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| Discipline | Literature |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Boris Dralyuk |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1956–present |
| Publisher | University of Tulsa (United States) |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Nimrod Int. J. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0029-053X |
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The Nimrod International Journal is a literary journal established in 1956 that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. [1]
The journal was established in 1956 by student at the University of Tulsa, and its first editor-in-chief was James Land Jones. The journal began as a thrice-yearly publication, but since 1970, it has been published twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. [2]
Notable contributors include Sue Monk Kidd, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gish Jen, Natalie Diaz, and Ange Mlinko, among others. [3]
Stories from the journal have been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays , and have won the O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize anthologies, among others.
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Boris Dralyuk is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor and translator. He obtained his high school degree from Fairfax High School and his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. He has taught Russian literature at his alma mater and at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was executive editor and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books from 2016 to 2022 and the managing editor of Cardinal Points from 2016 to 2022. In 2024 he was named the editor-in-chief of Nimrod International Journal.
