Texas Tech University

Ryan Burkhart (MFA in Printmaking, 2000) has been named the new Arts Editor for the Southern Review,  which is published at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad, and with special interest in southern culture and history. Poems and fiction are selected with careful attention to craftsmanship and technique and to the seriousness of the subject matter. It is the 2nd oldest literary journal in the United States. Although the Southern Review has been publishing images by contemporary artists for some time, Ryan Burkhart is the first Arts Editor to be named by the journal.