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Issue 17

Tennessee Homesick Blues by Kate Barber

Kathryn M. Barber grew up in the mountains along the Tennessee/Virginia state line. She holds degrees from Mississippi State University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Carson-Newman University. Currently, she is the Editorial Director for Press Pause Press and lives on the shores of North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Masters Review,The Pinch, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review, and elsewhere.

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Issue 17

“Gum” and “Anything to Mess it Up” by Allison Field Bell

Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and she holds an MFA from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Without Woman or Body, forthcoming 2025 from Finishing Line Press and the creative nonfiction chapbook, Edge of the Sea, forthcoming 2025 from Cutbank. Allison’s prose appears or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.

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