THE COACHELLA REVIEW
WINTER 2025

 

Joshua St. Claire
Poetry | She Closes Her Eyes. She Opens Her Eyes.

Lanay Griessner
Fiction | Owen Kills the Monster

Peter Munro
Poetry | Wishbones Of Wild Geese

Kasimma
Nonfiction | Going to America

Ruiyan Zhu
Poetry | Two Poems

Matthew Moore
Drama | Do Better, Home Depot

Daniel Jaffe
Fiction | The Stack of Letters

Ryan Harper
Poetry | Hey Oracle—Tell Me About John Henry

Kirby Wright
Nonfiction | Boulder

R. Jerome Michael
Poetry | Two Poems

Kevin T. Morales
Interview | TCR Talks with Susan Straight, author of Sacrament

Abdulmueed Balogun
Poetry | Two Poems

Maggie Cregan
Drama | Line Cooks Like Baby Birds

John Horvath
Poetry | Dresden in the Morning

Erin Mayes
Fiction | Ignition

Rebecca Pyle
Poetry | Two Poems

Colleen Kearney Rich
Fiction | Let It Go

Shara Karasic
Nonfiction | City of Industry

Gemma Cooper-Novak
Poetry | Birdsong

Elizabeth Bolton
Nonfiction | Imaginary Friends

 

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Winter 2025 Issue

Executive Editor: Yennie Cheung

Managing Editor: Toby LaPlant
Fiction Editors: Betty Fall, Eric Martin 
Nonfiction Editor: Theo Skinner
Poetry Editors: Mason Martin, Sophie Ann Hinkson
Drama Editor: Pallas M. Gutierrez
Associate Editors: Kyle Murphy, Sydney Abrahahm, Chris Doshier, Justy Kosek, Jessica Ribera

TCR Daily
Blog Editor: Melinda Gordon Blum
Voice to Books Editors: Cambria Matlow, Angelo A. Williams

Lead Copy Editor
Julia Watson

 

The Coachella Review is a literary arts journal published by the University of California, Riverside–Palm Desert Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.