Issue 31/2 is a special double issue, featuring nationally renowned American writers and nine translation folios with generous selections of work by internationally known writers from Argentina, French-Speaking Belgium, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Poland, the , South Korea, and the Galician Region of Spain.
The issue includes:
Poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa; National Book Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Carl Phillips; Guggenheim Fellows Terese Svoboda, David Kirby, and Mark Halliday; two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Maureen Seaton; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Pablo Medina; Lenore Marshall Prize winner Craig Morgan Teicher; Kresge Arts Foundation and Kundiman Fellow Matthew Olzmann; Ohioana Book Award winner Ruth Awad; Kundiman Prize winner Janine Joseph; Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award winner G. C. Waldrep; Lambda Literary Award finalist Randall Mann; as well as Michael Bazzett, Jehanne Dubrow, Sarah Gridley, Joy Katz, Hailey Leithauser, Claire Wahmanholm, and many others.
Fiction by Maxim Loskutoff, an NPR Best Book author and New York Times Editor¿s Pick; as well as by Cara Blue Adams, Gerri Brightwell, Aidan Forster, Ryan Habermeyer, Nihal Mubarak, and Carolyn Oliver.
Nonfiction by PEN Center USA Literary Award and California Book Award winner Victoria Chang, art and literature critic Robert Archambeau (writing on the ¿spirituality¿ of Andy Warhol), and relative newcomer Caroline Plasket.
Translation Folios with poetry by Filipino poet Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (translated by Kristine Ong Muslim), Mexican poet Cesar Cañedo (translated by Whitney DeVos), Franco-Belgian poet Guy Goffette (translated by Marilyn Hacker), Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula (translated by Maria Nazos), Polish poet Ewa Lipska (translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa El¿bieta Nowakowska, South Korean poet Moon Bo Young (translated by Hedgie Choi), Galician/Spanish poet Chus Pato (translated by Erín Moure), and Argentinian fiction writer, journalist, and political martyr Rodolfo Walsh (translated by Cindy Schuster).
The cover features work by New York-based artist and Gordon Parks Foundation fellow Derrick Adams, whose work has shown nationally and been featured on the television shows Empire and Insecure.

Contributors to issue 31/2 come from all over the country and the world. U.S. cities/regions where contributors are concentrated include:
Denver, CO (home of Copper Nickel and the Copper Nickel staff), as well as contributors Maureen Seaton
and Seth Brady Tucker)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (home of Milkweed Editions; contributors Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm; contributing editor V. V. Ganeshananthan)
Boston/Cambridge, MA (contributors Megan Alpert, Andrea Cohen, J. Kates, Nihal Mubarak, and John Skoyles; contributing editors Martha Collins and Frederick Reiken)
New York, NY (contributors Cara Blue Adams, Laren McClung, Therese Svoboda, Craig Morgan Teicher; contributing editor Jason Koo)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA (contributors Despy Boutris, Randall Mann, Sara Michas-Martin, Kathleen Winter; contributing editor Robin Ekiss)
Houston, TX (contributors Robin Davidson, Hazem Fahmy, and Christopher Brean Murray; contributing editor Kevin Prufer)
Washington, DC (contributors Sarah Burnett and Hailey Leithauser; contributing editor David Keplinger)
Chicago, IL (contributors Robert Archambeau and Matthew Kelsey)
San Diego, CA (contributors Michael Mark and Cindy Schuster)
Grand Rapids, MI (contributors W. Todd Kaneko and Kathleen McGookey)
Saint Louis, MO (contributors Carl Phillips and Steven D. Schroeder)
Philadelphia, PA (contributors Henry Israeli and Eleanor Stanford)
Other cities where contributors live:
Los Angeles, CA (contributor Victoria Chang)
Fairbanks, AK (contributor Gerri Brightwell)
Tuscaloosa, AL (contributor Brian Phillip Whalen)
Ocala, FL (contributor Asa Drake)
South Bend, IN (contributor David Dodd Lee)
Muncie, IN (contributor Mark Neely)
Independence, KY (contributor Caroline Plasket)
New Orleans, LA (contributor Peter Cooley)
Amherst, MA (contributor Matt Donovan)
Worcester, MA (contributor Carolyn Oliver)
Eden, MD (contributor Ryan Habermeyer)
Kansas City, MO (contributor Erin Adair-Hodges)
Hattiesburg, MS (contributor Adam Clay)
Missoula, MT (contributor Maxim Loskutoff)
Raleigh, NC (contributor Jennifer Brown)
Omaha, NE (contributor Lisa Fay Coutley)
Lincoln, NE (contributor Maria Nazos)
Hanover, NH (contributor Matthew Olzmann)
Potsdam, NY (contributor Sarah Barber)
Columbus, OH (contributor Ruth Awad)
Cleveland, OH (contributor Sarah Gridley)
Athens, OH (contributor Mark Halliday)
Stillwater, OK (contributor Janine Joseph)
Eugene, OR (contributor Maxine Scates)
Pittsburgh, PA (contributor Joy Katz)
Lewisburg, PA (contributor G. C. Waldrep)
Conway, SC (contributor Dan Albergotti)
Taylors, SC (contributor Aidan Forster)
Austin, TX (contributor Hedgie Choi)
Denton, TX (contributor Jehanne Dubrow)
Salt Lake City, UT (contributor JP Grasser)
Brattleboro, VT (contributor Pablo Medina)
Madison, WI (contributing editor Jesse Lee Kercheval)
Charleston, WV (contributing editor Mark Brazaitis)
International Contributors live in:
Manila, Philippines (Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Kristine Ong Muslim)
Montreal, Canada (Erín Moure)
Paris, France (Guy Goffette, Marilyn Hacker)
Mexico City, Mexico (Cesar Cañedo, Whitney DeVos)
Krakow, Poland (Ewa Lipska, Ewa Elzbieta Nowakowska)
Jeju, South Korea (Moon Bo Young)
Ourense, Spain (Chus Pato)
London, UK (Lotte Mitchell Reford)

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) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of Remind Me Again What Happened and The Beach at Galle Road)¿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 fiction editor Teague Bohlen (author of The Pull of the Earth).
Since the journal¿s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly 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 Pulitzer Prize; 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.