It was with great sadness that we learned about the death of renown neurologist Oliver Sacks last month. About a decade ago we published a reprint of one of his most famous essays in North Dakota Quarterly. “To See And Not To See” originally appeared in the May 10, 1993 issue of The
Things continue to change here at North Dakota Quarterly! This week, we’re excited to welcome Gilad Elbom as the Quarterly‘s new fiction editor. Gilad Elbom is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and the University of North Dakota. His
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Readers familiar with NDQ will notice a change in layout in this issue. Graphic Design Intern Dana Schumann “freshened” up the page format with two columns, Adobe Garamond Pro typeface, and a cleaner, leaner title-author heading. We likely will make other changes, and we would really like to hear from you about
As we just barely catch the tail-end of National Poetry Month, we thought it might be a good idea to sit down with Heidi Czerwiec, our current poetry editor to discuss her aims and ideas for the future of the poetry section of the journal. Heidi is a poet, essayist,
Joseph Rathgeber is an author, poet, and high school English teacher from New Jersey. His story, “Not Black: An Education,” appeared in Volume 77.1 Diversity and Its Discontents of North Dakota Quarterly. His debut story collection The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories was published in 2014 by
William Caraher is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota. His contribution to NDQ Volume 80.2 titled “Slow Archaeology” studies the application of the slow movement to his professional field. Caraher’s blog, The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, features his “continued musings on
D’Arcy Fallon is the author of “Camp Wonder,” an essay featured in North Dakota Quarterly Volume 80.2. The essay explores the author’s journey into discovering her grandparents’ letters to one another, along with her own personal travel to the place that their story took place; Leadville, Colorado. D’Arcy was very enthusiastic
James Knisely is the author of “Riding the Storm,” an essay featured in North Dakota Quarterly Volume 80.1. The essay talks about the author’s experience as a fire lookout and compares them to those of another author/fire lookout, Jack Kerouac. Knisely was kind enough to answer a few questions about the essay
John Picard is the author of “At the Creation Museum,” an essay featured in North Dakota Quarterly Volume 80.1. In it, he talks about his experiences as a “heathen” in a family of fundamentalist Christians. Picard was kind enough to answer a few questions for NDQ’s series of author interviews. In “At the Creation
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