River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative is recognized as a national leader in publishing quality essays, memoir, and literary journalism. It was co-founded in 1999 by Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman, professors at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. In 2019, following the retirement of editors Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman, River Teeth moved its primary location to Ball State University under the leadership of Jill Christman and Mark Neely. Read more about the move to Ball State here.

River Teeth has grown from a biannual journal edited by two professors with stacks of envelopes in their offices to a lively, multi-platform literary editing organization that not only continues to print the best of today’s nonfiction in River Teeth, but also publishes a weekly online magazine of micro-essays, Beautiful Things, monthly book reviews of contemporary nonfiction, and essays to support River Teeth in the classroom. We also sponsor one of the most competitive literary nonfiction book prizes in the nation.