MAKE X [Paperback]

MAKE Xcollects memorable work published throughout the last ten years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors,MAKE Xhonors a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.

Alejandro Almanza, Art Portfolio Editor, is based in New York and Mexico City. He earned a BFA from University of Texas at El Paso, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds and MFA from Hunter College.

Daniel Borzutzky, Intercambio Poetry Editor, is a Chicago-based author and translator. Of Chilean heritage, Daniel has published the collection of fiction Arbitrary Tales (2005), the poetry chapbook Failure in the Imagination (2007), and two full-length volumes of poetry, The Ecstasy of Capitulation (2007) and The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011). 

Joel Craig, Poetry Editor, is a Chicago-based graphic designer. Joel co-founded and curates the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago and is the author of the poetry collectionWhite House(2012.)

Sarah Dodsonis a co-founder of MAKE Literary Productions and is the managing editor ofPoetry Magazinein Chicago.

Kamilah Foreman, Fiction Editor, is based in New York, where she is Senior Editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kamilah was previously an editor at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Joshua Hauth, Art Director, owns and operates the Chicago-based graphic design company Hauthwares. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago.

Sarah Kramer, Art Portfolio Editor and Copy Editor/Proofreader, is based in Chicago. She is Publications Director at the architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang and has also worked on publications folS,