Named after the Pine Hills neighborhood of Albany, NY, Pine Hills Review publishes irreverent, fun, and surprising work that does something new. Our editors look for artful, honest, and compelling writing from new and established writers. We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry we all as visual art, interviews, and hybrid cross-genre work.
Pine Hills Review remains committed to creating an inclusive space for all writers from all backgrounds and all identities. We acknowledge that our editorial points of view are informed by our own privileges and biases, and seek to redress inequities in the literary worlds and challenge ourselves and power structures by publishing underrepresented voices more fully. Art may not change the world, but it can certainly try to set an example.
Our history is varied. Established in 2014 in association with The College of Saint Rose as part of its M.F.A. in creative writing program, Pine Hills Review was founded by Daniel Nester and Sarah Michelle Sherman. After the M.F.A. program was discontinued, Pine Hills Review began a second iteration in 2019 as an independent journal.
Since the closure of the colle in June 2024, Pine Hills Review (ISSN 2470-8321) continues as a wholly independent and unaffiliated literary journal. We welcome interest from others to help edit the journal as well.
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Alex J. Tunney (editor; he/him) is a writer somewhere in downstate New York. His writing has been published in the Lambda Literary Review, The Rumpus, Complete Sentence, The Under Review and The Inquisitive Eater. You can keep up with him on Instagram at @axelturner.
Daniel Nester (editor; he/him) is the author most recently of Harsh Realm: My 1990s. His other books include Shader, How to Be Inappropriate, and God Save My Queen I and II. For 19 years, he was a professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Subscribe to his Substack.
Samantha Zimmerman (editor; she/her) is an all-over-the-place poet with a passion for all things experimental and confessional. Her work has been featured in Sledgehammer Lit, Bullshit Lit, Discretionary Love Magazine, BarBar Lit, and The Afterpast Review. You can keep up with her on Twitter/X @samthezim.
Editors Emerita
Kale Loayza-Ladcani, Laura Knowlton, Samantha Ryan, Jasmine Bates, Alex Stephenson, Danni Beltran, Regina Rosenfeld, Shawn Berman, Tori Felter, Michelle Lin, Taylor Casey, Sunny Leigh, Jennifer Austin, Thomas Santelli, Samson Dikeman, Alyssa Cohorn, Zelest Caraballo, Sarah Michelle Sherman (founding editor)
Logo design by Lesia Gribbin and Kim Szkudlarek
Image: “Peaches & Herb at Flow Chart Foundation. Hudson, NY”
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