The Tampa Review is a literary magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 produced at The University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....

. It was founded in 1964 as the Tampa Poetry Review and changed to its current name in 1988.

The TR has been instrumenal in promoting Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

-based writers such as Lisbeth Kent, Judith Hemsshemeyer, Lola Haskins

Lola Haskins

-Life:She taught at Pacific Lutheran University.Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, The London Review of Books, Georgia Review, Southern Review.-Awards:* two fellowships from the...

, and Dionisio Martinez in the national stage. Work that has appeared in the journal has also been reprinted in The Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry

The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...

 series and has won the Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

. Nationally known writers whose work has appeared in the journal include Amina Gautier, Robert Dana

Robert Dana

-External links:Links to poems*, poetry by Robert Dana including "Heat", "A Short History of the Middle West", and "Beach Attitudes" on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor*, poetry by Robert Dana including the poem "Rapture" on Anhinga Press....

, Margaret Gibson, Peter Meinke

Peter Meinke

Peter Meinke is an American poet and author. He has published 17 books of poems and short stories. The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including 2 NEA Fellowships and 3 prizes from the Poetry Society of America...

, Enid Shomer, Jacob Appel

Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....

 and Samrat Upadhyay

Samrat Upadhyay

Samrat Upadhyay is a Nepalese writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing as well as Director of Graduate Studies at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu,...

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In 1995, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals awarded the Tampa Review its Phoenix Award for "significant editorial achievement."

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• EDITOR: Richard Mathews
• FICTION EDITORS: Audrey Colombe, Ryan Meaney, Kathleen Ochshorn
• NONFICTION EDITOR: Elizabeth Winston
• POETRY EDITORS: Cindy King, Kathryn Van Spanckeren