40.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 2014

MASTHEAD

EDITOR: Brandi Wells                       MANAGING EDITOR: Kirby Johnson

FICTION EDITOR:  Jake Kinstler       NONFICTION EDITOR: Leia Penina Wilson

POETRY EDITOR: Anne Brettell       DESIGN EDITOR: Krystin Gollihue

ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Zachary Doss, Katy Gunn, Robert Hitt, Joe Lucido, Luke Percy, Meghan Tear Plummer, Katy Rossing, Christanthi Tsingos, Leia Penina Wilson

ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Ryan Bollenbach, Zachary Doss, Katy Gunn, Robert Hitt, Saeide Mirzaei, Connor Towne O’Neill, Luke Percy, Steve Reaugh, Maggie Smith, Bethany Startin

ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Ryan Bollenbach, Zachary Doss, Freya Gibbon, Robert Hitt, Steve Reaugh, Katy Rossing, Bethany Startin, Bronwyn Valentine, Ben Voigt, Leia Penina Wilson, Theodora Ziolkowski

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Abby Melton, Bronwyn Valentine, Theodora Ziolkowski

FICTION

Chad Brandon Anderson: Carrier 

Mari ChristmasBaby (2013 Fiction Contest Winner)

Sabrina Orah Mark: The Taxmen  |  Mother at the Dentist

T.D. Storm: The Grindylow and the Former Child Actor

NONFICTION

Meredith Clark: from Lyrebird (2013 Nonfiction Contest Winner)

Sara Finnerty: We Are Possessed

Dong Li: from the tale in grey [second life after death]

Leah Poole Osowski: Moonstone

POETRY

Hannah AizenmanHistory, or Umbilicus (2013 Poetry Contest Winner)

Toby Altman: PIG IRON BALLET (a style of joy)  |  HOMILY (suppose savoir)  |  RHAPSODE (of unsewing)  |  ESSAY (on ordinary language)

Cindy Beebe: I Wanted to Write About the Almost and the Once

Kelly Connor: LOSE EVERY LB OF YOUR CORPOREAL FORM WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!

Kallie Falandays: Imagine If Everyone You Ever Loved Never Stopped

Matthew Fee: A Theory of Wind Turbines  |  A Theory of Landscapes  |  A Theory of Space

FEATURE

Diana Arterian: Agrippina the Younger

C Dylan Basset: from The Invention of Monsters, or a Performance in One Act

Blake Butler: Surface

Laurie Ann Cedilnik: Wrong Person

Claire Donato: The New Father

Matthew Gavin Frank: A Hopeless Mimic Engages the California Roll

Hannah Gamble: The Queen  |  A Tiny Spot  |  Indications that Her Honesty

Lauren Hilger: The Announcement

Tim Jones-Yelvington: Tim Jones-Yelvington Was a Supermodel

Amy Lawless: Fear of Missing Out

Joanna Ruocco: The Gourd  |  Age-Defying Coverage

Jayme Russell: As the World Falls Down

ART

Cahill Wessell: Football Lovin’ (cover)

CHAPBOOK

Sandy Florian: [speak and spell]