A Black man in a green tank top and black pants holds a crumpled balloon with a smiley against a dreamy purple sky. At his, he has a palm placed over a bright orange with its cross-section facing the viewer. The overall atmosphere is dreamy and colorful. At the top left corner is the following text: BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW FALL/WINTER 2024 51.1

IN THIS ISSUE

Featured Artist

Char Jeré

Contributors

 Poetry

Angie Mazakis | Holly Zhou | Mandy Moe Pwint Tu | Ashley Warner | Hussain Ahmed | Milla van der Have | Brionne Janae | Kim Jensen | Iqra Khan | Dana Tenille Weekes | Lisa Suhair Mujaj | Rajiv Mohabir | Haya Abunasser | Sa Whitley | Thaer Husien

 Prose

Amber Starks | Uyen Phuong Dang | Thalia Williamson | Nicole Chulick | Robert Randolph, Jr. | Megan Walsh | Thea Lim | Mary Leauna Christensen | M. K. Thekkumkattil | Suchita Chadha  

 Comics & Art

 Emily Lewandowski | H. Roth-Brown

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Book Review: Trans Studies by Crystal Odelle, Reviewed by Alayna Powell

by | July 1, 2025 | Feature, Online Edition, Reviews | 0 Comments

Reviewed by Alayna Powell, BWR Poetry Editor    Trans Studies Crystal Odelle 2025 Gold Line Press 78 pagesCrystal Odelle’s Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) is a collection of self-fragments; a collage of dreams and desire buried within “a perpetually...
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“I have simple needs and simple understandings.” Interview with Sophia Terazawa, author of “de Clérambault”

by | May 11, 2025 | Contest Winners, Interviews | 0 Comments

In a new conversation, Black Warrior Review's Editor-in-Chief, Chinaecherem Obor speaks with Sophia Terazawa about non-linear time, past lives and past loves, rituals, vengeance, and getting scammed out of $777.77 by witches in an Appalachian town. Sophia's intriguing...
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Special Online Feature: “de Clérambault” by Sophia Terazawa, 2024 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up

by | May 10, 2025 | Contest Winners, Feature, Online Edition | 0 Comments

Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest“de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this form and the ways the reader is let into...
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“…time as a kind of language … allows me to organize the logic of a story.”: An Interview with Shastri Akella, author of “Reva Speaks a New Dialect”

by | April 29, 2025 | Contest Winners, Interviews, News, Online Edition | 0 Comments

Shastri Akella (he/they) is a queer migrant of color who is neurodivergent and comes from a working class background. Their debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published in 2023 by Flatiron Books (USA) and Penguin (India). It is a queer bildungsroman set in 90s India....
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Special Online Feature: “Reva Speaks a New Dialect” by Fiction Contest Runner-up, Shastri Akella

by | April 24, 2025 | Archive, Feature | 0 Comments

Reva Speaks a New Dialectby Shastri AkellaBWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-upReva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
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