Copper Nickel (27)

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 Post- and The City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and cotranslator of Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac)-along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of 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 The Beach at Galle Road and Remind Me Again What Happened).

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 Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffe, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.