Welcome to

Thin Air Magazine

It’s high up here

Thin Air Magazine proudly cultivates a Flagstaff-based, MFA student-led literary community with global reach to publish emerging authors with intriguing ideas. Based at 7,000 feet out of Northern Arizona University, we have no choice but to invite work that takes us to dizzying heights with its innovation and insight. We aspire to foster diversity, authenticity, surprise, and excitement while making the literary world accessible to everyone. Three decades in, we still can’t forget these words from our founders: “All too often, the literary world takes itself too seriously…

Thin Air hopes to change that.”