[1] It was founded as The Kindred Spirit[2] in February 1982, by Michael Hathaway shortly after graduating high school and taking a job as typesetter at a local daily newspaper.
A special tribute issue to Gerald Locklin (#127) was published in the fall of 2022, also edited by Michael Hathaway.
[20] Chiron Review's archives [1979-2015] are housed at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
[24] Chiron Review has published work by authors such as Charles Bukowski, William Stafford, Jan Kerouac, Marge Piercy, James Broughton, Edward Field, Elizabeth Swados, Antler (poet), Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Peters, Lesléa Newman, Lyn Lifshin, D.A.
Levy, Charles Harper Webb, Erskine Caldwell, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Janice Eidus, Denise Duhamel, Wanda Coleman, Charles Plymell, S.A. Griffin, Harry Northup, Hugh Fox, A.D. Winans, Clifton Snider, Felice Picano, Will Inman, Michael Xavier, and Quentin Crisp.