Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019 | Masthead

Essays

Word From the Editor

On the Importance of Young Adult Fiction

True Passion in Paradise

Representation of Systemic Racism

Fiction

Red Bird Rising

Vows

When Light Is Put Away

Hiatus

Beyond the Waters of Time

Poetry

Rets

A Definition

Na

Triptych of the Adobe-Cotta Army, los frijoles ya se quemaron, & Apology to Her Majesty, Queen Cardi B

Not Your Color

Mordekhai

Writing for Young People

Lunch Special

Carmen Maria Machado, Author

Interviews

Issac Bailey, Author

Naima Coster, Author

Christoper Castellani, Author

Natashia Deón, Author

Isaac Fitzgerald, Editor, Essayist

Vandana Khanna, Poet

Ada Limón, Author, Poet

Rodolfo Montalvo, Author, Illustrator

Bich Minh Nguyen, Author

Creative Nonfiction

Lessons in Language

She’s Not There

Fear of Prayer: An Atheist’s Lament

Indelible Laughter

Saturn’s Return

Letters from My Childhood

Mack Truck

Shifting Gear

Flash Prose

Bread

A Mountain of Invertebrates

Patty Cakes

A Compendium of Earthquakes

Upward Snow

Camellias in Black and Gray

Trust Me, Iago

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Memento Meninges

Secret Ingredients

In the Zone

Art

Signs of Life: Mixed Media

F r a g m e n t s/Chaos: Mixed Media

Vibrancy: Oil Painting

Light Garden: Digital Art

Sustained Attention: Graphite

Small Oddity: Digital Gifs

NLB: Oil Painting

The World to Me was a Secret: Mixed Media

Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts

Ancient Musical Legend

The Sun’s Taste

Ekeko

Translation

Before Spring, XXXV., Advent, & Omega

Black Magic

The Love Designer

The Toad