New Works Review

		New Works Review is proud to present the inaugural issue of our redesigned PDF Edition, the cover of which you can see at the right-hand side of this page. The PDF Edition features 68 pages of fiction, essays, poetry and commentary we've gathered during this quarter. Some of this material can be found within these online pages, while other pieces are excerpted online and available in their entirety within the PDF's pages. This first issue of the PDF Edition is available free for you to download. Just right click the link below and select "Save As," then choose a place on your computer to store the file. We hope to launch the permanent version of this PDF Edition in July as a subscription download. Any comments you may have, including suggestions on what price you'd be willing to pay per issue, can be emailed directly to Jonathan Sanders, New Works Review's new Editor-in-Chief, at kroessman@gmail.com.Any money raised through the sales of the PDF Edition will go directly toward such things as paying our contributors, something we've been unable to do to this point. Again, thanks for reading, and enjoy! New Works Review - Spring 2008 PDF Edition
	Author Interviews
	Susan Swetnam was raised in Philadelphia; she earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Delaware and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Scholar. She has been teaching literature and writing at Idaho State University since 1979. She has published several books and numerous scholarly articles about Intermountain West literature and culture in addition to her creative work, and her freelance articles have appeared in a variety of national, regional, and little magazines, including Gourmet, Mademoiselle, and Journal of the West. Her first collection of creative nonfiction, Home Mountains: Reflections from a Western Middle Age (Washington State University Press, 2000) won an Idaho Library Association prize. Her second, a book of personal essays for teachers based loosely (and sometimes irreverently) on the lives of Catholic saints (My Best Teachers Were Saints, Loyola, Chicago, 2007), set a Loyola Press conference record in April 2006, selling 800 copies in two days. She has been a Writer in Residence with Washington State’s Espy Foundation. Currently she is in the last stages of preparing a narrative manuscript about early widowhood, Beginner’s Mind, under the direction of an agent. She also has a novel in progress, and she can see where the next six books are coming from. She is the widow of poet and distinguished teacher Ford Swetnam. Susan is also the featured writer for this issue of New Works Review. Read Susan's Interview.
	Rebecca Seiferle was awarded a Poetry Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in 2004. Her fourth poetry collection, Wild Tongue (Copper Canyon, 2007), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her previous collection, Bitters (Copper Canyon, 2001), won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart prize. Her translation of César Vallejo’s The Black Heralds was published in 2003 by Copper Canyon Press, and translations of several Cuban poets are forthcoming in The Entire Island, edited by Mark Weiss (University of California Press, 2009). She is the featured poet for this issue of New Works Review. Read Rebecca's Interview.