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The 2012 Windy Hill Review, the 34^th edition of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha’s literary magazine, will be released at noon Monday, April 23 in the college’s library and feature a reading from poet Carrie Shipers.
 

The event is free and open to the public. UW-Waukesha is located at 1500 N. University Drive in Waukesha.
 

The 2012 edition is dedicated to Phillip Zweifel, who was part of the UW-Waukesha campus for 35 years as an English professor and associate dean before his passing Dec. 27, 2011. The staff of The Windy Hill Review pays tribute to Zweifel in the in opening pages as a “father and founder” of the magazine.
 

This year’s magazine features poems, short stories and artwork from Mary Jo Balistreri, Greg Ahrenhoerster, Katy Phillip, Joe Christenson, Mollie Nelson, Valerie Vinyard, Caitlin O’Malley, Emily Coonen, Karen Barsamian, Kathrine Yets, Matt Ahrens, Salvadore Buggeyes, Sarah Krutke, Sean Raduechel, Carlos Melendez, Paula Anderson, Jacalyn Nolan, Nicole McMahon, Brandon Griggs, Andy Lindenburg, Richard Braun, Nicole McMahon, Becca Larson, John Isely and Lydia Blaubach.
 

The editors were Owen Abbott, Ahrens, Barsamian, P.J. Carter, Mac Kenzie Meeks, Nolan, Raduechel, Steph Siemers and Taylor Thomas, and Larson and Alexander Harris served as associate editors. The cover was designed by Will Robinson and Alex Walz, and Walz also did the front cover artwork.
 

Faculty members Ahrenhoerster and Andrea Lochen served as advisors for the magazine and Barbara Reinhart and Stephanie Copoulos-Selle were art consultants. Liz Gross, marketing & communications director, was technical consultant.
 

Shipers, assistant professor of English at UW-Marshfield, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry four times and was a finalist for the White Pine Press Prize and New American Poetry Prize in 2010 and the Tampa Review Poetry Prize in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review and many other publications; she has poems forthcoming in the New England Review and Permafrost.
 

UW–Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 UW Colleges campuses with more than 2,000 students. These freshman/sophomore campuses and UW Colleges Online comprise the UW Colleges. They offer an associate of arts and sciences degree and prepare students of all ages and backgrounds for baccalaureate and professional programs. In addition, UW-Waukesha offers several collaborative bachelor’s degrees through UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh.
 

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