Editor: Beth Mead - From the Editor
Assistant Editor: Eve Jones
Managing Editors: Elizabeth A. Zerkel, Anothai Kaewkaen
Cover Design and Journal Layout
Christopher Mead
Cover Photographs:
Catherine Essner
Interior Photographs:
Leca K. Barker, Catherine Essner, Beth Mead, Virginia Newell
Contributor Bios:
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Editorial Assistants
Leca K. Barker
Carissa Barker
Nick Bateman
Mary I. Caldwell
Jennifer C. Cowgill
E. J. Deal
Catherine Essner
Adrienne J. Hawkins
Anothai Kaewkaen
Virginia Newell
Trevor Roe
Contributors - Fiction
Marie Hummer — Tinder*
W. Scott Thomason — I Am Goliath
Jens Birk — The Maze
Robert Moulthrop — Barzini to the Rescue
Jessica Barksdale — Starving
Contributors - Poetry
Paul Scot August — Parallel Lines Meeting in Flame*
Lindsey Raven Miller — For a Ceramicist*
Carley Besl — The Uncertainty Principle
Sherilyn Lee — Back When Shelves Were the Only Furniture We Owned
Ray Holmes — From High-Hung Planters*
Chris Haven — The Daughters of the Orchard
Steven Ray Smith — Follow*
Doris Ferleger — The Porcupine Lady
Marvin Shackelford — Identity
Alex Stolis — Untitled story of living on a fault line, Untitled words made of flesh and memory
Erin Coughlin Hollowell — Black Hat
Jennifer Tappenden — Asleep
Ronja Vieth — What’s Your Dosha?
Nylah Lyman — Thoughts on Pigs and Goats
Alesia Thone Hill — Offal
Louisa Howerow — Our Bones Are Waiting for Your Bones
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky — Last Reckoning
John McCarthy — How to Disappear
Kyle Hemmings — Queen Marie
Contributors - Essays
J. David Bell — Moon Man
Claudia A. Geagan — Durable Powers
Nimi Finnigan — Madame Colo
Wendy Fontaine — Drift
Lisa Haag Kang — Sea Cucumbers and Flying Solo*