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Kestrel Writer Wins PEN/America Award Kestrel is happy to announce that Stanley Patrick Stocker’s short story “The List,” which appeared in Kestrel 42, was chosen as a winner of the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. “The List” was Stocker’s first published short story. Congratulations, Stan!
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The Homes We Build by Kaitlyn Hunter

Cathy Barber

Michael Garcia Bertrand

John Blair

Ace Boggess

Jonathan Bracker

Rick Campbell

Marisa P. Clark

Jim Daniels

Noah Davis

Ruth Dickey

K. Uwe Dunn

Amanda Hartzell

Hayley Harvey

William Heath

Max Heinegg

Cynthia Hogue

Kaitlyn Hunter

Julia Kastner

Paul Kopp

Susan Manchin

Hannah Marshall

Tina Morris

Derek N. Otsuji

Christine Potter

Bonnie Proudfoot

Andrew Michael Roberts

Anna Egan Smucker

Jason Tandon

George Thomas

Matthew Tuckner

Sara Moore Wagner

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Best American

Kestrel is excited to announce Best American Essay nominees: K. Uwe Dunn for “Fox News with Lou” and Gabriel Sage for “In Full Detail.”

We excited to announce a new feature to our home page. Each month we will showcase a Kestrel contributor's work under a special Featured Contributors tab at the top of the home page. Our first featured contributor is Sara Moore Wagner.

Wagner is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and the author of the chapbooks Tumbling After (forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks 2021) and Hooked Through (2017). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, Third Coast, Poet Lore, and Waxwing, among others. She has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net. Find her at _{https://www.saramoorewagner.com/}

Enjoy Wagner's poem "Hardwired"!