Trees Speak by Li Sian Goh
Li Sian Goh is a writer and researcher. Born and raised in Singapore, she now lives in New York, where she is at work on a short story collection and a novel. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Joyland Magazine, swamp pink, and No Tokens, and The Offing. For 2024, she is a Kweli Emerging Writer Fellow and a Periplus Fellow.
“I Write for My Beloveds”: An Interview with Javeria Hasnain
Javeria Hasnain is a poet, translator, and educator from Karachi, and the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024). Her poetry and prose have appeared widely, including in Pleiades, Poet Lore, Foglifter, beestung, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Poetry from The New School, and has received fellowships and scholarships from Fulbright, Teachers & Writers, and Sewanee Writers Conference, among others.
Shlagha Borah (she/her) is from Assam, India. Her work appears in Poetry Northwest, Cincinnati Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is an Assistant Editor at The Offing. She’s a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. Her work has been supported by Brooklyn Poets, The Hambidge Center, The Peter Bullough Foundation, VCCA, among others. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India. Her work is available at www.shlaghaborah.com.
Risking the Hug: An Examination of Sentimentality and Sincerity in Lars and the Real Girl by Daniel Abiva Hunt
Daniel Abiva Hunt holds an MFA from the University of Houston. His stories and essays have appeared in New England Review, The Masters Review, CRAFT, Maine Review, Portland Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches and studies fiction.
Poetic Endings: Nailing Down the Threshold by Dia Calhoun and Deborah Bacharach
Deborah Bacharach (left photo) is the author of two full length poetry collections Shake & Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021) and After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her poems, book reviews and essays have been published in Poetry Ireland Review, New Letters, Poet Lore and The Writer’s Chronicle among many others, and she has received a Pushcart prize honorable mention. She is currently a poetry reader for SWWIM and Whale Road Review and a mentor with PEN America. She lives in Seattle. Find out more about her at DeborahBacharach.com.
Dia Calhoun (right photo) is the author of seven young adult novels, including two verse novels, After the River the Sun and Eva of the Farm (Atheneum, 2013, 2012). She has won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; published poems and essays in The Nashville Review, The Writer’s Chronicle; EcoTheo Review; MORIA Literary Magazine; And Blue Will Rise Over Yellow: An International Poetry Anthology for Ukraine, and others. She co-founded readergirlz, recipient of The National Book Foundation Innovations in Reading Prize and taught creative writing at Seattle University and Stony Brook University. More at diacalhoun.com.
The Manananggal as Mythmaking by Melanie Manuel
Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet. She obtained her BA from UC Davis in English and Asian American Studies and is currently attending SDSU for her MFA in poetry. She is a recipient of the Prebys Creative Writing Scholarship, the Master’s Research Fellowship, and most recently, the Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo Scholarship. She is the Production Editor for PIOnline and teaches in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies department. Her work has been published by Third Iris Zine and North American Review, and she has forthcoming work with minnesota review, Porkbelly Press, and Zone 3.
god mornings, tiger nights by Nuha Fariha
Reviewed by Shlagha Borah | December 7, 2023Game Over Books, 2023Paperback, $18 “I traveled light like all daughters, carrying only my weight out of the world.” from “A Brief Travel Advisory” by Nuha Fariha Girlhood, nationhood, and an identity smeared across borders – Nuha Fariha’s collection of poems, god mornings, tiger nights, asks us to […]
All Hat, No Cattle by Mariah Rigg
Reviewed by Sarah Harshbarger | August 8, 2023Bull City Press, 2023Paperback, $4.99 Mariah Rigg’s chapbook All Hat, No Cattle is a masterclass in “Compressions,” the title of its fifth micro-essay. The collection moves easily through time and space, using vivid images and keen observations as modes of transport. The title comes from the narrator’s partner, […]
Maybe This Is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips
Reviewed by Shlagha Borah | July 21, 2023 Split/Lip Press, 2023 Paperback, $12 Tucker Leighty-Phillips’ flash fiction chapbook, Maybe This Is What I Deserve, is like blue cheese: it demands your undivided attention. It isn’t for quick, on-the-go consumption but a collection to be relished, slowly, with utmost care. The collection starts with two epigraphs, […]
Delightfully Weird by Tommy Dean
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021), and a full flash collection, Hollows (Alternating Current Press 2022). He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, Best Small Fiction 2019 and 2022, Monkeybicycle, and numerous litmags. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.
Wristwatches and Miniature Clocks by Daniel Abiva Hunt
Daniel Abiva Hunt is a writer from South Jersey. His stories and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Masters Review, CRAFT, The Maine Review, Portland Review, and elsewhere. He previously served as assistant fiction editor for Gulf Coast, and he is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches and studies fiction.