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Guest Editor Susan Nguyen: A Special Feature
“I’ve been thinking and dreaming about the failures of language lately. How it has the power to make me feel small, to forget myself. This may sound strange coming from a writer and a poet – so often I talk about the possibilities of language.”
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Guest Editor Juan Martinez: A Special Feature
“What ties these three stories together is that they’re so fantastic at threading the needle between family and the familiar and disaster.”
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Wendy S. Walters
Swell Marion planned to buy two dozen green apples from Javier’s stand at the market when it opened because in September the air is a fresh start. When she arrived, … Read the rest
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Dionne Irving
Nature Made The biblical story of the tower a Babel was one that always fascinated me, so much so that, if it were the subject of the lesson in Sunday … Read the rest
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Tomás Q. Morín
This Lie Was Made for You and Me The City I and The City II are a pair of paintings by Vincent Valdez. They are a part of the permanent … Read the rest
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Heather Jeong
Heather Jeong is a software engineer based in New York City. This is her first published story.
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Matthew Haynes
Matthew Haynes is the author of the novella, Friday. His short stories and essays appear in The Normal School, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Yellow Medicine Review.
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Callum Angus
Callum Angus is a trans and queer writer with stories and essays in Nat. Brut, The Common, The Offing, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and elsewhere.
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Rickey Laurentiis
Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Lambda Literary Award.
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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips’s most recent book of poems is Wild Is the Wind(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018).
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