For more than two decades, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published well-known and emerging writers working in the brief essay form. Though still committed to the mission of publishing new and emerging writers, Brevity has been fortunate over the years to include the work of Pulitzer prize winners, NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, The Netherlands, and Japan. Authors published in Brevity include Diane Seuss, Roxane Gay, Deesha Philyaw, Daisy Hernandez, Brenda Miller, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Abigail Thomas, Lia Purpura, Heather Sellers, Matthew Gavin Frank, Lee Martin, Rebecca McClanahan, Barbara Hurd, Bret Lott, Ira Sukrungruang, Rigoberto González, and Jenny Boully.

Work from Brevity has been anthologized and reprinted in venues including Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Utne Reader, the Short Takes anthology, Best American Essays, and many recent writing textbooks.

Over the past year Brevity drew more than 13,000 unique visitors per month, while the Blog, an affiliated sister publication with its own editorial staff, currently has more than 50,000 followers.

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BREVITY STAFF

Founding Editor Emeritus: Dinty W. Moore

Editor: Zoë Bossiere

Assistant Managing Editor: Vincent Convertito

Assistant Editors: Aggie Stewart, Ally Jones, Alyssa Toohey, Amanda McGrew, Angelique Tung, Anna Chotlos, Beth Tillman, Christopher McArdle, Clarissa Bannor, Harmony Hazard, Isabella Castelo, Jackie Malloy, Jennifer Canavan, Jessica Petrow-Cohen, Jessica Vieira, Jill Littig, Joan Carty, Joanne Stiles, Kaitlyn Tatulli, Kathleen Nash, Kimberly McElhatten, Lisa Thornell, Monica Dobson, Morgan Rose-Marie, Nancy Chapple, Natalie Goh, Rachel Baila, Rich Howard, Sarah McNamara, Scott McLean, Susan Lerner, Tom Laaser

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