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KNOCKOUT was founded by Jeremy Halinen and Brett Ortler.

Jeremy Halinen (MFA, Eastern Washington University) is coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. At EWU, he served as poetry editor of Willow Springs. His chapbook Fragments of Water (2003, St. Andrews College Press) won the Alan Bunn Memorial Award. His work recently appeared or is forthcoming in Dos Passos Review; Gertrude; Pontoon: an anthology of Washington State Poets, Number Ten; Quarter After Eight; Rio Grande Review; the 2008 Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets; and Tight.

Brett Ortler recently graduated with an M.F.A. from Eastern Washington University, where he edited WILLOW SPRINGS and also taught.  He is co-founder and co-editor of KNOCKOUT LITERARY MAGAZINE. His own work appears in THE SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW, ASCENT,  and online at McSweeney's, among other places.  He lives in the Twin Cities and works as an editor, translator, and technical writer.

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