Tin House

History

Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called Tin House in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell.

In 2005, Tin House expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at Reed College.{{Infobox magazine Tin House was honored by major American literary awards and anthologies, particularly for its fiction. A story from the Summer 2003 issue, "Breasts" by Stuart Dybek, was featured in The Best American Short Stories for 2004, and in 2006, "Window" by Deborah Eisenberg was a "juror favorite" in The O. Henry Prize Stories.

In December 2018, Tin House announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years, in order to focus on their book releases and workshops. The magazine was closed after the release of its June 2019 20th-anniversary issue.

In March 2025, Tin House Books was acquired by Zando.

Content

Tin House published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of writing greats. It was also distinguished from many other notable literary magazines by actively seeking work from previously unpublished writers to feature as "New Voices".

Staff

• Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Win McCormack
• Editor: Rob Spillman
• Art Director: Diane Chonette
• Deputy Publisher: Holly Macarthur
• Managing Editor: Cheston Knapp
• Executive Editor: Michelle Wildgen
• Senior Editor: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky
• Editor-at-Large: Elissa Schappell
• Associate Editor: Thomas Ross
• Poetry Editor: Camille T. Dungy
• Senior Designer: Jakob Vala
• Paris Editor: Heather Hartley
• Copy Editors: Meg Storey and Jess Kibler

Writers whose work has appeared in ''Tin House''

• Chris Adrian
• Sherman Alexie
• Dorothy Allison
• Steve Almond
• Yehuda Amichai
• Rebecca Aronson
• Tom Barbash
• Charles Baxter
• Aimee Bender
• Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• Lucy Corin
• Ariel Dorfman
• Stuart Dybek
• Deborah Eisenberg
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Richard Ford
• William Gay
• Allan Gurganus
• Seamus Heaney
• Ann Hood
• Bret Anthony Johnston
• Miranda July
• Yasunari Kawabata
• James Kelman
• William Keohane
• Stephen King
• Phil Klay
• Stanley Kunitz
• Kelly Le Fave
• Jonathan Lethem
• Kelly Link
• Patricia Lockwood
• Rick Moody
• Alice Munro
• Pablo Neruda
• Sharon Olds
• Dawn Powell
• Peter Rock
• Marilynne Robinson
• Karen Russell
• Edward W. Said
• James Salter
• John Sanford
• Charles Simic
• Donna Tartt
• Quincy Troupe
• Danielle Trussoni
• David Foster Wallace

Tin House Books

Staff

• Senior Editor: Masie Cochran
• Senior Editor: Tony Perez
• Assistant Editor: Elizabeth DeMeo
• Director of Marketing & Rights: Nanci McCloskey
• Director of Publicity: Molly Templeton
• Publicity and Marketing Assistant: Yashwina Canter
• Art Director: Diane Chonette
• Senior Designer: Jakob Vala
• Designer: Jeremy Cruz

Books published

• Best of Tin House (2006).
• Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House (2007).
• Food and Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast (2006).
• The World Within (2007).
• Arnold-Ratliff, Katie. Bright Before Us (2011).
• Becker, Geoffrey. Hot Springs (2010).
• Beha, Christopher. What Happened to Sophie Wilder (2012). 978-1935639312
• Bogan, Louis, trans. and ed. The Journal of Jules Renard (2008).
• Boren, Karen Lee. Girls in Peril (2006).
• Braver, Adam. "November 22, 1963" (2008).
• Corin, Lucy. The Entire Predicament (2007).
• DeVoto, Bernard. The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto (2010).
• Erens, Pamela. The Virgins (2013).
• Fasenfest, Harriet. A Householder's Guide to the Universe (2010).
• Freed, Dolly. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money (2010).
• Fuller, Claire. Our Endless Numbered Days (2015).
• Goldfaden, Josh. Human Resources (2006).
• Grimes, Tom. Mentor: A Memoir (2010).
• Hallman, J. C. ed. The Story About the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature (2009).
• Harvey, Matthea, illustrated by Zechel, Elizabeth. The Little General and The Giant Snowflake (2009).
• Heyns, Michiel, introduction by A. L. Kennedy. "The Children's Day" (2009).
• Hirvonen, Elina. "When I Forgot" (2009).
• Hunt, Samantha. "The Seas" (2018).
• Krusoe, Jim. "Erased." (2009)
• Krusoe, Jim. Girl Factory (2008).
• Lawrence, Sarahlee. River House (2007).
• Lemon, Alex. Mosquito (2006).
• Matheson, Michele. Saving Angelfish (2006).
• McCormack, Win. You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values (2008).
• Michaels, Sean. Us Conductors (2014).
• Montgomery, Lee and Tony Perez, eds. "The Writer's Notebook" (2009).
• Morris, Keith Lee. Call It What You Want (2010).
• Morris, Keith Lee. The Dart League King (2008).
• Nevai, Lucia. Salvation (2008).
• Otis, Mary. Yes, Yes Cherries (2007)
• Parker, Jeff, Mikhail Iossel, eds. Francine Prose, intro. "Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia" (2009).
• Parker, Jeff. Ovenman (2007).
• Pashley, Jennifer. The Scamp (2015).
• Pico, Tommy. Nature Poem (2017).
• Shaughnessy, Brenda and C. J. Evans, eds. "Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House" (2008).
• Smith, Robert Paul, illustrated by Smith, Elinor Goulding. How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2010).
• Smith, Zak. Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (2006).
• Smith, Zak. "We Did Porn" (2009).
• Sparling, Scott. Wire to Wire (2011).
• Specktor, Matthew. American Dream Machine (2012). 978-1935639442
• Taylor, Kimball. The Coyote's Bicycle (2016).
• van Niekerk, Marlene. Agaat (2010).
• Vanasco, Jeanie. The Glass Eye (2017).
• Watson, Jan Elizabeth. Asta in the Wings (2009).

References

References

1. "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR.
2. McGrath, Charles. (February 6, 2005). ["Does the Paris Review Get a Second Act?"]"](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/weekinreview/06mcgr.html?scp=14&sq=%22Tin%20House%22&st=cse). [[The New York Times]].
3. Greenfield, Beth. (May 4, 2007). "Where Words Go to Work and Play". The New York Times.
4. Moore, Lorrie (ed.), [https://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-2004/dp/0618197354 ''The Best American Short Stories 2004''], Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
5. Furman, Laura. [http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400095391&view=toc ''The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006.''] Anchor: May 2006.
6. (December 13, 2018). "Tin House Publishing To End Print Magazine In 2019".
7. McCormack, Win. (December 13, 2018). "On the Closing of Tin House Magazine".
8. Milliot {{!}}, Jim. "Zando Acquires Tin House".
9. Cotts, Cynthia. (June 22, 1999). "Tin Meisters".
10. (January 18, 2012). "Staff".
11. See also [[List of short stories by Alice Munro]].
12. "The Coyote's Bicycle".
13. [https://tinhouse.com/author/jan-elizabeth-watson/ Jan Elizabeth Watson], Tin House Catalog.