New Limestone Review is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing program.
Established in 1986, New Limestone Review (originally Limestone) published work from internationally-recognized poets Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon and from many noted Kentucky writers, including Wendell Berry, Gurney Norman, Ed McClanahan, Frank X Walker, Maurice Manning, Nikky Finney, and Holly Goddard Jones.
New Limestone Review seeks to bring groundbreaking works of literary art to the web and to a national audience.
Editorial Staff
Fiction + Poetry Editor: Kimi Hardesty Kimi Hardesty is a writer from Dallas, Texas. She received her BA in Psychology at The University of Texas in 1978, her BSN in Nursing with a minor in Biology from Texas Woman’s University in 1984 and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goddard College in 2018. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Her work has been published in The Pitkin Review, Ritualwell, Speak Magazine, Healthywomen, Farmer-ish, and The Next Page Book Project.
Fiction + Poetry Editor: Katie Limberg
Katie Limberg is a fiction writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing, and obtained a minor in History from Ohio University and is an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Previously, she has interned at the New Ohio Review.
Nonfiction + Poetry Editor: Isabella Mason Isabella Mason is a nonfiction writer from Charlotte, NC. She is a first-year MFA candidate and graduate instructor at the University of Kentucky. Her work has been published in Carolina Muse, Stuck In Notes, and 3 to 4 Ounces.
Nonfiction + Poetry Editor: Jeremy Tavares
Jeremy Tavares is a nonfiction writer, MFA candidate, and graduate instructor at the University of Kentucky. He earned his BA in English from the University of Mississippi in 2003. He has been published in Stonecrop magazine and the Dead Mule.
Fiction + Poetry Editor: Jaydon Pritchard
Jaydon Pritchard is an MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky, hailing from Illinois. He received his BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Southern Indiana. He writes primarily fiction. Previously, he interned for the Southern Indiana Review.
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Milward
Andrew Milward was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the author of the story collections The Agriculture Hall of Fame, which was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction by the University of Massachusetts, and I Was a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2015), which was awarded the Friends of American Writers Literature Award. His fiction has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and appeared in many places, including Zoetrope, American Short Fiction, VQR, The Southern Review, Guernica, as well as Best New American Voices. His first book of nonfiction, Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball was released Fall 2019. Milward has served as the McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Former Editors
January 2024 – May 2024
Nonfiction + Poetry Editor: Mallory Donoghue
January 2023 – December 2023
Editor-in-Chief + Nonfiction Editor: Akhira Mahal
Poetry Editor: Kate Arden
Fiction Editor: Nick Ruma
August 2022 – May 2023
Editor: Henry Knollenberg
Editor: Clay Shields
Editor: Daniel Collins
Faculty Advisor: Frank X Walker
February 2021 – May 2022
Editor: Allegra Solomon
Editor: Peyton Howard
Editor: Kevin Bond
February 2020 – May 2021
Editor-in-Chief: Gavin Colton
Editor-in-Chief: Emily M. Goldsmith
Fiction Editor: Chan Kelly
Poetry Editor: Gabby Oliver
March 2019 – February 2020
Editor-in-Chief: Zeke Perkins
Managing Editor: Kimberly Glanzman
Fiction Editor: Michael McEwen
Poetry Editor: Dane Ritter
Podcast & Social Media Editor: Ash Baker
Web & Art Editor: Kaylen Rose
April 2018 – February 2019
Editor-in-Chief: Omaria Sanchez Pratt
Managing Editor: Isabelle Johnson
Fiction Editor: Taylor Sarratt
Poetry Editor: Tiara Brown
Digital Media Editor: Jeremy Flick
May 2017 – April 2018
Editor-in-Chief: Kate Tighe-Pigott
Managing Editor: Evan Arneson
Fiction Editor: Austin Baurichter
Poetry Editor: Sophie Weiner
Nonfiction Editor: Austyn Gaffney
January 2017 – May 2017
Editors-in- Chief: Jordan Hubrich & Amanda Corbin
Senior Editors: Chad Gilpin & Gary Thomas Smith
Interns: Chelsie Abney, Kate Heinonen & Julia Mikulec
Faculty Advisors: Julia Johnson & Gurney Norman