2024 | issue 7.0
Table of Contents
Rooted
Joy Reyes, 2022
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
Skin
The sun hangs low in the sky like an overripe orange. You wish for a moment that you could reach up and pluck it, sink your...
Learning to Drink Black Coffee in Arkansas
I grew up in a house near the Randal Tyson Recreational Complex in Springdale, Arkansas. For sixth and seventh grade, I...
The Bus Years (2003-2006)
The days along the bus route blur together, traveling to and from her trailer home, kindergarten, first grade, second...
The Ceaseless Song
I made music before I could speak. I drummed and hummed along with tunes it seemed only I could hear. When I could stand, I...
In Her Head
They met six months ago, in a low-lit bar downtown frequented by corporate twentysomethings. Virginia saw him approaching...
Neighbors
My neighbor in Idaho was an eyeful. I watched her when I was feeling bored, hungry, or restless. I got to feeling like I...
Prelude to a Scripture
Here is a list of things I know about the author.Either he was very old or he had a proclivity for the...
Essays
Challenging the Peripheral: Reading Assam in Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song
Growing up in the capital city of Guwahati, Assam, life was marked by recurring floods and occasional violence,...
Can Everyone Travel? What it Means to Travel the World as an African
I was just a tourist, and a black one at that.—Ọlábísí Àjàlá, An African Abroad (1963)In a picture from the 1960s, Ọlábísí...
An Eye on AI
What makes AI images a strange invention is their innate inscrutability. What we see in these pictures cannot be said to...
Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal
All India is full of neglected graves that date from the beginning of the eighteenth century—tombs of forgotten colonels of...
Countercultural Chronotopes of Thomas Pynchon
The 1950s in the United States, marked by the post-World War II economic boom, were characterized by pressures to conform,...
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Revis[it]ing the Slave Narrative: The Past and Future of Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking 1979 novel Kindred follows the main character Dana, a contemporary Black writer in Los...
Elizabeth Stoddard’s Unruly Girlhood
Weird girls are having a literary moment. A search for “weird girl books” on TikTok confirms this, yielding hundreds of...
Poetry
Fragment 52: I do not expect to touch the sky
i do not expect to touch the sky—SapphoIAphrodite,my once-was friend.your gift seems no blessing.you pull bodies...
Untitled, Still
for 奶奶, in the land of steady hands Upstroke, downbeat, the waves fathomtowards the shallow surface of spring— ...
Decompose
"Witches' Butter" (2022), Yazlin Juarez. Courtesy of the author.Yazlin Juarez is a writer and artist from Pico Rivera with...
Theory of Care
“yellow textile on brown wooden table” (2020), Noah Morgan. Courtesy of Unsplash. Magnolia trees that open their...
Portrait of My Mother, Circa 2001
Lost in the leaves’ swing, I am trying to shake off their green, buttermilk yellow.The refrigerator hums and drums like a...
Visual Arts
Anel I. Flores Portfolio
This collection of paintings by San Antonio–based artist Anel I. Flores (they/she) intimately captures a lesbian subject’s...
Joy Reyes Portfolio
Memories become larger than life in Joy Reyes’s mixed-media collection, embodying familial strength and love passed down...
Masthead
EDITORIAL
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Anne Gerard Livingston Asusena Lopez Bethany Johnsen Chiara Bercu Christina Wood Elizabeth Johnson Brown Emma Greene Evelyn Vasquez |
Jose Galindo Benitez Justin Greene Kavior Moon Kiana Perez Granados Kristen York Radhika Sharma Richard Boyechko Shaneka Jones Cook |
COPYEDITING
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Anne Gerard Livingston Asusena Lopez Chiara Bercu Destiny Pinder-Buckley |
Emma Greene Kendall Dinniene Loran Schneiter Rosie Ward Tina Borah |
ART DIRECTION
Andrew Pimentel
Elena Bellaart
Gloria Hernandez
Meagan Solomon
Paulo Lorca
William Stone
Yazlin Juarez
PRODUCTION
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Andrew Pimentel Anne Gerard Livingston Asusena Lopez Chiara Bercu Destiny Pinder-Buckley Elena Bellaart Elizabeth Johnson Brown Emma Greene |
Jose Galindo Benitez Justin Greene Kavior Moon Kendall Dinniene Kiana Perez Granados Loran Schneiter Paulo Lorca Richard Boyechko |
SOCIAL MEDIA
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Asusena Lopez Bethany Johnsen Christina Wood Evelyn Vasquez Gloria Hernandez Kristen York |
Rosie Ward Shaneka Jones Cook Tina Borah William Stone Yazlin Juarez |
ADVISORS
JONATHAN HAHN, FACULTY ADVISOR, EDITORIAL
LIVIA AZEVEDO LIMA, ART DIRECTOR ADVISOR
FRANCIS RUIZ, PUBLAB COORDINATOR AND PRODUCTION ADVISOR
AJ URQUIDI, COPYDESK ADVISOR
ISABEL YI JIMENEZ, AJ URQUIDI, COPYDESK COORDINATOR
MAYA CHEN, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR
AUDREY SERRANO, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
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