Steve Wolverton ('07 Ph.D.), associate professor of geography, and former UNT English lecturer David Taylor, now a visiting assistant professor at Stony Brook University, co-edited Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde, which focuses on the region in Colorado and Utah known for its archaeology and indigenous population.

English professor B.H. Fairchild released The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems, a collection of poems he wrote throughout his career. Fairchild says it was difficult to choose the poems, but he was surprised by how proud he was by the finished book.

Kelly Wisecup, assistant professor of English, explores how conversations about illness and healing among European colonists, Native Americans and New World Africans influenced colonial writing in her book Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures.

Established in 1990 at UNT, the biannual American Literary Review is a showcase of diverse genres and styles. The finest crafted stories, essays and poems are selected from upwards of 800 general entries each year submitted from around the country, with additional entries received for the annual short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry contests.