Department and James A. Michener Center for Writers.

Matthea Harvey, AWP Minneapolis 2015
Bat City reading at Architectural Antiques
Photograph by Ash Ponders

Dobby Gibson, AWP Minneapolis 2015
Bat City reading at Architectural Antiques
Photograph by Ash Ponders

Matthew Rohrer, AWP Minneapolis 2015
Bat City reading at Architectural Antiques
Photograph by Ash Ponders

AWP Minneapolis 2015
Bat City reading at Architectural Antiques
Photograph by Ash Ponders

Tabitha, our taxidermy bat
AWP 2015 Bookfair

Sam Sax, Issue 12 Editor-in-Chief
Gypsy Lounge, Austin, TX

Cassandra Powers, Issue 11 Fiction Editor
Gypsy Lounge, Austin, TX

Past contributors include Tomaž Šalamun, Dara Wier, James Tate, Patricia Lockwood, Noelle Kocot, Zachary Schomburg, Matthew Zapruder, Mary Jo Bang, Maurice Manning, Colm Tóibín, Stephen Dunn, Dean Young, Aimee Bender, George Saunders, H.L. Hix, Dorianne Laux, Terrance Hayes, Ron Savage, Denise Duhamel, Marilyn Hacker, Ben Lerner, C.K. Williams, Thylias Moss, Craig Arnold, G.C. Waldrep, Shane McCrae, James Gendron, Donald Revell, Terese Svoboda, Khaled Mattawa, Tracy K. Smith, and Anthony Doerr.

We were the first American literary journal to publish poems by Mahmoud Darwish, and our access to materials at the Harry Ransom Center has allowed us to showcase archival photographs of Anne Sexton and drawings by Gerard Manley Hopkins, D.H. Lawrence, and e.e. cummings. Other special features include interviews, commissioned ekphrastic poems, and author portfolios.

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