Congratulations to Brenden Mathews, Marianne Boruch, Martha Silano, Christie Hodgen, and Micah Riecker for their accomplishments with short stories and poetry.

Congratulations to Brendan Mathews, whose story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer” (Summer 2009 issue) will appear in Best American Short Stories.

as well as

Marianne Boruch and Martha Silano, whose poems “The Doctor” and “Love” (Winter 2007 and Summer 2008 issues) have been selected for Best American Poetry.

and in addition

Christie Hodgen and Micah Riecker, whose short fiction “Bedtime Stories for the Middle-Aged” and “The Drowned Girl” (Summer 2009 and Winter 2010 issues) will appear in New Stories from the Midwest.