Winter 2020, Volume 42, Number 2, Variant 1

Cover Art

Abe Odedina, "Scorched Earth"

Fiction

Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, "Wild Mushrooms"

María José Candela, "Air Hunger"

Emily B. Cataneo, "Vainglory"

K. Gorcheva-Newberry, "Beloveds"

Chelsey Grasso, "A City on Its Side"

Laura Schmitt, "Something With Wings"

Alyssa Songsiridej, "Predator and Prey"

Poetry

Nadia Alexis, "Suppose You Fail to Cover Your Mouth & So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body"

Bai Nai (tr. by Kate Costello), "Returning an Eye"

Wo Chan, "I Looked at You and I Said Yes"

Cody Dunn, "North Carolina"

Steven Duong, "Best Case Scenario"

Dylan J. Ecker, "Millie, the Halfmoon Beta"

Bernard Ferguson, "laugh track"

Rachel Galvin, "Corpse Pose"

Kabel Mishka Ligot, "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Samsara / Self-Portrait as a Forbes Park Squirrel"

Derek Otsuji, "The Killing of a Hawaiian Monk Seal"

Grazia Rutherford-Swan, "aphasia," "brain damage in southern oregon"

Seth Thill, "Stan Lee Came Up with Spider-Man Because He Saw a Fly Land on a Wall and Decided There Needed to Be a Superhero that Could Stick to Walls"

Keith S. Wilson, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Nonfiction

May-lee Chai, "Moon Faces"

Cris Harris, "Survivor"

Cate Hodorowicz, "Tracking Foxes"

Lawrence Lenhart, "Dry-Safe and Together"

Raksha Vasudevan, "Searching for Rani"

Vonetta Young, "Prep Life"

MASTHEAD

EDITOR

Alberto Sveum

CONSULTING EDITOR

Mariah Gese

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Shreya Fadia

FICTION EDITOR

Jenna Wengler

ASSOCIATE FICTION EDITORS

Laura Dzubay
Joe Hohman
Rose Zinnia
Denise Weisz

POETRY EDITOR

Soleil Davíd

ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITORS

janan alexandra
Austin Araujo
L. Renée
Rose Zinnia

NONFICTION EDITOR

L. Renée

ASSOCIATE NONFICTION EDITORS

Essence London
Rose Zinnia

READERS

Sabrina Ghaus
El Williams

INTERNS 

Maya Goldfarb

Morgan Heck

Marissa Hubbard

Jessica Kim

Emma Weise