Issue 30 includes:
Fiction by Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy contributor Helena Bell, Vincent Czyz, Maureen Langloss, and Lucas Southworth.
Nonfiction by NEA and Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, death row inmate and essayist Lyle May, Bill Marsh, and Lesley Wheeler.
Poetry by NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bruce Bond, and Jenny Browne; PEN Discovery Award winner Andrea Cohen; Gregory O'Donogue International Prize winner Shangyang Fang; MacArthur "Genius" Edward Hirsch; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore; Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock; Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Erika Meitner; Iowa Prize winner Alicia Mountain; Best New Poets contributor Shakthi Shrima, and many others.
Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Bangladeshi writer Ruma Modak (trans. Shabnam Nadiya), and poetry by Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch (trans. Donnna Spruijt-Metz), Polish poet Tomasz Różycki (trans. Mira Rosenthal), and Israeli poet Maya Tevet Dayan (trans. Jane Medved).
The cover features work by Denver-based artist Kate Petley, who has been featured in twenty-seven solo exhibitions and has received an NEA Rockefeller Foundation Grant (among other honors).
About the Author: Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of four collections, including Post- and The City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac)--along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and prose editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth) and Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and The Beach at Galle Road).
Since the journal's relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been listed as "notable" in the Best American Essays.
Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEA and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.
Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.