Florida Review

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The Florida Review
Editor Jeanne M. Leiby
Categories Literature, Arts, Social issues, Popular Culture
Frequency 2 per year
First issue 1972
Country United States
Website flreview.com

The Florida Review is a national, non-profit literary journal that has been put out twice yearly by the University of Central Florida since 1972. Its artistic mission is to publish the best poetry and prose written by the world’s most exciting emerging and establish writers. They have published important writers, such as David Foster Wallace, Tony Early, and Tom Chiarella before they went on to become regular contributors to The New Yorker, Harper's and The Atlantic.

The magazine has featured fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays by such internationally renowned writers as Margaret Atwood, William Trowbridge, Stephen Dixon, Grace Paley, Lorrie Moore, Mark Doty, and Tobias Wolff. Florida writers are also represented, with a notable and diverse list including Sylvia Curbello, Bob Shacochis, Philip F. Deaver, Enid Shomer, Virgil Suárez and many others.

The current staff includes: Jeanne M. Leiby, Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor; Mark Pursell, Poetry Editor; Susan Fallows, Nonfiction Editor and Business Manager; Nathan Holic, Comics Editor; Mike Carlson, Managing Editor; and Kelly Hould, Assistant Managing Editor.