CUTTHROAT 12 is a cutting-edge literary journal featuring some of the nation's top writers as well as new and emerging voices. This is a substantial volume--228 pages of poetry and short stories and book reviews, including work by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Luis Alberto Urrea, Patricia Smith, Doug Anderson, Arthur Smith, Richard Jackson, Elizabeth Evans, Margo Berdeshevsky, Kathy Conde (winner of the 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize), David Maduli (winner of the 2011 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize), Tawnysha Greene, Meg Pokrass, Charlotte Lowe, Jeff Daniel Marion, Lucyna Prostko, Darci Bysouth (2011 winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition), Linda Parsons Marion, and Howard Faerstein (2012 Cutthroat Discovery Poet).