Literary scholar Ann Ronald gathers her most notable published essays about Nevada, environmental writing, and Western American literature in one volume.... more

John Muir, Mary Austin, and Gary Snyder are perhaps best known for their passionate connection to specific California ecological regions—Muir’s Sierra Nevada “Range of Light,” Austin’s southern “Land of Little Rain,” and Snyder’s “Kitkitdizze” region of the north.... more

In her first full-length poetry collection, Catherine French reveals a curiosity about the complexities of the quotidian and a keen sensitivity to the strangeness and magic that lie within all our human experiences, from learning the shapes of the alphabet, realizing “how they failed in that attempt to join / the physical and abstract, how each sound / fell short of the world,” to watching the death of a horse, its “beauty sent back / through the long funnel / to abstraction.... more

An important quarterly for West Coast writers, ZYZZYVA joins an elite handful of literary magazines in celebrating a tenth anniversary.... more