The Massachusetts Review is a national literary journal founded in 1959 by a group of professors from
Amherst CollegeAmherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
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Mount Holyoke CollegeMount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
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Smith CollegeSmith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
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University of Massachusetts AmherstThe University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
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Early contributors included
Robert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
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May SartonMay Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton , an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.-Biography:...
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Maxine KuminMaxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:...
. The magazine has featured fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays by such renowned writers as Stephen Dixon,
Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
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Jacob M. AppelJacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
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Robert H. AbelRobert Halsall Abel is an American short story writer, and novelist.-Life:Robert Halsall Abel was born on May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio. His father was Robert H...
, Myra Goldberg, Jincy Willet and
Rosellen BrownRosellen Brown is an American author, and has been an instructor of English and creative writing at several universities, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Houston...
. It has also devoted considerable space to literary scholarship on
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
and W. E. B. Du Bois. More recent contributors of note include short story writers Nate Haken, John Clayton and Valerie Hurley, and poet Kurt Heinzelman.
The current staff includes: David Lenson, Editor-in-Chief;
Corinne DemasCorinne Demas is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, a memoir, a play, and numerous books for children. She's published more than forty short stories, in a variety of magazines and literary journals...
, Fiction Editor; and Deborah Gorlin, Poetry Editor.
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