Summer 2013

Garret Keizer on loving his father-in-law Tess Taylor on being a Jefferson descendant Benjamin Rachlin on an iconoclastic beekeeper Audrey Niffenegger on becoming an artist Fiction by Ann Beattie, Brendan Mathews, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tyler Stiem Poetry by Sandra Beasley, Dexter L. Booth, Kevin Hart, Hailey Leithauser, and Tess Taylor
Summer 2013

Volume 89, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2013 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Memoir 
Photography 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Editor's Desk 
VQR Vault 

Contributor Profiles

Lauren Markham is an award-winning writer based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Crown, 2017), A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Riverhead, 2024), and Immemorial (Transit, 2025). She is a contributing editor at VQR. 

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife (2004) and Her Fearful Symmetry (2009). She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, and she is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her current projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, choreographed by Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet. Her VQR essay is excerpted from Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger (powerHouse Books, 2013), which accompanies her 239-​piece exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, from June to November 2013.

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