An annual literary journal founded in 1998,
The Idaho Review has had two stories selected for reprint in
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, one story and one poem reprinted in
The Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South, plus three stories listed in
"One Hundred Other Distinguished Short Stories" in
The Best American Short Stories, and four stories earning "Special Mention" in
The Pushcart Prize. The journal has won 2003 and 2004 grants from the NEA, and has published writers such as Ann Beattie, Richard Bausch, Joy Williams and Rick Bass.
Editor
Mitch Wieland holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where he served as fiction editor of
Black Warrior Review. His book of short stories, GOD'S DOGS, will soon be released by SMU Press. His novel,
Willy Slater's Lane (SMU Press, 1996), received starred reviews in
Publisher's Weekly and Booklist, and was optioned for a film. His short stories have appeared in
The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, StoryQuarterly, and numerous other journals. An Associate Professor of English, he is a former director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and founding editor of
The Idaho Review. He is the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from The Idaho Commission on the Arts and a Faculty Research Grant.
Fiction Editor
Brady Udall is the recipient of many awards and fellowships and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His widely anthologized stories and non-fiction have been published in journals and magazines such as Story, Esquire, GQ and The Paris Review. He is the author of a short story collection, Letting Loose the Hounds, and a novel, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, which was an international bestseller and translated into more than twenty languages. He teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.
Assistant Editor
Brad Cook is an MFA student in Fiction at Boise State University, and the present Assistant Editor
Previous Assistant Editors
| Volume VIX | Patti Knox, Brad Cook |
| Volumes VII, VIII | Patti Knox |
| Volumes V, VI | Malia E. Collins |
| Volumes III, IV | Alex Kiesig |
| Volume II | Tamara Shores |
| Volume I | Quinn Pritchard |
Previous Assistant Fiction Editors
| Volume VI | Alan Heathcock |
| Patti Knox |
