About Us

Sunlight shining through trees over Shadow Falls waterfall and rocky stream in a lush forest.

Shadow Falls is a waterfall hidden in the forested cliffs along the Mississippi River, just next to the campus of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The falls sits in a shady alcove, in the city but not of it, a removed slice of urban wilderness. There’s no thunderous gorge here, nothing gaudy or loud. It’s a quiet place, subtle and mysterious.

Shadow Falls Review embodies that same feeling, the comfort of the natural world mixed with foreboding. What will I find in these damp rocks? What’s hidden in the darkness? What am I really capable of?

We all have shadows, lived in and cast. Where water and light meet, mingle, and disappear. That’s where you’ll find us: Welcome to Shadow Falls Review!

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Editor
Caleb Tankersley

Assistant Editor
Camryn Hay

Readers
Coming soon!

Bios

Caleb Tankersley is an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas and serves as Managing Director for Split/Lip Press. He is the author of the story collection Sin Eaters—winner of the Permafrost Book Prize—and of Jesus Works the Night Shift. His writing can be found in Carve, The Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, and other magazines.

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St. Thomas’s MA
in Creative Writing and Publishing

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Would you like to deepen your study of creative writing and publishing? Interested in working with our excellent faculty, learning about the publishing industry, and working on Shadow Falls Review? You can do all this and more at the University of St. Thomas’s MA program in Creative Writing and Publishing.

 Find more information about St. Thomas’s Creative Writing and Publishing MA program here.