Chiron Review was founded by Michael Hathaway in Great Bend, Kansas, February, 1982, who did final editing, typesetting, paste-up and distribution. Assistant editor was Michael's mother, Jane Hathaway (1936-2000) who helped with correspondence, distribution and coordinating contests. Contributing editors were Gerald Locklin (poetry), Raphael Zepeda and John Brantingham (fiction) and Jules Smith. The literary journal started out as The Kindred Spirit and became Chiron Review as of Issue 18, Spring, 1989. There were 81 issues published between 1982 and Dec., 2005, when the magazine folded. Writers published within its pages include William Stafford, Leslea Newman, Erskine Caldwell, Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Felice Picano, Charles Plymell, Marge Piercy, Jewel, Charles Henri-Ford, Janice Eidus, Lorri Jackson, Antler, Adrian C. Louis, Fred Voss, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jack Micheline, Robert Peters, Ruth Moon Kempher, Virginia Love Long, Gypsy Lou Webb and many others. Although Chiron Review published many well-known writers, its focus was on up-and-coming new writers and it never faltered from its No. 1 Guideline: No Taboos. Although the quarterly magazine has folded, occasional digest-sized issues are planned whenever the editor takes a notion.
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