In Mikhail Bulgakov’s unfinished satire Black Snow, translated into English by Michael Glenny in 2005, a harried writer has the misfortune of having one of his novels picked up by the Independent Theatre, a legendary and mysterious Moscow institution …
Gina Chung’s debut novel, Sea Change, intimately follows first-person narrator Ro, who is stricken by grief. Ro works an entry-level job at an aquarium, despite freshly entering her thirties. She is adrift: estranged from her mother, their relationship is …
Nancy Nguyen grew up in Orange County, California, and is currently earning her PhD in English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, swamp pink, Jellyfish Review, and Pigeonholes. A 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2021 Susanna McCorkle Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Nguyen is working on a novel and collection about women, magic, bodies, and war.
From an initial diagnosis of depression at nineteen, to the eventual diagnoses of multiple mental and physical illnesses in the two decades that followed, Jen Soriano has lived a lifetime of chronic pain. Her debut essay collection, Nervous: Essays on …
Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is the 2022–25 writer-in-residence at Occidental College and lives in Los Angeles.
In the opening poem of Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph describes “the vehicle still leagues away from rescue.” She is telling us the story of her own traumatic brain injury, and she is giving us a version of …
Asa Drake is a Filipina American poet and essayist in Central Florida. Her chapbook, “One Way to Listen,” was selected by Taneum Bambrick as the winner of Gold Line Press’s 2021 Poetry Chapbook Contest. She has received fellowships and awards from the 92NY Discovery Poetry Contest, Tin House, and Idyllwild Arts. Her most recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Sierra Magazine, MQR Mixtape, and Waxwing.
There was a time when I hated the South and my white roots. That is, I felt ashamed of myself and my people. After moving away and returning, I now call the South home again, or home perhaps for the …
