2010 Grad Named Editor at The Oxford American

Wes Enzinna (MJ ’10) was recently named associate editor of The Oxford American. A national magazine based out of Conway, Arkansas and
billed as “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing,” The Oxford American has
won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began
publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of
writers such as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Donald
Harington, Donna Tartt, Ernest J. Gaines, and many other distinguished
authors, while also discovering and launching the most promising writers
in the region.

The magazine has also published previously unseen work by
such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy,
James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey, Carson McCullers, to name
just a handful. The New York Times recently stated that The Oxford
American “may be the liveliest literary magazine in America.”