Daniel Uncapher is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah with an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was a Nicholas Sparks fellow. A queer and disabled Mississippian, his work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Sun, The Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Epoch, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House, and others.

One of the most rewarding results of public domain collage is the access that the cacophony of canon gives me to my own voice, especially when writing about myself. Whether I am trying to salvage the language I steal or subvert it, I always end up closer to myself and to the shape of my own thoughts than I started. “Faint Illuminations of the Unknowable” doubles down on this multiplicity by sharing actual stories from the public domain, fabula that are not my own and yet speak to the same mysteries I feel myself routinely caught up in. The distinction between self and community becomes increasingly difficult to pin down!