ZG Tomaszewski
Alphabet

ZG Tomaszewski - Alphabet

Poetry
Author of All Things Dusk, Mineral Whisper, River Nocturne, and several limited edition coffee table books, including Korakia and Stone Poems, ZG Tomaszewski is a gardener who enjoys arranging flowers… Read more »
Lucy Zhang
Bad Apple

Lucy Zhang - Bad Apple

Fiction
Lucy Zhang writes, codes, and watches anime. Her work has appeared in The Molotov Cocktail, Interzone, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks Hollowed (Thirty West… Read more »
Brecht De Poortere
Black with White Stripes

Brecht De Poortere - Black with White Stripes

Fiction
Brecht De Poortere was born in Belgium and grew up in Africa. He currently lives in Paris, France. His writing has appeared in X-R-A-Y, Consequence, Emerge Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Find him on… Read more »
Lance Larsen
Envy

Lance Larsen - Envy

Poetry
Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). His awards include a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He… Read more »
Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Erosion and the Laetoli Footprints

Susan Blackwell Ramsey - Erosion and the Laetoli Footprints

Poetry
Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s work has appeared, among other places, in The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, and Best American Poetry; her book, A Mind Like This, won the Prairie Schooner… Read more »
Marcia L. Hurlow
Evening Before the Diagnosis

Marcia L. Hurlow - Evening Before the Diagnosis

Poetry
Marcia L. Hurlow is the author of one full-length collection of poems and five chapbooks. Her individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry East, Cold Mountain,… Read more »
Lydia Waites
Freelance

Lydia Waites - Freelance

Fiction
Lydia Waites is an East Yorkshire based writer and Creative Writing PhD candidate at the University of Lincoln. She is a Fiction Editor for The Lincoln Review and founder of Tether’s End Magazine.… Read more »
Donna Vorreyer
Holding On

Donna Vorreyer - Holding On

Poetry
Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. She lives in the… Read more »
Kael Knight
Moose Prayer

Kael Knight - Moose Prayer

Creative Nonfiction
Kael Knight is a journalist, photographer, and essayist. His essay “The Trail” won the John Allen Gifford Award in 2021. Knight is currently based out of Kansas City, where he lives with his wife.… Read more »
Michael Beard
Mute Ghost of Your Grandfather

Michael Beard - Mute Ghost of Your Grandfather

Poetry
Michael Beard (he/him/his) currently studies poetry at the Bowling Green State University MFA program and serves as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. His poems have appeared or are… Read more »
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
My Two Voices

Gustavo Pérez Firmat - My Two Voices

Creative Nonfiction
A native of Cuba, Gustavo Pérez Firmat has published several books of poetry in Spanish and English, including Equivocaciones, Bilingual Blues, Scar Tissue, The Last Exile, and Sin lengua… Read more »
Jared Hanson
Wild Edibles

Jared Hanson - Wild Edibles

Fiction
Jared Hanson received his MFA from Columbia University and lives in New York City. His fiction has been published in the Gettysburg Review and Pembroke Magazine. Read more »
Matt Barrett
You Wish This Were a Novel

Matt Barrett - You Wish This Were a Novel

Fiction
Matt Barrett holds an MFA in Fiction from UNC-Greensboro, and his stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun Magazine, Best Microfiction 2022, SmokeLong Quarterly, Contrary, Vast Chasm, and… Read more »
Winshen Liu
自強號 (zì qiáng hào)

Winshen Liu - 自強號 (zì qiáng hào)

Poetry
Winshen Liu is a Taiwanese American writer who has worked in various roles in non-profits, education, and tech. Her writing has appeared in Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and Raft, and is… Read more »

Evening Before the Diagnosis

Marcia L. Hurlow

Right now, Dylan, I’m fighting as I march along the lake, my pit bull pulling me to the grey edge of shore to rage at a heron. It flies with a ragged screech to a farther bank. Its nest, I’m sure, crackles with young and their pale wings rise in hunger as the mother lands. It’s all expectation. She might have a fish. Nothing, now, is a question.
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