2015 Contest: Fiction Runner-up FELLOWSHIP by Kimberly King Parsons
Writing by Kimberly King Parsons has appeared or is forthcoming in New South, Gigantic, Fiction Southeast, Fanzine, Time Out New York, and elsewhere. Ploughshares recently featured her story "Fiddlebacks" in their column "The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This...
2015 Contest: Poetry Runner-up WOLFMOON by Mary-Alice Daniel
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Mary-Alice Daniel was born in Northern Nigeria and raised in the suburbs of London and Nashville, TN. After attending Yale University, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her adopted home is Los...
2015 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Mark Baumer
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Mark Baumer lives in Providence, RI. He works in a library. His website is thebaumer.com. Interview by RYAN BOLLENBACH Black Warrior Review: In one of the stanzas of your winning poem ‘b careful’ you write: “It feels...
Chapbook Review: ALL THE WATER ALL THE WAVES by Kallie Falandays
All the Water All the Waves Kallie Falandays 2015 dancing girl press Review by M. K. Foster “Last morning… “This morning… “Tomorrow… “Before… “When… “When… “When… —or so time is mythically marked and unmarked across the dangerously surreal landscape of Kallie...
2015 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Winner Jill Rosenberg
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Jill Rosenberg has a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana. Her stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, Crazyhorse, The North American Review, and other journals. She...
2015 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up THREE GREAT LYRIC PASSAGES by Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin is the author of The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013). He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and he was the inaugural winner of The Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Award for Veterans. He teaches at Gettysburg College. 2015 nonfiction judge Mary...
Review: THE YEAR OF PERFECT HAPPINESS by Becky Adnot-Haynes
The Year of Perfect Happiness Becky Adnot-Haynes 2014 University of North Texas Press 192 pages Review by CHASE BURKE Take a quick look at the cover of Becky Adnot-Haynes’s collection of stories The Year of Perfect Happiness, which won the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter...
42.2 Feature: Shelley Puhak’s Multimedia Guide through “Eva, she kill her one daughter”
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Shelley Puhak is a poet and essayist from Baltimore. She is the author of two poetry collections, the more recent of which, Guinevere in Baltimore, was selected by Charles Simic for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize....
2015 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Will McGrath
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Will McGrath won the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 SER Narrative Nonfiction Prize. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs and has been translated into Chinese and...
42.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Click here to check out more 42.2 featured content. Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the Japanese folklore-inspired story collection, Where We Go When All We Are Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press). His work has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Green...