FENCE


			A Biannual Journal of Poetry, Fiction, Art and Criticism “. . . our most exciting magazine.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard

	About the Institute History What We Do Who We Are Maps & Directions Agent/Guest Information Summary of Events Programs Visiting Writers Series Classic Film Series Community Writers Workshops NYS Summer Writers Institute NYS Summer Young Writers Institute Authors Theatre NYS Author & Poet Awards Publications Kevin's Film Notes Writers Online Magazine Young Voices: Summer Young Writers Anthology FENCE Blog NYS Writers Institute Home Page		Fall/Winter 2009-10 The University at Albany Welcomes FENCE In March 2007, the New York State Writers Institute proudly announced a new partnership with Fence, a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, criticism, and art, and Fence Books, a literary press publishing fiction, poetry, and critical texts. Both are programs of the nonprofit organization Fence Magazine, Incorporated. “It is my great joy to bring Fence into its second life, its next nine years, with a correlative sense of marshaled resources, of unimpeded energies, of providence regained. For in the nearby Capital Region of Upstate New York stands a temple of learning called the University at Albany, and it is to this institution that Fence happily plights its troth.” — Rebecca Wolff, Editor and Publisher of Fence “As the most provocative and inclusive of our country’s first-rank literary journals,Fence has found an ideal partner in the New York State Writers Institute and theUniversity at Albany. . . . With the backing of the Institute and the University. . ., Fence will come into even greater bloom, thereby precisely fulfilling the mandate of the Institute, which is to encourage, support, and promote contemporary writing.This seems to me like a perfect fit.” — Peter Straub, novelist and longtime Fence Board member “Fence has become an essential pillar of the literary community and the affiliation with the Writers Institute is a wonderful way for it to continue to offer a place for writers whose work sits at the far edge of innovation as well as within known forms.” — Bill Clegg, literary agent at William Morris and longtime Fence Board member “The joining of Fence and the Institute is a ‘marriage of true minds,’ a literary love of shared intention and hope. — Lynne Tillman, Fence fiction editor and UAlbany Professor of English CONTACT INFORMATION Science Library, SL 320 \| University at Albany, NY 12222 \| Phone 518-591-8162 Fax 518-442-5621 \| email [email protected]

	EDITOR Rebecca Wolff POETRY EDITORS Caroline Crumpacker Katy Lederer Charles Valle Max Winter FICTION EDITOR Lynne Tillman ASSOCIATE FICITION EDITORS Miles Greaves Aaron Hawn Adam Reed Jamie Rebecca Schwartz NON FICTION EDITOR Jason Zuzga WEB DESIGN Ira Sher BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anne Carson Bill Clegg Annie Dillard Donald Faulkner Jonathan Galassi Susie Leness Gilbert Thomas Healy Brenda Hillman Katy Lederer Jonathan Lethem Harry Mathews Robert Polito Christopher Stackhouse Peter Straub Marjorie Welish Rebecca Wolff