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, nonfiction, and drama.

In the past several years, stories published in Third Coast have gone on to appear in the O. Henry Award Series, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. Poetry first featured in the journal has been selected for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize Series.

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Editor in Chief: Latifa Ayad

Managing Editor: Sophia Khan

Fiction Editors: Daniel Alexander, Emilie Helmbold, and Joseph Niduaza

Creative Nonfiction Editor: Claire Robbins

Poetry Editors: Emily Daniel and Alyssa Start

Drama Editor: Kristen Field

Layout Editor: David Yarnall

Readers: Hannah Arvanigian, Christopher Colegrove, Lauren Everhart-Deckard, Tristan Heibel, Simon Hopkins, Kat Karolyi, Sofia Méndez Ramírez, Vika Pashby, Amanda Scott, and Justin Timmerman

Interns: Amanda Gatewood, Kayla Lambert, Kat Linkous, Taylor Mroz, Corinne Perry, and Zoe Presnal

Faculty Advisor: Thisbe Nissen