Jennings, Brittany

Meet Kerry James Evans: Evans is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. The recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship and a Walter … Read more

Meet Higa: Jeffrey J. Higa is the author of Calabash Stories, which won the Robert C. Jones Prize, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His short story, “The Shadow Artist,” was a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize and received an honorable mention in the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize … Read more

Meet Emma Aylor, the author of Close Red Water (forthcoming October 2023), selected by Tina Chang as winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, the Yale Review Online, North American Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and she received Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize … Read more

Meet Jenny Irish: Originally from Maine, Jenny Irish has graduate degrees in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin and Arizona State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at ASU. She is the author of three books including Tooth Box, I Am Faithful and Common Ancestor. Hear Irish read her … Read more

Willow Springs magazine will be having a virtual release party this Saturday, March 4th at 6pm PST! Join us for exclusive readings from issue 91 authors, including: Heikki Huotari, Emma Aylor, Jenny Irish, Jeffrey J. Higa, Kerry James Evans, Henrietta Goodman, Madison Jozefiak, Marc Vincenz, Gary Fincke, Paul Farwell, David Keplinger, and Bruce Bond. The … Read more