Stephanie McCarley Dugger
Housebreak

Stephanie McCarley Dugger - Housebreak

Poetry
Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s first collection of poetry, Either Way You’re Done (2017), was published by Sundress Publications. Her chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), was winner of the… Read more »
Sara Henning
Letter in the Shape of a Banyan Tree

Sara Henning - Letter in the Shape of a Banyan Tree

Poetry
Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, cowinner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her latest collection of poems, Terra… Read more »
Francine Witte
My Father in the Front Door

Francine Witte - My Father in the Front Door

Poetry
Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, and Passages North. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press), The… Read more »
Rose Auslander
Praise the wind in your face, the hill rising before you

Rose Auslander - Praise the wind in your face, the hill rising before you

Poetry
Rose Auslander lives on Cape Cod. Obsessed with water, she is the author of the book Wild Water Child, the chapbooks Folding Water, Hints, and The Dolphin in the Gowanus, and poems in the Berkeley… Read more »
Lisa Suhair Majaj
True Lies

Lisa Suhair Majaj - True Lies

Poetry
Lisa Suhair Majaj, a Palestinian-American, is the author of Geographies of Light (Del Sol Press Poetry Prize winner), and poems and essays in many international publications. Her writing has been used… Read more »

True Lies

Lisa Suhair Majaj

My childhood was uneventful, and happy. My father raised wild goats in a small mountain village adrift with the odor of thyme. My mother baked bread on stones, wove blankets of goat hair, coaxed jam out of cactus fruit. Each morning I rose before dawn for the day’s trek to water, balancing a jug on my head down the long steep path. In the winter we roasted chestnuts at the family hearth, told tall tales to entertain each other through the long dark nights. This was one of them.
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