The Greensboro Review
Edited by Terry L. Kennedy, UNC Greensboro

Frequency: Spring and Fall
Latest Issue: Number 112: Fall 2022
Size: 6 x 9
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 0017-4084
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For more than fifty years, the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro has published The Greensboro Review. The journal began in 1966, when students in the first years of the MFA wanted a place to publish their creative work. With $500 from the Chancellor—“an amount that hardly covered the cost of printing 500 copies,” according to Robert Watson, poet and co-founder of the MFA program—students and faculty used the campus duplicating shop to print the debut issue, then collated it by hand. Greensboro painter Betty Watson designed the logo that is still in use today.
The mission of the journal quickly shifted from “a house organ for our MFA students,” and the Review began to publish writers like Ezra Pound and Joyce Carol Oates. But as longtime editor Jim Clark described, “the GR has always taken the most joy in publishing work by new writers at the beginning of their careers, and we are proud to include in this group such writers as Lewis Nordan, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Matthews, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, and Dave Smith.” In 1984, the GR established its Literary Awards thanks to an anonymous donor, and these prizes led to a more global following. Works from the journal are consistently included in the Pushcart Prize anthologies, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, and other collections honoring the finest writing by both established and emerging voices.
Today, the GR continues to be faculty- and student-run, and our editors regularly showcase writers whose work may be risk-taking or overlooked. The Greensboro Review is a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
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Editor
Terry L. Kennedy
Associate Editor
Jessie Van Rheenen
Managing Editor
Emma Boggs
Fiction Editor
Angela Winsor
Poetry Editor
Cat Robinson
Associate Fiction Editor
Glenn Bertram
Associate Poetry Editor
Samuel Cormac
Editorial Assistants
Jean-Luc Bouchard, Kiana Govoni, Aaron Jackson Emily Mathis, Aeron Parks, Maddy Porter, Noor Siddiqui, Mary Sims
Editorial Board
Xhenet Aliu, Stuart Dischell, Holly Goddard Jones, Derek Palacio, Emilia Phillips
Consulting Senior Editors
Fred Chappell, Julie Funderburk, Lee Zacharias
Table of Contents
Number 112, Fall 2022
Editor’s Note, Terry L. Kennedy
Fiction
Something Like Comfort, Chris Edmonds
Origin Story, Carol M. Quinn
Galapagos Magic, Louise Marburg
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, Sarah Elaine Smith
Chromatophore Revival, Larry Flynn
Planet Nine, Cynthia Gunadi
Bad Bucolia, Sarah MacKenzie
The Border Guard, Aidan O’Brien
The Phenomenal Funeral Formula, Caitlin Rae Taylor
Poetry
Whispering Pines Trailer Park, Chris Mattingly
Broken Showerhead, Dom Witten
Othello the Moor, A. Van Jordan
Aaron the Moor, A. Van Jordan
April Prayer, Todd Davis
Decay and Other Death-Like Acts, Madison Rahner
Sacramento 1994, AE Hines
Knickerbocker Laundromat, Abby Wolpert
An Unkindness of Ravens, Skyler Osborne
I Wish I Had a Head for Numbers, Dean Young
Voiceover, Matt Hart
Aerial View of Maze, Suphil Lee Park (수필 리 박 / 秀筆 李 朴)
Kelly Cherry Folio, Kelly Cherry
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Phone (336) 334-5459
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