Kenji C. Liu
After Tofu Mantra II

Kenji C. Liu - After Tofu Mantra II

Poetry
Kenji C. Liu (www.kenjiliu.com) is a 1.5-generation immigrant from New Jersey. A Pushcart Prize nominee and first runner-up finalist for the Poets & Writers 2013 California Writers Exchange Award,… Read more »
Matthew Lippman
American Typewriter

Matthew Lippman - American Typewriter

Poetry
Matthew Lippman is the author of three poetry collections, American Chew (Burnisde Review Press, 2013), which won the Burnside Review Book Prize, Monkey Bars (Typecast Publishing. and The New Year of… Read more »
Kate Leary
Delivery Boy

Kate Leary - Delivery Boy

Fiction
Kate Leary’s work has appeared in Word Riot, Harpur Palate, and Night Train, and she was a fiction editor of Sonora Review. She received her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins and her MFA… Read more »
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Ecosphere

Sarah Brown Weitzman - Ecosphere

Poetry
Sarah Brown Weitzman, a Pushcart nominee in 2012, has had work in numerous journals and anthologies including the North American Review, American Writing, Potomac Review, Art Times, The Bellingham… Read more »
Anne Barngrover
Flashback

Anne Barngrover - Flashback

Poetry
Anne Barngrover's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Indiana Review, Meridian, Ninth Letter, and Witness, among others. She earned her MFA at Florida State University and is… Read more »
Zackary Sholem Berger
Green Aquarium

Zackary Sholem Berger - Green Aquarium

Poetry
Zackary Sholem Berger (http://zackarysholemberger.com) is a writer and translator in Baltimore who writes poetry and prose in English and Yiddish. He is one of the Yiddish Book Center's Translation… Read more »
Lesley Jenike
Had I Been Any God of Power

Lesley Jenike - Had I Been Any God of Power

Poetry
Lesley Jenike is Associate Professor of English and Head of the English and Philosophy Department at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her first book is Ghost of Fashion (CW Books, 2009) and her… Read more »
Robert Earle
How Chung’s Sister Got Her Name

Robert Earle - How Chung’s Sister Got Her Name

Fiction
Robert Earle has published more than forty stories across the U.S. and Canada in journals such as Mississippi Review, The MacGuffin, Inkwell, 34th Parallel, Main Street Rag, The Toronto Review, The… Read more »
Emily Hipchen
I Want Candy

Emily Hipchen - I Want Candy

Creative Nonfiction
Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, one of the editors of a/b: Autobiography Studies, and the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption… Read more »
John Byrne
I’m Going To Let You Go, Okay?

John Byrne - I’m Going To Let You Go, Okay?

Fiction
John Byrne is the founder and chairman of Raw Story, a political news website, and has previously written for The Boston Globe and McClatchy Newspapers. Born in New York and seasoned in Boston, Ohio… Read more »
Matthew Neill Null
Natural Resources

Matthew Neill Null - Natural Resources

Fiction
Matthew Neill Null is a writer from West Virginia and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His short fiction has appeared in Oxford American, Ploughshares, and PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories… Read more »
Bill Ratner
Of This Earth

Bill Ratner - Of This Earth

Creative Nonfiction
Bill Ratner is an eight-time winner of The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles and a Best of Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012 Honoree for Solo Performance. His stories are featured on National Public… Read more »
Margarite Landry
Out of Egypt

Margarite Landry - Out of Egypt

Fiction
Margarite Landry’s short stories have appeared in Nimrod, Bellingham Review, Tampa Review, Provincetown Arts, 2012 Wordstock 10 Anthology (first prize), Vermont Literary Review, and elsewhere. She… Read more »
Skaidrite Stelzer
Remembering Roundness

Skaidrite Stelzer - Remembering Roundness

Poetry
Skaidrite Stelzer is a poet and teacher living in Toledo Ohio. A post-WWII refugee, she grew up in Michigan as a displaced person. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including the Georgetown… Read more »
Brandon Davis Jennings
Spectres

Brandon Davis Jennings - Spectres

Fiction
Brandon Davis Jennings is an Iraq War veteran from West Virginia. He received his MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University, and is currently an English PhD candidate at Western Michigan… Read more »
Rachel Lyon
The Installation

Rachel Lyon - The Installation

Fiction
Rachel Lyon received her MFA in creative writing at Indiana University and her BA at Princeton. She has been, among other things, a radio producer, a teacher of people aged five to twenty-five,… Read more »
Emma Gabrielle Silverman
The Star of David

Emma Gabrielle Silverman - The Star of David

Fiction
Emma Gabrielle Silverman lives in Ithaca, New York where she is a yoga instructor at Cornell University. She has previously published work in Chronogram, Jewish Currents, The Literary Gazette, and… Read more »
Rachel Linnea Brown
To Ply

Rachel Linnea Brown - To Ply

Poetry
Rachel Linnea Brown is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Colorado State University. She earned her BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of Central Missouri in May… Read more »
Daniel O’Malley
Uncle

Daniel O’Malley - Uncle

Fiction
Daniel O’Malley grew up in Cedar Hill, Missouri, and currently lives in Huntington, West Virginia. His fiction has appeared in Meridian. Read more »
Elizabeth Spires
When They Go

Elizabeth Spires - When They Go

Poetry
Elizabeth Spires is the author of six collections of poetry, including Worldling, Nor the Green Blade Rises and The Wave-Maker (W.W. Norton). She has also written six books for children, including The… Read more »

Flashback

Anne Barngrover

I used to fiddle with the cigarette burns
in the quilt my dead grandma made for me.
Open mouths lipsticked with rust—
button ghosts

that showed me worlds lit by green water
whenever I peered through: where the dead
fish and drink beer. I’d whisper to her,
What’s crackin’?

and she’d hoot back, Girl, my fingers plug
gills all damn day and I suck down fried catfish
all night long. I’m glad she’s happy now:
child bride

at fifteen, her boys raised wild like bad stars.
Her skin yellowed a little more each winter.
I found a cicada with her blue eyes
the day she died.
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