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Call for Submissions: Borders Between Worlds

Whether your worlds are real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, for a special feature in our Summer 2022 issue, we’re seeking work that examines the borders between them. Send us your work about crossing borders, blurred borders, collapsed borders, about living on the edge. Think natural borders, socially constructed and geopolitical borders, or perhaps the space between life and death. Send us your haunted places and portals to fairylands; explore the boundaries that keep out and keep in. Cross the stratosphere, go deep underground, get lost in the wilds. Whatever your borders, wherever your worlds, we want to see them.

Character-driven speculative work is welcome, and we are especially excited by work that engages deeply with place.

43.1 SNEAK PEEK: SOLO BY ANGEL NAFIS

Here’s “Solo,” by Angel Nafis, featured in our summer 2021 issue:

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Read more by Angel Nafis and by many others in Indiana Review issue 43.1, available for purchase here.

Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion. She earned her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College. Nafis is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is founder and curator of the Greenlight Poetry Salon. With Morgan Parker, she runs The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Brooklyn.

Art by Arghavan Khosravi.

Review – Patricia Engel’s Infinite Country

Reviewed by Laura Dzubay

There are some moments that are so wrought with potential, they exist for eternity. In Infinite Country, Patricia Engel travels through and between these moments as they’re experienced by the five members of a family divided between Colombia and America, carefully uncovering the details of their lives one era at a time and guiding the reader through the overlapping stories and mythologies that have led them to the present moment.

43.1 SNEAK PEEK: NOMEN BE BY INDRANI SENGUPTA

The summer issue of Indiana Review is out now! Here’s a look at one of the issue’s poems, by Indrani Sengupta.

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Read more by Indrani Sengupta and by many others in Indiana Review issue 43.1, available for purchase here.

Indrani Sengupta is a poet from Kolkata, India, currently braving Illinois weather. She received her MFA in poetry from Boise State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southeast Review, Grimoire Magazine, and elsewhere.

Art by Shanequa Gay.

43.1 SNEAK PEEK: PANELÁK STORIES by DANIELA KUKRECHTOVÁ

The summer issue of Indiana Review is out now! Here’s a look at an excerpt from Daniela Kukrechtová’s nonfiction piece, “Panelák Stories.”

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Read the rest in Indiana Review issue 43.1, available for purchase here.

Daniela Kukrechtová is a Czech/US binational. She is a writer, scholar, and translator. She teaches American literature at Emerson College. Her scholarly work has been published in journals such as African American Review and the CEA Critic. Her poems and translations have appeared in Hollins Critic and CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation and her nonfiction in Persephone’s Daughters.