Exciting/Amazing/Incredible News: Issue 54 is finally here! What’s in issue 54?! How about stories from Richard Katrovas, Pinckney Benedict, Gary Finke, Michael Martone and Jill Stukenberg; poetry by Boyer Rickel, Megan Gannon, Thomas Hawks and Sawako Nakayasu; interviews with Jim Shepard and Joshua Ferris; and the winners of our 2008 Short Short Fiction Contest!

It arrived today, in bulky boxes, and in a short while it should be rolling across the country to our subscribers. In the meantime, you can start a subscription by sending 14 bucks for one year (2 issues), 26 bucks for two years (4 issues), or just 8 bucks for this issue, to Sonora Review/ Subscriptions/ Department of English/ University of Arizona/ Tucson, AZ 85721. We know, you’re thinking, “What a drag, they can’t just take electronic subscriptions? Why no paypal account? Are they in the dark ages?” The truth is, we’re a student run lit mag–oldest in the country if we don’t say so ourselves–without many of the technological resources that most larger, well-funded lit mags have. We still, though, run a pretty damn good magazine if we say so ourselves, and this issue is a testament to the hard work and sweat of our former EICs, Amy Knight and PR Griffis, in addition to their section editors and fabulous readers.