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March 27, 2002 “THE IDAHO REVIEW” PUBLISHED BY BOISE STATE’S MFA PROGRAM 
Download photo: 1726 KB A haunting story of the enduring power of parental love, a story of quiet grief at the passing of a young woman’s mother, and a bitingly funny look at a writer’s struggles to write are among the topics featured in the 2002 issue of “The Idaho Review,” published by Boise State University’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. An annual collection of fiction and poetry from award-winning authors, “The Idaho Review” offers new work from Montana writers Rick Bass, author of “Where the Sea Used to Be,” and William Kittredge, author of “A Hole in the Sky.” The new issue also features fiction by Boise’s own Anthony Doerr, whose work recently appeared in The Atlantic Monthly magazine and The Paris Review. Doerr’s new book, “The Shell Collector,” was recently published by Scribners. “This year’s issue covers the gambit of human experience,” said Mitch Wieland, a professor in the MFA program at Boise State and founding editor of “The Idaho Review.” “These are stories that will stay with you long after the book is put down, stories that are comic and endearing and provocative—all in the span of 224 pages.” The volume also features works by writer Doris Betts, who received a Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a 1981 National Book Award finalist, and poet David Citino, whose book “Broken Symmetry” was named a Notable Book by the National Book Critics Circle. Writers Carol Bly, Michael Parker, Stephen Dixon and Alan Cheuse contributed short stories and essays as well as newcomers Adam Desnoyers and Alix Strauss. This latest issue also presents a poetry chapbook by Brendan Galvin, author of “Hotel Malabar.” The volume costs $10.95 and is available at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Borders Books and Music, or at the BSU Bookstore. Credit card orders can be made by dialing 1-800-992-8398, extension 1362. Founded in 1998, “The Idaho Review” has quickly earned a national reputation. Stories that have been printed in past issues have gone on to appear in “The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses,” and listed in “100 Other Distinguished Short Stories” in “the Best American Short Stories 1999.” Contact: Media contact:
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