Winter 2017 Volume 39, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ART

Shawna Gilmore, Holding Up a Broken Star

FICTION

Courtney Bird, Liam and the Head (Finalist for the 2016 Fiction Prize)
Kelsey Ronan, Northern Soul
Micah Dean Hicks, House of Locks and Doors (Finalist for the 2016 Fiction Prize)
Heidi Diehl, Heavy Cousin
Maggie O'Brien, everything shined (Finalist for the 2016 Fiction Prize
Becky Adnot-Haynes, What Are You Afraid Of?
Katie M. Flynn, In the Skin (Finalist for the 2016 Fiction Prize)
Chloe Benjamin, Wherever You Were, There You Are
C.A. Schaefer, Robber Girl
John Haggerty, The Expiation That Pleaseth the Lord
Maryse Meijer, Alice
Kimberly King Parsons, Nothing Before Something (2016 Prize Winner)

POETRY

Kristen Steenbeeke, Apocalypse Dream Again (2017 Poetry Prize Winner)
Canese Jarboe, How Do You Love Someone Who Wants to Be All Ghost?
Canese Jarboe, Landscape with My Father & a Dead Man's Harmonica
Canese Jarboe, Rodeo Queen
Tianru Wang, A family recipe that cannot be followed written down (Finalist for the 2017 Poetry Prize)
Sarah León, Beach City
Nicole Stockburger, How to Marry the Land (Finalist for the 2017 Poetry Prize)
Brad Trumpfheller, Conditions for a Legacy
Mirza Ghālib, Children's Play (Translated from the Urdu by Maaz Bin Bilal)
Jennifer Givhan, The Dying Girl & the Date Palm
William Brewer, An Hour
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Name Search
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, In the Age of los Zetas
Chelsea Dingman, Redaction
Michelle Brittan Rosado, Visitations with Unmarried Self
Jessica Hincapie, Stand-In for a Ghost at a Séance (Finalist for the 2017 Poetry Prize)

NONFICTION

Wendy A. Gaudin, The Marian Apparition
Siân Griffiths, Cunt
Tessa Mellas, Father Christopher Knows the Hymn

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Tessa Yang

CONSULTING EDITOR

Su Cho

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Essence London

FICTION EDITOR

Maggie Su

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Anna Cabe
Ryann Eastman
Gionni Ponce

POETRY EDITOR

Emily Corwin

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

Anna Cabe
Patrick Kindig

POETRY READER

Joseph Thornton

NONFICTION EDITOR

Anthony Correale

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITORS

Anna Cabe
Gionni Ponce

NONFICTION READER

Joseph Thornton

WEB EDITOR

Hannah Thompson

EDITORIAL INTERNS

Kate Bruni
Celia Daniels
Sophia Goris
Clark Gudas
Klancy Hoover

PRIZE JUDGES

Aimee Bender, 2016 Fiction Prize judge
Ross Gay, 2017 Poetry Prize judge