43.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 2017
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Bronwyn Valentine MANAGING EDITOR: Gail Aronson
FICTION EDITOR: Reem Abu-Baker NONFICTION EDITOR: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
POETRY EDITOR: shelley feller DESIGN EDITOR: Holly Burdorff
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Rebecca Brown, Chase Burke, Emily Coon, Julia Coursey, Wendy Dinwiddie, shelley feller, Natalie Lima, Michelle Meyers, JD Scott
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Rebecca Brown, Sammi Bryan, Chase Burke, Sarah N. Cheshire, Julia Coursey, Wendy Dinwiddie, shelley feller, Courtney M. Eason, Kit Emslie, Chelsea Klopp, Natalie Lima, Jenna Lyles, JD Scott, Rashanda Williams
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Ivonne Ayala, Jake Boyd, Rebecca Brown, Sammi Bryan, Chase Burke, Julia Coursey, Wendy Dinwiddie, Courtney M. Eason, Diamond Forde, Chelsea Klopp, Grant Gerald Miller, Jessica Pacitto, JD Scott, Brett Shaw, Elizabth Theriot, Rashanda Williams
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Christina Ausley, Sarah Harden, Chengru He, Codie Harris, Roman Paoletti, David Russell, Nick Summers
FICTION
Ron A. Austin: Muscled Clean Out the Dirt
Andi Boyd: , among others
Scott Fenton: Possible Origin Stories for an Aspiring Boy Wonder
Zeynep Özakat: Aviculture
MR Sheffield: I Could Love These Women
Ava Tomasula y Garcia: Videoteca Fin del Mundo (2016 Fiction Contest Winner)
NONFICTION
Rocket Caleshu: Whatever (2016 Nonfiction Contest Winner)
Sally J. Johnson: Limnology
T Kira Madden: Cousin Cindy
Alexander Pines: Monster Glossary
Timothy Schirmer: In Universe-Time I am Already Dead
James A.H. White: How We Became American
POETRY
Ashley Colley: from The Cow Suit
Meg Freitag: The Gospel According to Edith | Poem in Which I wear the Same Clothes as Yesterday
Kirsten Ihns: primer fidelis | the autobiographical subject (2016 Poetry Contest Winner)
Liam Swanson: The Universe Is Egg Shaped I am Egg Shaped Everything Is Egg Shaped
Jake Syersak: Of L’Air de, Parantheses, Isaac Newton, & Bones Was-ing
Alethea Tusher: conflict resolution
HR Webster: BRCA 1 / BRCA 2
FEATURE
Kaveh Akbar: I Won’t Lie This Plague of Gratitude | I Could Go On | Orange Slices
Aaron Apps: Without, Faith | Because I Cried After Calling | Visible and Invisible
Anne Boyer: Death and the Maiden
Katy Chrisler: Seeds & Eggs | Zero Datum | Prime
CAConrad: from Mount Monadnock Transmissions
Johanna Hedva: Zinat
Justin Phillip Reed: Villainy
Melissa R. Sipin: Saudade | My Lola, the River | Saudade, II
Graphic Writing
Vidhu Aggarwal and Bishakh Som: Avatar of the Bindi, or Dot Friend
ART
Nakeya Brown: The Art of Sealing Ends (cover)
CHAPBOOK
Sara Jane Stoner: Grief Hour