Issue Three

SPRING 2022

Kathleen Driskell, Editor in Chief

Editor's Note

Prose

Tommy Dean

Jessy Easton

Michael Henson

Crystal Wilkinson

Lyric

Dmitry Blizniuk

Akhim Yuseff Cabey

Alexander Etheridge

Julia Gibson

January Gill O'Neil

Julia Koets

Andrew Najberg

Tatiana Retivov

F. Daniel Rzicznek

Fernando Valverde (trans. by Carolyn Forché)

three micro fictions

The Things We Leave Out

Bruise

Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts

A Shard of Snow Queen

Kurt Cobain Closes the Door of His Greenhouse

Book Reviews

Laura Johnsrude

Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer

Robin Lippincott

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway by Robin Black

Jeremy Paden

America by Fernando Valverde, translated by Carolyn Forché

The Practice of Writing

Beth Ann Bauman

Bruce Marshall Romans

Crafting Surprise in Fiction

On Fear

Masthead

Kathleen Driskell

Ellyn Lichvar

Lynnell Edwards

Katy Yocom

Editor in Chief

Managing Editor

Associate Editor/Book Review Editor

Associate Editor

Laura Johnsrude

Richard Childers

Tyrel Kessinger

Assistant Book Review Editor

Student Editor

Sarah Ladd

Student Editor

Lauren Mulvihill

Hannah Palmer

Suzanne Robertson

Kylie Yockey

Student Editor

Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing

Spalding University

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