Publisher: Rutgers University
Executive Editor: J.T. Barbarese
Senior Associate Editors: Lauren Grodstein, Jayne
Ann Philips, Lisa Zeidner
Senior Contributing Editor: M.M.M. Hayes
Managing Editor: Zac Roesch
Editorial Assistants: Diego Baez, Matt Charles,
Caleb Das, Jonathan Deane, Therese Halscheid, Elizabeth Licorish,
Erika Maxwell, Jay McKeen, Moiria Moody, Scott Oliver, Julie Strasser,
Jeannete Tryon.
Advisory Board: Howard Marchitello, Tyler Hoffman
Founding Editors: Pam Painter, Tom Bracken, F.R.
Katz, Thalia Selz, and Delores Weinberg.
STORYQUARTERLY, founded in 1975, is an independent magazine of the
short story now published by Rutgers University and located at Rutgers-Camden,
in Camden, NJ. All correspondence should be sent to the editors at
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The Department of English, Rutgers University, 311 N. Fifth Street,
Camden, NJ. We welcome short story submissions year around but all
submissions must be made online, through our submissions portal at
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expressed herein are not necessarily those of the editors. For subscriptions,
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ISBN: 2009: 0-9722444-7-6
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