34.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 2008
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Alissa Nutting MANAGING EDITOR: Nick Parker
FICTION EDITOR: Lucas Southworth NONFICTION EDITOR: Shrode Hargis
POETRY EDITOR: David Welch DESIGN EDITOR: Brian Oliu
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Emily Conner, Nik De Dominic, Christopher Hellwig, Nicholas Helms, BJ Hollars, Heather Humann, Andy Johnson, Jeremy Lespi, Kate Lorenz, Cait Lovely, Eric Bracken McMillin, Nick Pincumbe, Adam Weinstein
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Elizabeth Wade Buckalew, Alex Chambers, Emily Conner, BJ Hollars, Heather Humann, Kate Lorenz, Robin Lee Mozer, Laura Navratil, Colin Rafferty, John Wingard
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Kristin Aardsma, Alex Chambers, Jeremy Hawkins, S. Whitney Holmes, Melissa Hull, Breanne LeJeune, Kate Lorenz, Michael Marberry, Brian Morrison, Laura Navratil, Colin Rafferty, Laurence Ross, Justin Runge, Raymond Wachter, Patricia Waters
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Kristin Aardsma, BJ Hollars, Kelly Prisoc, Justin Runge
FICTION
Steve Davenport: Mackey Rottler’s Q to Z
Greg Hrbek: Sagittarius (2007 Fiction Contest Winner)
M. Lynx Qualey: Lack
Stephen Tuttle: The Two Mr. Greens
NONFICTION
Sheryl St. Germain: Unforgiven: how Not to Write an Essay
Mark Spitzer: Some Messy Nessie Gar Myths & Other Distortions
POETRY
Mary Jo Bang: H Is Here Is a Song, Now Sing | W Is for Whatever
Ashley Capps: Morels | Able
Jill Osier: The Steps in the Snow Lead Around and Around a Place Called Want
Chad Parmenter: Batellite, Batellite for Love (2007 Poetry Contest Winner)
Kevin Prufer: The Suicides | The War Dead
Karen Rigby: The Story of Adam and Eve
Zanni Schauffler: An Affair, Briefly
William D. Waltz: A Shelter Fake Book | Human Snack
FEATURE
Brittney Carmen: How Birds Are Drawn to Headlights, How Girls, Even in Sunlight, Disappear (nominated by David McGlynn)
Laura LeCorgne: The Point of View Shifts (nominated by Anne Germanacos)
Nate Martin: We’re Pregnant (nominated by Deb Olin Unferth)
Jay Varner: Disappearances (nominated by Gary Fincke)
ART
Maya Hayuk: Mural at the Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, October 18, 2007 (cover)
Graphic Writing
Damien Jay & James Austin Murray: Warsaw
Melanie Lewis: Just This Side of Heaven
CHAPBOOK
Beth Bachmann: Evasion