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The premiere issue of West Coast Review, a new journal from San Diego State University Press, lands like a bright, unruly dispatch from the continental edge—restless, hybrid, and happily disobedient. Its inaugural pages gather writers whose work thrives on crossing wires between genres and forms: Karen Pierce Gonzalez, D. Harlan Wilson, Johnny Payne, Hannah Thorsell, Andrew Joron, K.L. Johnston, Lance Olsen, Gerrie Paino, Karen An-hwei Lee, and JoAnna Novak. Together they chart literary worlds of speculative intensity, lyric experiment, and intellectual mischief.

The issue emerges from an editorial ensemble as eclectic as the writing itself. The SDSU-based Board of Editors includes innovators of avant-garde fiction, Pulitzer-recognized biography, young adult literary stardom, media archaeology, and cultural theory—a deliberately combustible mix. Extending outward is an External Board distinguished by singular talents: Frederick Luis Aldama, a pioneering force in Latinx pop-culture and comics studies; Susan Daitch, a major voice in American experimental fiction; Karen An-hwei Lee, an acclaimed poet-scholar of eco-poetics and theology; Eugene Lim, whose philosophically charged novels blur narrative and conceptual art; Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a New York Times–bestselling nature writer and poet; Lance Olsen, a leading figure in innovative, multimedia fiction; and Ito Romo, a celebrated chronicler of borderlands life and Chicano literary culture. 

Designed by a team that treats the page as both artifact and laboratory, West Coast Review announces itself not simply as a new journal, but as a meeting ground where West Coast restlessness becomes method, aesthetic, and invitation.