Little Star, an annual journal of poetry and prose, was founded in 2009 by Ann Kjellberg and Melissa Green.
ANN KJELLBERG, Editor, has been an editor at The New York Review of Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Artes, the journal of the Swedish Academy. She is the literary executor of the poet Joseph Brodsky and the editor of Brodsky’s Collected Poems in English. She has been an adjunct professor of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.
MELISSA GREEN, Consulting Editor, is the author of two collections of poetry—The Squanicook Eclogues and 52—as well as a memoir, Color is the Suffering of Light. Her work has appeared in Yale Review, AGNI, Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books. The Squanicook Eclogues received the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
JILL BOLTIN, web designer, is a freelance designer with experience in book cover and web design.
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“Literary Heirs,” Stephen Heyman
T Magazine culture section, New York Times blog, February 10, 2012
“Writing Adrift in the World,” Tim Parks
New York Review blog, January 19, 2012
Staff Picks: Robyn Cresswell
Paris Review Daily, November 4, 2011
“Writing Worth Reading” pick
The Browser, August 17, 2011
“Little Star, Shining Bright,”
by Ron Hogan
USA Character Approved blog, July 8, 2011
“Mark Strand, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ian Frazier Help Launch Little Star #2,”
by Jeannie Vanasco
New Yorker Book Bench, May 10, 2011
Three pieces by Lydia Davis, from Little Star #1, receive Pushcart Prize for 2011
“A Little Star is Born,”
by Jessa Crispin
“Need to Know on PBS,” January 4, 2011
Editor Ann Kjellberg on
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, December 21, 2010
An NYRB Staff Favorite (Eve Bowen)
Typepad, New York Review Books, December 31, 2010
“Back to the Future (of Print),”
by Deirdre Foley-Mendelsohn
New Yorker Book Bench. December 15, 2009
“Afraid to be men,” excerpt from “Manifesto” in Little Star #1
by Padgett Powell
Harper’s, June 2010
“The Booky Man: Little Star and Loose Change,”
by Charles McNair
Paste Magazine, March 11, 2010
Featured in “Pressing Issues” by Laura Pearson
“Is Greater Than,” May 17, 2010
“Is there still a place for print literary mags?”
“Dirda’s Reading Room,” with Michael Dirda
The Washington Post (online), March 22, 2010
“Welcome, Welcome Little Star,” by Joseph Hutchison
“The Perpetual Bird,” June 4, 2010
“Catching Up with Little Star,” by Daniel Nester
“We Who Are About To Die,” August 8, 2010
Mention in “Luna Digest,” by Travis Kurowski
Fictionaut, September 14, 2010
“Best of the Bunch,” by Daniel Hartlay
“Thinking Blue Guitars,” May 5, 2010
Frequently linked to ‘”Elsewhere in the Republic of Letters” on The New Republic Book page