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  • Important insights on translation work with Kristine Ong Muslim

    By Jacob Richard Bergeron Kristine Ong Muslim has authored nine books including The Drone Outside, Grim Series, and Night Fish. Some of her work has been translated into other languages. She has translated Three Books, Walang Halong Biro, and others. Melismas by Marlon Hacla is an upcoming work that she has translated which has a…

  • Book Review: Someone You Love is Still Alive

    A geography of sex and violence permeates throughout Ephraim Sommers’s Someone You Love is Still Alive. This energetic text presents readers with contemporary insight into poetic archives that contort racial violence and love, shifting kisses amid murder reports that bend quietly under police badges. Sommers’s pragmatic aesthetic aligns with the vigor of Ai’s fairy-horror narratives…

  • Strange Landscapes of Loss and Longing in Michael Credico’s Heartland Calamitous

    By Couri Johnson In Michael Credico’s debut collection of short stories, Heartland Calamitous, he takes us from fever-dream to fever dream in a strange and fragmented Midwest. Corpses bloat in backyard pools for days, dissolving alongside a marriage; a bear is taken into a family to replace the son he devoured, only to be devoured…

  • Winter 2018 Masthead

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Leigh Camacho Rourks, Patrick Holian Managing Editor: Drew Attana Copy Editor: Stephanie Marker Assistant Copy Editor: Ali Cortez Web Editor: Leigh Camacho Rourks Creative Nonfiction Editor: Rebecca Hazelwood Fiction Editor: Saul Lemerond Assistant Fiction Editor: Patrick Donovan Poetry Editor: Tori Moore Assistant Poetry Editor: Daniel Altenburg Visual Arts Editor: Haley Fedor

  • Summer 2018 Masthead

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Daniel Altenburg and Gina Warren Managing Editor: Britton Andrews Copy Editor: Britton Andrews Social Media Editor: Rebecca Hazelwood Web Editor: Daniel AltenbuCo-Editors-in-Chief: Daniel Altenburg and Gina Warren Managing Editor: Britton Andrews Copy Editor: Britton Andrews Social Media Editor: Rebecca Hazelwood Web Editor: Daniel Altenburg, Gina Warren, Leigh Camacho Rourks Creative Nonfiction Editor: Josie Scanlan…

  • Winter 2019 Masthead

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Daniel Altenburg and Gina Warren Managing Editor: Britton Andrews Copy Editor: Britton Andrews Social Media Editor: Rebecca Hazelwood Web Editor: Daniel Altenburg, Gina Warren, Leigh Camacho Rourks Creative Nonfiction Editor: Josie Scanlan Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor: Katie Baxter Fiction Editor: Dustin L. Hyman Assistant Fiction Editor: Emily Fontenot Poetry Editor: Patti Pangborn Assistant Poetry…

  • Summer 2019 Masthead

    Co-Editors-in-Chief: Ali Ünal and Patti Jeane Pangborn Fiction Editor: Jason Bargueño Assistant Fiction Editor: Jarrett Kaufman Poetry Editor: Lindsey Taylor Assistant Poetry Editor: Em Tielman Creative Nonfiction Editor: Catt Evans Visual Arts & Instagram Editor: Caitlin Vance Public Relations & Social Media: Alyssa Beckitt Blog Editor: Jahidul Alam Copy Editors: Emmanuel Kuada, Chrystyn Albarado Readers:…

  • Spring 2020 Masthead

      Co-Editors-in-Chief: Trevor Fuller and Patti Jeane Pangborn Fiction Editor: Couri Johnson Assistant Fiction Editor: Jarrett Kaufman Poetry Editor: Lindsey Taylor Assistant Poetry Editor: Em Tielman Creative Nonfiction Editor: Catt Evans Visual Arts & Instagram Editor: Caitlin Vance Public Relations & Social Media: Alyssa Beckitt Blog Editor: Jahidul Alam Copy Editors: Emmanuel Kuada, Chrystyn Albarado Readers: Delicia Daniels, Chrystyn Albarado, Spencer Silverthorne, Kimberly Cunningham, Aleya…

  • “How a lake flash-froze a herd of horses” by Erin L. McCoy

    2019-2020 Poetry Contest Second Place

  • Writing the Midwest: An Interview with Frank Bill

    By Jarrett Kaufman Rougarou: Can you talk about your connection to the Midwest? Frank Bill: I was born in Corydon, Indiana. A small rural midwestern town. Raised on my grandparent’s farm and in VFW and American Legion Halls. I was either in the woods with my cousin, father, or grandfather hunting deer, rabbit, squirrel, building…

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