42.2 | SPRING/SUMMER 2018
MASTHEAD
EDITOR: Gail Aronson
MANAGING EDITOR: shelley feller
FICTION EDITOR: Emrys Donaldson
NONFICTION EDITOR: Nabila Lovelace
POETRY EDITOR: Sammi Bryan
DESIGN EDITOR: RBrown
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITORS: Jake Boyd, Matt Brinkley, RBrown, Chase Burke, Jeremy Burke, Reilly D. Cox, Lily Davenport, Wendy Dinwiddle, shelley feller, Kira Frank, Mark Galarrita, Mollie Gattman, Chelsea Klopp, Michelle Meyers, William Reilly, Hailee Sattavara, Jack Saul
ASSISTANT NONFICTION EDITORS: Sarah Barnes, Wendy Dinwiddle, shelley feller, Chelsea Klopp, Jenna Lyles, William Reilly, Elizabeth Theriot
ASSISTANT POETRY EDITORS: Marissa Bennett, Jake Boyd, RBrown, Wendy Dinwiddle, M.K. Foster, Courtney Kalmbach, Chelsea Klopp, Jenna Lyles, Emily Montgomery, Jane Morton, Jessica Pacitto, Meredith Ramella, Hailee Sattavara, Elizabeth Theriot, Olivia Townsend, Natalie Welch
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Mark Galarrita, Bradley Helms, Jack Saul, Morgan Shiver, Camryn Walker
FICTION
Claire Miye Stanford: The Sea Women
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint: Bliss Place
Samantha Edmonds: The Space Poet
John Stintzi: Going Towards Gadd
Tess Allard: The World Holds What It Remembers Most
(2017 Fiction Contest Winner)
NONFICTION
Jane Wong: Root Canal Street
Sarah Fonseca: The Fourth State:Some Course Notes
Tony Wei Ling: The Best Lighting for My Body Was at the White Horse Inn and Bar, Oakland, California
(2017 Nonfiction Contest Winner)
M.J. Gette: Auto-Da-Fé: Confession And Camouflauge
(2018 Flash Prose Contest Winner)
Beth Bachman: Ursonate
POETRY
Kristi Maxwell: Ought
Sarah María Medina: From a Poet to her Rumbero (2017 Poetry Contest Winner)
Carlina Duan: Mary
Denise Jarrott: nymph theory:fiber
Montreux Rotholtz: Sister (Ghost)
Taisia Kitaiskaia: The Nightgown
GRAPHIC PROSE
Aubrey Hirsch: The Island
FEATURE
Aurora Masum-Javed: American Offering
Donika Kelly:
Oracle
Portrait of My Father as a Winged Boar
The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings
Alison C. Rollins:
Metadata Is Data About Data
Come Hell Or High Water
Kenzie Allen:
Solkatt
Tidsoptimist
Rivers Solomon: Prior to Being Swallowed Up
Muriel Leung: A Careful List of All My Failures
Rosebud Ben-Oni: from The Last Great Adventure Is You
Jessica Rey Bergamino: from [ girlhood: a haunting ]
ART
Lisa Krannichfeld: Undomesticated Interior No. 7 (cover)
CHAPBOOK
Sade LaNay: self portrait