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Spring 2011

Cold Mountain Review (CMR) is proud to announce the release of the Spring 2011 issue.We are honored to place in your hands what we consider to be some of the most interesting and thought-provoking work from some of the nation’s best writers, artists and storytellers.

This issue of CMR features a striking full-color cover photograph by Tim Hussin as well as poetry by Melissa Scholes Young, Tony Abbott, James Doyle, Matthew Landrum, Samantha Deal, and other notable contributors. The issue also includes creative nonfiction by O’Henry award winner Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, a surreal piece of fiction by Matthew Vollmer, as well as the startling story of a woman trying to find herself in Israel by Sarah Marcus. We are also proud to showcase a captivating photo essay by Hiroshi Wantanabe.

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Non-Fiction Excerpts

She & I by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

She is order and I am impulse. She is head and I am belly. We are the same though, too. Same green eyes and dark hair. Same hands. We share shoes and books. And when we fight we are both quick to rage. She was twenty-four when I was born, and I...
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Fiction Excerpts

Holes by Matthew Vollmer

Maybe it was something in the water, or in the air above us, or in the fields in which our farmers, carrying home the burden of wet dirt in their boots, labored. Maybe it – whatever it was, we didn’t know and never would – had...
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Poetry Excerpts

In Response to a Letter from my Mother by Samantha Deal
Bing Crosby's Dorm by Chris Anderson
A Difficult Man by Kelly Jones
Hall of Pumas, Museum of Natural History by James Doyle
On Learning My Grandmother's Name (Ramona) by Jon Boisvert

Contributor Bios

TONY ABBOTT, CHRIS ANDERSON, MICHAEL BARACH, JENN BLAIR, JOHN BLAIR, JON BOISVERT, DAVID CLISBEE, HEATHER MATESICH COUSINS, SAMANTHA DEAL, ANNA CARSON DEWITT, JAMES DOYLE, PAUL FREIDINGER, JEFF HARDIN, TIM HUSSIN, JUDY IRELAND, SANDRA McMAHAN IRWIN, KATE RUTLEDGE JAFFE, KELLY JONES, CASSANDRA KIRCHER, ALYSE KNORR, MATTHEW LANDRUM, KIRSTEN SUNDBERG LUNSTRUM, SARAH MARCUS, GREG NICHOLL, R.A. PAVOLDI, PETER RICHARDSON, BRITTON SHURLEY, GEORGE SUCH, ELIZABETH HARMON THREATT, MATTHEW VOLLMER, HIROSHI WATANABE, MELISSA SCHOLES YOUNG, JESSICA YOUNG
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