Minnetonka Review engages and entertains with the finest literary art of both new and established authors. This premiere issue features the work of 40 poets, essayists, and fiction writers. It includes a novel excerpt and interview with Robin Lippincott; an epic short story by Bev Jafek (Best American Short Stories), Meagan Cass, Nathan Leslie, Paul Silverman, Dennis Vannatta, and Daniel DiStasio; essays and memoir by Arthur Winfield Knight, Carol Severino, and Arthur Saltzman; poems by Troy Alvey, Rane Arroyo, Lois Shapley Bassen, E.G. Burrows, Janet Butler, R.T. Castleberry, Darien Cavanaugh, Allan Douglass Coleman, Mark DeCarteret, Nancy Devine, Terry Godbey, Mark Harrison, David Harrity, Liam Hysjulien, W. Luther Jett, Marci Rae Johnson, Susan Koefod, Pamela L. Laskin, Mary F. Lee, Joanne Lowery, Susan H. Maurer, Jae Newman, B.Z. Niditch, Glenn Sheldon, Ann Struthers, Catherine Senne Wallace, Susan Wallack, Daniel Williams A.D. Winans, and Fredrick Zydek.