Read Issue 4

Release Date: 1/1/2026

Masthead:

  • Emma Christensen – Editor-In-Chief, Marketing & Design Manager
  • Kendall Wack – Editor-In-Chief, Managing Editor
  • Gretel Valdes – Lead Marketing Editor
  • Rachel Makinson – Lead Marketing Editor
  • F.M. Papaz – Lead Editor
  • Carly Jo Helm – Assistant Marketing Editor
  • Jess Krahn – Assistant Marketing Editor
  • Kaila Gallacher – Assistant Marketing Editor
  • Kaci MoDavis – Assistant Managing & Marketing Editor
  • Andi Myles – Assistant Managing Editor
  • Paige Cerulli – Assistant Managing Editor
  • Allie Piette – Assistant Managing Editor

Full List of Contributors and Pieces, Alphabetically:

  • A V Anjali Menon – “How to Eat Like You Belong”
  • Aaron Lelito – “I’m meeting the edge”, “Flare”
  • Angela Acosta – “Family Joke”
  • Angela Townsend – “Eight Hundred Exquisite Square Feet”
  • Barbara Krasner – “The Melody of Anticipation”
  • Betty Stanton – “On Narcissus”
  • D A Angelo – “No Green Fingers”
  • Disha Dahiya – “We, the Debris You Can’t Classify”, “Gaza, Where the
  • Sky Is an Eyelid That Refuses to Shut”
  • E. Doyle-Gillespie – “A Cypress Tree Remembers”
  • Eve Müller – “Tender”
  • Ivy Alvarez – “bait berry”
  • Jennifer Schaefer – “Statue Maker”
  • Jillian Stacia – “”DOES MENTAL ILLNESS RUN IN YOUR FAMILY?””, “THE WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM, 10 AM ON THURSDAY, AFTER WATER AEROBICS”
  • Jordan Nishkian – “Into the Void”
  • Karen Cline-Tardiff – “An Idyllic Life”
  • Keri Withington – “Together”
  • Killian MacDonald – “Let the Sun Set”
  • Laurie Koensgen – “Creed”
  • Leonie Rowland – “The instrument”
  • Lori Crispo – “Hat, ID, Companion, Pearls”
  • Matt Escott – “Interchange”
  • Maya Maria – “Wasting”, “Legacy”
  • Megan Cartwright – “Illaroo Road”
  • Melanie Hess – “Mercy”
  • N.W. Hicks – “A Stranger You Used to Know”
  • Rachel Beachy – “Looking for Signs”, “Latticework”
  • Sarah Gamard – “Thoughts from the airport terminal”, “Parakeets”
  • Thomas J. Tice – “First Confessions”
  • V. Bray – “Passing It On”
  • Vinita Agrawal – “To Orchid (as in Verb)”

Nominated Pieces:

Poetry
  • “To Orchid as in Verb” – Vinita Agrawal
  • “DOES MENTAL ILLNESS RUN IN YOUR FAMILY?” – Jillian Stacia
  • “Thoughts from the Airport Terminal” – Sarah Gamard
Prose
  • “bait berry” – Ivy Alvarez
  • “Gaza, Where the Sky is an Eyelid That Refuses to Shut” – Disha Dahiya
  • “How to Eat Like You Belong” – A V Anjali Menon