Below is a list of the authors and editors who have given the Backwaters Press the opportunity to produce award-winning poems and prose for the discerning literary reader.
- Jorn Ake – The Circle Line
- T.J. Anderson III – River to Cross
- Aaron Anstett – No Accident
- Anthologies – Road Trip – Conversations With Writers , Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace, Nebraska Presence – An Anthology of Poetry , Eating the Pure Light – An Homage to Thomas McGrath, Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees
- Alicia Beale – The Manifestation of Orange Poppies
- Brian E. Bengtson – Leavenworth Street
- Robert Bense – Readings in Ordinary Time
- John Bradley – Eating the Pure Light – An Homage to Thomas McGrath (ed)
- Matthew Brennan – The House with the Mansard Roof
- Trevino L. Brings Plenty – Real Indian Junk Jewelry
- Michelle Brooks – Make Yourself Small
- J.V. Brummels – Cheyenne Line, City at War
- Christopher Buckley (ed.) - Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees
- Sue Carnahan – Auto Repair
- Richard Carr – Street Portraits
- Michael Catherwood – DARE
- Yu-Han Chao - We Grow Old.
- Sharon Charde – Branch in His Hand
- Shelly Clark – Road Trip – Conversations With Writers (ed)
- John Clarke – Good Lonely Day
- Sheila Cowing – Jackrabbit Highways
- Susan Eisenberg – Blind Spot
- Jeanne Emmons – The Glove of the World
- Anita Feng – Sadie & Mendel
- Susan Firer – Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People, The Laugh We Make When We Fall
- Charles Fort – Mrs. Belladonna’s Supper Club Waltz
- Joann Gardner – La Florida
- Michelle Gillett – Blinding the Goldfinches
- Charles Gillispie - The Way We Go On
- Kevin Griffith - Paradise Refunded
- Linda M. Hasselstrom – Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
- Twyla Hansen – Potato Soup, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
- Lola Haskins – Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life
- Wendell Hawken – The Luck of Being
- Margaret J. Hoehn – The Trajectory of Sunflowers
- Celia Homesley – Body of Crimson Leaves
- Tim Hunt – Fault Lines
- Linnea Johnson – Augury
- William Kloefkorn – Out of Attica
- Greg Kosmicki – Nebraska Presence – An Anthology of Poetry (ed), Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (ed)
- John Krumberger – The Language of Rain and Wind
- Greg Kuzma – All That is Not Given is Lost
- Susanna Lang – Even Now
- Steve Langan – Notes on Exile & Other Poems
- Dorie LaRue – Resurrecting Virgil
- Jean LeBlanc – At Any Moment
- Jay Leeming – Dynamite on a China Plate
- Richard Lehnert – A Short History of the Usual
- Denise Low - Natural Theologies: Essays About Literature of the New Middle West
- Ginny MacKenzie – Skipstone
- Paul Martin – Closing Distances
- Matt Mason – Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
- Brad Maxfield - For All We Know
- Nancy McCleery – Girl Talk
- K.A. McGowan – No Passengers
- John McKernan – Resurrection of the Dust
- Damon McLaughlin – Exchanging Lives
- Sally Allen McNall – Rescue
- Andrew Mulvania – Also in Arcadia
- Alexandria Peary – Fall Foliage Called Bathers & Dancers
- Robert Perchan – Overdressed to Kill
- Pamela Porter – The Intelligence of Animals
- David Ray – Music of Time: Selected and New Poems
- Jim Reese – These Trespasses
- Robert Richter – Homefield: Sonata in Rural Voice
- Liz Robbins – Hope, As The World Is A Scorpion Fish
- Richard Robbins – The Untested Hand
- Howard W. Robertson - The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi
- John Ronan – Marrowbone Lane
- CarolAnn Russell – Gypsy Taxi
- Marjorie Saiser – Beside You At The Stoplight, Road Trip – Conversations With Writers (ed), Lost in Seward County, Bones of a Very Fine Hand, Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (ed)
- Mark Sanders – Here in the Big Empty
- Lisa Sandlin – Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (ed)
- Roy Scheele – A Far Allegiance
- Barbara Schmitz - How Much Our Dancing Has Improved
- Brent Spencer – Rattlesnake Daddy
- Mark Spencer – The Weary Motel
- David Staudt - The Gifts and Thefts\
- Carole Stone - Traveling With the Dead
- Mary K. Stillwell – Nebraska Presence – An Anthology of Poetry (ed)
- Allen Strous – Tired
- Tim Suermondt – Trying to Help the Elephant Man Dance.
- Kathleen Tyler – My Florida
- Ryan Vine – Distant Engines
- Tyrone Williams – The Hero Project of the Century
- Warren Woessner – Clear All the Rest of the Way
- Jody Zorgdrager – Of Consequence