About The Idaho Review

An annual literary journal founded in 1998, The Idaho Review has had two stories selected for reprint in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, one story and one poem reprinted in The Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South, plus three stories listed in "One Hundred Other Distinguished Short Stories" in The Best American Short Stories, and four stories earning "Special Mention" in The Pushcart Prize. The journal has won 2003 and 2004 grants from the NEA, and has published writers such as Ann Beattie, Richard Bausch, Joy Williams and Rick Bass.

About the Editor

Mitch Wieland holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where he served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review. His novel, Willy Slater’s Lane (SMU Press, 1996), received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist, and was optioned for a film. His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, StoryQuarterly, and numerous other journals. An Associate Professor of English, he serves as director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and founding editor of The Idaho Review. He is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from The Idaho Commission on the Arts and a Faculty Research Grant.