The Cutleaf Reader: Volume One

THE CUTLEAF READER-VOLUME ONE collects short stories, essays, and poetry by some of the best established writers of our time as well as exciting work from emerging writers.

Here you will find poems by Maurice Manning, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lauren K. Alleyne, and Kari-Gunter Seymour; short stories by Joan Wickersham, Jazmin Darznik, George Singleton, Ron Rash, Douglas Bauer, and Amy Wright; and essays by Greg Bottoms, Chris Arthur, and Carter Sickels, among others.

Perfect for the college and graduate classroom as well as for readers who prefer printed editions, this collection exemplifies the best work of contemporary writers, and gives readers a chance to sample a broad variety of approaches to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in current literature. CUTLEAF (www.CutleafJournal.com) has been celebrated by the online community in its first year of publication, and now an anthology of the inaugural year of the journal is available in print form.