
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:
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- 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:
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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

