Fiction and poetry from the Great Lakes region
Kate Watt joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she’s an assistant teaching professor. You’ll find her work in a variety …
Jimmy Hollenbeck joined the Great Lakes Review team as a fiction editor in February 2020. A Michigan native, Jimmy holds a Master’s degree in English language and literature from Central Michigan University and studied film and creative writing there as …
Dom Fonce joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. He also serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Volney Road Review, founded in 2018, and you can find his work in numerous literary magazines, journals, and …
Q&A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski (pictured above at a Dunkirk social club) as he romanticizes and sometimes denigrates: Chris Paul; sarcasm’s hidden kindness; self-destruction as research; necessary meanness in food writing; and thoughts of his father, dead at 39 …
A young woman in the big city meets a fella, they fall in love and get married. It sounds like a familiar formula. But the guy happens to live on a boat. And we’re not talking like the quirky dude who …
Michigan doesn’t have an official, state-supported poet laureate. But a grassroots campaign has created a position in the Upper Peninsula. Andrea Scarpino was recently named the poet laureate of the U.P. for 2015-2017. She succeeds Russell Thorburn, the first laureate …
INTERVIEW BY MEREDITH COUNTS When I talked with poet Julie Babcock this winter she was finishing the semester teaching at the University of Michigan, excited about starting a new journal, and enjoying the events surrounding the November 2014 release of Autoplay (MG …
Ellen Airgood’s 2012 novel South of Superior has come in at numerous slots on the Michigan bestseller list over the past few months. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? When I started writing South …
Tobin Buhk is at #14 on the Michigan bestseller list for his true crime book Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids details …
