Rick Moody; Media Credit: Emma Dodge Hanson

Highlights from the February 2003 issue

The first issue of the Gingko Tree Review was released February 20, 2003. Here are some highlighted authors featured in this issue.

Rick Moody
Featured work: Against Cool, essay

Rick Moody has published three novels (Garden State, The Ice Storm and Purple America); two short story collections (The Ring of the Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology); and a book of nonfiction, The Black Veil. His awards include the Pushcart Prize Editor's Choice Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

For more information about Rick Moody, visit Authors on the Web.

Ioanna Carlsen
Featured work: poetry, including Breath, Luck and Underwater Room

The winner of Glimmer Train's Poetry Open and a contributor to Billy Collins' Poetry 180, Ioanna Carlsen's poems and stories have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Café Solo, Chelsea, The Quarterly, Field, Apalachee Quarterly, The Marlboro Review, Columbia, Solo and many other literary magazines.

Read Carlsen's poem Infanta at Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.

Roy Kesey
Featured work: Probably Somewhere, fiction

Roy Kesey lives with his wife and children in Lima, Peru. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Nimrod and Quarterly West, among others, and his monody in honor of Rita Hipnell was performed at the Teatro Zaniah in Lima last December.

Read an excerpt from Kesey's as-yet unpublished novel Shards at Pig Iron Malt.