The summer 2009 issue of Salamander, a literary journal edited by English Professor Jennifer Barber and published at Suffolk University, has been released.

It features:

• New poetry of depth and range by Chase Twichell, Sophie Cabot Black, Stephen Knauth, Maura Stanton, Linda Zisquit, and Ellen Kaufman

• A conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones

• Compelling fiction by Geoff Kronik, Siobhan Fallon, Aaron Hellem, and Irish writer Christine Dwyer Hickey

• “Sparrow Sisters,” the cover painting, by Massachusetts-based artist Kaetlyn Wilcox

Salamander combines the best new work by writers now reaching artistic maturity with exciting new work by established writers.