Stephen Dixon (1936–2019), a cult favorite among writers for decades, published his work in AGNI over a span of forty-three years. During his lifetime he published seventeen novels, the most well-known of which are Frog (British American Publishing, 1991) and Interstate (Henry Holt, 1995), and eighteen story collections, the most recent of which are Dear Abigail and Other Stories (Trnsfr Books, 2018) and Writing, Written (Fantagraphics Books, 2018). He taught writing for many years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

The last of Dixon’s stories to come out during his lifetime, “Tomorrow,” appeared in AGNI 90, released eight days before his death on November 6, 2019. Read William Pierce’s tribute to Dixon.