The Magazine

Tin House is a literary magazine based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The journal was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher, Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance found in many contemporary journals. With this in mind, he enlisted the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell, which resulted in a magazine that contains the energies of both coasts. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Official website: http://www. ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... Elissa Schappell is an American author and essayist. ...

Rather than simply being dedicated to either fiction or poetry, Tin House excels in both, and it also publishes interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional public domain and generally overlooked material, and drink recipes. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

In its short history, Tin House has already achieved much acclaim. A story from its Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek, was featured in 2004's Best American Short Stories, which is generally dominated by New Yorker fiction. Stuart Dybek is the author of five books. ... The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of the Best American Series published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ...

In the past few years, Tin House has expanded into a book division and a Summer Writers Workshop.

Members of the Tin House Staff

• Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: Win McCormack
• Editor: Rob Spillman
• Managing Editor: Holly MacArthur
• Executive Editor: Lee Montgomery
• Poetry Editor: Brenda Shaughnessy
• Senior Editor: Michelle Wildgen
• Associate Editors: Emily Bliquez, Jon Raymond
• Associate Poetry Editor: CJ Evans
• Assistant Editor: Ben George
• Editor at Large: Elissa Schappell

A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ...

Some Writers Appearing in Tin House

• Sherman Alexie
• Yehuda Amichai
• Ariel Dorfman
• Stuart Dybek
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Richard Ford
• Seamus Heaney
• Miranda July
• Yasunari Kawabata
• James Kelman
• Stanley Kunitz
• Kelly Le Fave
• Rick Moody
• Pablo Neruda
• Sharon Olds
• Dawn Powell
• Peter Rock
• Edward W. Said
• John Sanford
• Charles Simic
• Quincy Troupe
• David Foster Wallace
• James Salter
• Donna Tartt
• Aimee Bender
• Steve Almond
• Dorothy Allison

Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. ... Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. ... Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is a Jewish Chilean novelist, dramatist, essayist, and human rights activist. ... Stuart Dybek is the author of five books. ... Faiz Faiz Ahmed Faiz (فيض ١حمد فيض), (1984 - 1911) is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. ... Richard Ford (February 16, 1944- ) is an American novelist and short story writer. ... Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (born April 13, 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ... Miranda July Miranda July (born February 1, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, and film director. ... Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. ... James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ... Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody III October 18, 1961 in New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. ... Neruda recording poems at the U.S. Library of Congress in 1966 Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. ... Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet and author of eight volumes of poetry. ... Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American writer of satirical novels and stories that manage to be barbed and sensitive at the same time. ... Peter Rock is an American novelist born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد سعيد) (November 1, 1935 – September 24, 2003) was a well-known literary theorist, critic and outspoken Palestinian activist. ... John Sanford (1904 - March 6, 2003) was an American author. ... Charles Simic Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is an American poet. ... Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. ... David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. ... James Salter (born 1925) is an American short story writer and novelist. ... Donna Tartt (born 23 December 1963) is an American novelist. ... Aimee Bender is an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters. ... Steve Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, aka The Town Where God Will Retire. ... Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949), is an American writer, speaker, and professor. ...

External links

• The Tin House Website