Collected here in THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT are works by some of the finest poets, short story writers and nonfiction writers in our country, including Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sandra Cisneros, Alison Hawthorne-Deming, Rebecca Seiferle, Richard Jackson, Michael Martone, Patricia Smith, Pam Houston, Linda Hogan and others. This anthology is a distillation of all the fine work that Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts has published in print editions over the past ten years. Cutthroat is a literary journal dedicated to publishing finely-crafted poetry, short stories and nonfiction with an edge. Edited by Pam Uschuk, William Pitt Root, Beth Alvarado and William Luvaas, Cutthroat may be seen at www.cutthroatmag.com