SPRING 2019
FICTION
Sindya Bhanoo, His Holiness
Molly Edmonds, Last Meal
Sydney S. Kim, α-Crystallin
Darryl Peers, Late Shift
CONTEST WINNERS
POETRY, selected by the Editors
Ellen Seusy, The Spiral Jetty
FICTION, selected by Colin Barrett
Cady Vishniac, Bumper Crop
CREATIVE NONFICTION, selected by Ryan Van Meter
Julialicia Case, The Stories I Do Not Know For Sure
POETRY
John Amen, Legacy
C. Fausto Cabrera #214176, Yes We Could
Andrew Collard, Pax Americana
Derek Gromadzki, Rhumb Lines
Elizabeth Hazen, The Bereaved
Rob Jacques, Dane Street Beach
R. Wood Lynn, Psalm for the Haters in the Back
Angie Macri, Spiral
S.A. McDonald, My Heart is Like a Dog
Willy Palomo, Mamoncillo
Carrie Shipers, The angry widows
David Swerdlow, Weight and Demeanor
Adam Tavel, The Crisfield Winter Consumptives of 1908; Phil Spector Points a Loaded Pistol
Lindsey Warren, Lauds
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Dorothy Bendel, Murmuration
Kendra Clark, Se Qing and the Naked Truth
Gary Fincke, Sparklers
Steven Harvey, One Boy’s Luminous Skin
Julie Marie Wade, The Suit
INTERVIEWS
On “Meting Out Intimacy”: A Conversation with Lucas Mann
Melissa Cundieff’s portraits of people who do not exist each begin with a line that becomes a shape that eventually becomes a human. She likes best to draw smokers, lonely people, people with questions that cannot be answered, those who make terrible mistakes, people who do not love themselves and will not survive within their own stories. She draws with India ink and a ball point pen, and she likes to create accompaniments for poems and fictions.
Melissa Cundieff is the author of Darling Nova, selected by Alberto Ríos for the Autumn House Press full-length poetry prize. She draws when writing is too challenging. She holds an MFA from Vanderbilt, teaches at the University of Minnesota, and lives in Saint Paul with her two children.