2021 | issue 4.0

Table of Contents

pencil and ink drawing of a house with the sky inside

Pass By, Hedwige Jacobs

CATEGORIES

Creative Prose

You Stinker

You Stinker

There were plenty of kids we made fun of in high school — the girl with the face tattoo; the foreign exchange student from...

Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Mom and Dad knocked briefly and rushed into my room. Half-asleep, I dug one foot, then the other, into the carpet. It was a...

The Stone

The Stone

2021At the top of the hill whose slope is bisected by the Living Stone, there lies a ruined castle that once belonged to a...

Essays

Poetry

Rapid Transit

Rapid Transit

Strangers packed in love seatsdull metal bars covered in stolenlives to grip overheadstation names bear new font butchalk...

Going Out

Going Out

I went out todayfor the first timein a while.I thought about wearingmy new black dressbut decided it might be betterfor a...

Saturday’s Haze

Saturday’s Haze

Texas              Chocolatedouble       butter-sticks h e e t             c   a   k   ewith               ...

Corners

Corners

It might have been the cold or the urge to be alone.I couldn’t take it any longer.I hunkered down in the corner of the...

afloat

afloat

Water is Life  We all begin, cradled in the water. The storm of our mother’s womb, we, torrential in our desire to be known...

Soulmates

Soulmates

I.Walking in the park at 12 on a Sunday, watchingthe trees and people writhinghow could they have risenso early? I nearly...

Visual Arts

Masthead

EDITORIAL ESSAY

Cheng-Chai Chiang
Norrell Edwards
Holly Genovese
Lillian Sellati
Julia Sizek
Thomas J. Sojka
Maggie Wander
Sam Warren
Britt Young

 

EDITORIAL FICTION

Sam Bowers
Claire Dee
Rebecca Flores
Carly Lewis
Iremis Lorenzo
Jacqueline Ruvalcaba
Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría
Rylie Walsh

EDITORIAL CREATIVE FICTION

Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
Lianna Harrington
Ben Rawlins
Alina I. Scott

EDITORIAL POETRY

nanya jhingran
Ben Rawlins
Emma K. Shibley

COPYEDITING

 

Sam Bowers
Rebecca Chhay
Cheng-Chai Chiang
Stefanie Doucette
Norrell Edwards
Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
Alizeh Kohari
Rebecca Lipperini
Maura Pellettieri
Quinn Roberts

Jacqueline Ruvalcaba
Alec Sandoval
Emma K. Shibley
Julia Sizek
Thomas J. Sojka
Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría
Maggie Wander
Sam Warren
Britt Young

ART DIRECTION

Jazmin Benton
Rebecca Chhay
Norrell Edwards
Holly Genovese
nanya jhingran
Maura Pellettieri

PRODUCTION

 

Jazmin Benton
Sam Bowers
Claire Dee
Rebecca Flores
Carly Lewis
Rebecca Lipperini
Maura Pellettieri
Ben Rawlins
Jacqueline Ruvalcaba
Alec Sandoval
Alina I. Scott
Lillian Sellati
Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría
Rylie Walsh
Sam Warren

SOCIAL MEDIA

Claire Dee
Stefanie Doucette
Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
Lianna Harrington
Alizeh Kohari
Carly Lewis
Iremis Lorenzo
Alec Sandoval
Thomas J. Sojka

ADVISORS

BORIS DRALYUK, EDITORIAL ADVISOR

KATELYN KEATING, EDITORIAL AND WEB ADVISOR

LAUREN KINNEY, SOCIAL MEDIA ADVISOR

PUBLAB ISSUE 4.0 IS A PRODUCTION OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP