Founded in 1995 by graduate students of the Western Michigan University English department, Third Coast is one of the nation’s premier literary magazines—and one of only a handful of nationally distributed literary magazines to regularly include four genres. Third Coast consistently publishes excellent, and often award-winning, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and drama.

In the past two years, two published stories and two poems have been chosen to appear in the O Henry Award Series, The Pushcart Prize Series, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri.

Staff

Editor: Emily J. Stinson

Managing Editors: Elizabyth Hiscox, Scott Bade

Drama Editor: Mickey Moses

Fiction Editors: Brandon Jennings, Andy Wickenden

Nonfiction Editor: Elissa Cahn

Poetry Editors: Krystal Howard, Traci Brimhall

Advisory Editors: Jay Nicorvo, Steve Feffer, Nancy Eimers, Jaimy Gordon, Arnie Johnston, 
Richard Katrovas, Thisbe Nissen, and William Olsen