HISTORY & MISSION
At Length has been publishing long-form writing—poetry, fiction, essays, & more—for over 20 years. Under its founding editors, Jonathan Farmer and Dan Kois, the journal appeared as a print quarterly, focusing on poems and stories. In 2009, Farmer expanded At Length’s offerings to include art, photography, and music; he also moved the journal online. In 2023, Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher took the reins from Farmer, redesigning At Length’s website and branching out into literary translation.
Throughout its existence, At Length has offered a venue for in-depth writing that’s open to possibilities that shorter forms preclude. We publish long poems (and poetic sequences), novellas, narrative non-fiction, literary criticism, and translations from all of the above. Our authors have won Pulitzers, Guggenheims, Whiting Awards, and National Book Awards. Other publications have taken note. At Length has been written up in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Poets & Writers, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal, while work from the site has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Best Music Writing, and received Best of the Net awards.
At Length strives to publish new work a few times each month. We also maintain a searchable archive of the journal’s history, which we encourage you to explore. There you’ll find work by Terrance Hayes, Daisy Fried, Belle Boggs, Kimiko Hahn, Major Jackson, Shane McCrae, Paisley Rekdal, and many others.
To make sure that you’re up to date with the journal’s new offerings, consider following us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Mastodon. You can also write to us: At Length c/o Derek Mong, English Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 47933. At Length is grateful to Wabash College for supporting its Managing Editor position.
MASTHEAD
Derek Mong (Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor) is the author of three poetry collections from Saturnalia Books—Other Romes, The Identity Thief, and When the Earth Flies into the Sun (forthcoming 2024)—as well as a chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist, from Two Sylvias Press. He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, received the Cliff Becker Translation Award for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin (White Pine Press). A contributing editor at Zócalo Public Square, he lives with his family in Indiana, where he chairs the English Department at Wabash College. Read more at www.derekmong.com.
Anne O. Fisher (Editor-in-Chief and Translation Editor) condemns the Russian Federation’s ongoing war of aggression on Ukraine. Fisher teaches in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Translation and Interpreting Studies program. Recent translations include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s “The Poetics of Titles” (Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction [Columbia University Press]). Her translation of Ukraine, Love, War: A Donetsk Diary by Ukrainian writer, journalist, and historian Olena Stiazhkina, is forthcoming in 2024 (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute). Read more at www.anneofisher.com.
Preeta Samarasan (Fiction Editor) grew up in Malaysia and lived in New Mexico, upstate New York, and Michigan before moving to France, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels Evening is the Whole Day (2008) and Tale of the Dreamer’s Son (2022), as well as of numerous short stories and essays published in Asia, Europe, and North America. She is currently working on a third novel about two elderly sisters.
Carson Wirtz (Managing Editor) is a sophomore English major at Wabash College. At Wabash, Carson has been honored as a Presidential Scholar and a recipient of the Robert Wedgeworth ’59 Library Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award from Wabash College’s Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, & Creative Work. Carson has worked for At Length since 2023.
Jonathan Farmer (Founding Editor) was the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of At Length from 2003-2023. He is the author of That Peculiar Affirmative: On the Social Life of Poems, and he teaches middle and high school English. He has written about poetry for sites and publications that include Slate, The Kenyon Review, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Poetry Foundation.
Former Editors include Jonathan Bernstein (Music), Belle Boggs (Prose), Sumita Chakraborty (Art), Darren King (Photography), Deborah Clomp Ching (Photography), Elaine Bleakney (Editor-at-Large), and Dan Kois (Founding Editor).