Issue 30 includes:
Fiction by Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy contributor Helena Bell, Vincent Czyz, Maureen Langloss, and Lucas Southworth.
Nonfiction by NEA and Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, death row inmate and essayist Lyle May, Bill Marsh, and Lesley Wheeler.
Poetry by NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bruce Bond, and Jenny Browne; PEN Discovery Award winner Andrea Cohen; Gregory O¿Donogue International Prize winner Shangyang Fang; MacArthur ¿Genius¿ Edward Hirsch; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Troy Jollimore; Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock; Rilke Prize winner David Keplinger; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Erika Meitner; Iowa Prize winner Alicia Mountain; Best New Poets contributor Shakthi Shrima, and many others.
Translation Folios featuring short fiction by Bangladeshi writer Ruma Modak (trans. Shabnam Nadiya), and poetry by Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch (trans. Donnna Spruijt-Metz), Polish poet Tomasz Ró¿ycki (trans. Mira Rosenthal), and Israeli poet Maya Tevet Dayan (trans. Jane Medved).
The cover features work by Denver-based artist Kate Petley, who has been featured in twenty-seven solo exhibitions and has received an NEA Rockefeller Foundation Grant (among other honors).

Contributors to issue 30 come from all over the country and the world. Some U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:
Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributor Lyle May; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)
New York, NY (contributors Emily Blair, Sasha Burshteyn, Vincent Czyz, Edward Hirsch, Maureen Langloss, Alicia Mountain; contributing editor Jason Koo)
Washington, DC (contributors Christina Beasley and David Keplinger; contributing editor David Keplinger)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributor Kara Wang; contributing editors Robin Ekiss and Randall Mann)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributor Andrea Cohen; contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
Philadelphia, PA (contributors Kirsten Kaschock, Steven Kleinman, and Catherine Staples)
Los Angeles, CA (contributors Brendan Constantine and Donna Spruijt-Metz)
Kansas City, MO (contributors Hadara Bar-Nadav and John Gallaher)
Austin, TX (contributors Charlie Clark and Shangyang Fang)
Cincinnati, OH (contributors Don Bogen and Jennifer Habel)
Chicago, IL (contributor Bill Marsh; contributing editor Robert Archambeau)
Chico, CA (contributor Troy Jollimore)
El Cerrito, CA (contributor Shabnam Nadiya)
San Luis Obispo, CA (contributor Mira Rosenthal)
Rexburg, ID (contributor Jim Richards)
Bloomington, IN (contributor Patrick Kindig)
Indianapolis, IN (contributor Alessandra Lynch)
Morgantown, IN (contributor Nancy Chen Long)
Pittsburgh, PA (contributing editor Joy Katz)
Sewanee, TN (contributor Leigh Ann Couch)
Denton, TX (contributor Bruce Bond)
Houston, TX (contributing editor Kevin Prufer)
San Antonio, TX (contributor Jenny Browne)
Sunset Valley, TX (contributor Shakthi Shrima)
Blacksburg, VA (contributor Erika Meitner)
Lexington, VA (contributor Lesley Wheeler)
Norfolk, VA (contributor Kelly Morse)
Madison, WI (contributing editor Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Charleston, WV (contributing editor Mark Brazaitis)
International Contributors live in:
Montreal, Canada (Virginia Konchan)
Ottawa, Canada (Adam Meisner)
Toronto, Canada (Ruma Modak)
Jerusalem, Israel (Jane Medved)
Tel Aviv, Israel (Maya Tevet Dayan)
Haarlem, Netherlands (Lucas Hirsch)
Opole, Poland (Tomasz Ró¿ycki)

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of four collections, including Post- and The City, Our City, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of Moikom Zeqös Zodiac)¿along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author of Vanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and prose
editors Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth) and Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and The Beach at Galle Road).
Since the journal¿s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been listed as ¿notable¿ in the Best American Essays.
Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel Prize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the Prix Max Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well as fellowships from the NEA and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner, Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations.
Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationally to bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC.