Congratulations to Clay Matthews, recent associate editor of the Cimarron Review (and currently still helping us as assistant editor), whose debut collection of poems, Superfecta, was published by Ghost Road Press in Spring 2008. See http://www.ghostroadpress.com for special April sale to honor National Poetry Month.

Congratulations to Nancy Pearson, whose poem, "Thought Thinking Itself" appears in the current issue, 163, and whose debut collection of poems, Two Minutes of Light, winner of the Perugia Press Book Award, will be published by Perugia Press in Sept 2008.

Congratulations to Henry Shukman, whose poems appear in the current issue, 163, and whose debut novel The Lost City was published in America by Knopf, in February 2008.

Congratulations to Erin Elizabeth Smith, whose poem, "Surviving a Biblical Flood" appeared in issue 158, and is included in her first book, The Fear of Being Found, released this February from Three Candles Press.

Congratulations to Randall Mann, whose poem, "Politics," (Issue 157) will appear in his new book, Breakfast With Thom Gunn, in 2008, from University of Chicago Press.

Congratulations to Karen Rigby (Issue 143) whose second chapbook,
Savage Machinery, was recently accepted by Finishing Line Press.

Congratulations to Laura Van Prooyen whose book, Ikblot and Altar, was recently released by Pecan Grove Press.

Congratulations to Robin Romm (Issue 159) whose story collection is forthcoming from Scribner.

Congratulations to Glen Pourciau (Issue 157) whose collection, Invite, received the 2008 Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Congratulations to Grace Schulman whose poem, "Waves," (Issue 157) was chosen for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses (2008 edition).

Congratulations to Noah Michelson, whose poem, "Valentine" (Issue 159) will appear in The Best American Erotic Poetry from 1800 to the Present forthcoming from Scribner in 2008.

Congratulations to Wade Bentley, whose poem, “Fortune,” (Issue 157) has been selected for Best New Poets 2007.

Congratulations to Don Waters (Issue 159) whose story collection, Desert Gothic, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His book is forthcoming from The University of Iowa Press.

Congratulations to Blair Oliver, whose short story, "Precious Metals" (Issue 152) leads off his newly published collection, entitled Last Call, from World Audience, Inc.

Congratulations to Dorene O'Brien (Issue 153) whose short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, appeared in June 2007 from Wayne State University Press.

Congratulations to Gabriel Spera (Issue 160) for the reprint of his poem, "Masterful" on Poetry Daily, September 28, 2007.

Congratulations to Pamela Gemin (Issue 159) for the reprint of her poem, "Dean Walters' Dream" on Poetry Daily, July 15, 2007.

Congratulations to Mike White (Issue 158) for the reprint of his poem, "Forest" on Poetry Daily on March 1, 2007.

Congratulations to the following contributors to the Cimarron Review for the recent reprint of their poems on Verse Daily:

• Nicole Walker - "Hooked and Crooked" (Issue 162) Feb. 14, 2008
• Yerra Sugarman - "One Body" (Issue 162) Feb. 13, 2008
• Lynn Levin - "To the Future" (Issue 161) Dec. 8, 2007
• Carrie Fountain - "Starting Small" (Issue 160)-Sept. 6, 2007
• Sharon Black- "I Want to Live in a Paperhouse"-(Issue 160)-September 5, 2007
• Patty Seyburn - "The Pitch" (Issue 160)-September 4, 2007
• Noah Michelson - "In My Next Life" (Issue 159) - July 29, 2007
• Richard Lyons - "Studies for a Portrait of a Father and Son" (Issue 159)- July 27, 2007

Congratulations to Steve Fellner (Issues 157, 143, 136), whose manuscript recently won the Third Annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize judged by Denise Duhamel, and will be published next year.

Congratulations to Alex Grant (Issue 151), whose 2006 Randall Jarrell Prize-winning chapbook, Chains & Mirrors, has been awarded the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Prize. This award is given annually by the Poetry Council of North Carolina to honor the best book of poetry by a North Carolina poet in the previous year.

Scott Miles (Issue 154) recently published a book entitled The Best Underground Fiction with contributors such as Irvine Welsh, Elizabeth Crane, John McNally, Steve Almond, Sam Lipsyte and more. Check it out here.

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