The Southern Review literary journal appoints Sacha Idell as new coeditor and prose editor

The following is from a press release by LSU Press.

LSU Press and The Southern Review announced the appointment of Sacha Idell as the new coeditor and prose editor for the literary journal. Originally from Northern California, Idell has called both Japan and New York home before earning his MFA from the University of Arkansas where he was a Walton Fellow and a fiction editor for The Arkansas International.

Idell’s own writing has appeared in many national publications including the Chicago Tribune, New England Review, and Ploughshares, while his translations of Japanese writers like Kyusaku Yumeno and Toshiro Sasaki can be found in Asymptote and The Literary Review. He was a 2018 finalist for the Lamar York Prize for fiction with work published or forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Saturday Evening Post, and Gulf Coast.

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