Work Featured
Fiction
Bell, Casey – “Luminous through the Mist”
Gulis, Alex – “Falling in Parts” [Issue 154 Contest Winner]
Gupta, Tvisha – “Jerk” [Issue 154 Contest Winner]
Johnson, Daniel – “Hagiography”
Stim, Richard – “Closer to Heaven” [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
Swigart, Saramanda – “Escape Artist”
Nonfiction
Collins, Eileen – “Two Tablespoons of Tim” [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
Krug, Louise – “That’s What We Said”
Meservey, Helen – “Built to Last: A Reflection on the Enduring Legacy of California’s own Grateful Dead”
Milla, Miah Jeffra – “Trying to Shove Ourselves Back Together (after Hedwig and the Angry Inch)”
Moriarty, Colin – “Cynical Beast”
Romanska, Magda – “Runt of the Litter: Disability in the Age of Pandemic”
Poetry
Allegretti, Joel – “The Burning of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict by Protestant Laborers, Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 11 & 12, 1834”
Bade, Scott – “Preemptive Elegy for a Job and my Dad” [Issue 154 Contest Winner]
Baranda, María, trans. Forrest Gander – “Dylan and the Whales: 1”
Baranda, María – “Dylan y las ballenas: 8”
Gunsberg, Ben – “Dark Impactor”
Julian, Jeanne – “Intimacy at the Blue Moon Café” [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
McGee, Mighty Mike – “On the Eve of All Those Saints”
Newman, KG – “The Vibrations of Wind and Wings”
O’Brien, Charlotte – “In Which you Dream of Yourself as Other”
Rockman, Barbara – “The Mangle”
Rockwood-Ghanem, Cassandra – “The Last Time I Walked With the Flame Thrower”
Solorzano, Emmanuel – “Advice for Bilingual Poets”
Starkey, David – “The Sinking of the MV Sewol”
Thomas, Lee – “Notice: 6pm Yoga on the Roof Tonight”
Toscano, Rodrigo – “Gaps” [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
Vives, Viviane – “I Don’t Like Telling You What I Ate”
Wagner, Anna – “Cribbed and Counting”
Wu, Tiarra – “The Language of Love” [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
ART
Ballantyne, Andrew – Monterey Skiffs
Bortsova, Kateryna – Vulgarity
Brown, William A. – Skeleton Display #1732
Carpenter, Amber – You Give Me Butterflies
Conley, Willy – Bulevar, Dorado, Puerto Rico
Dunnett, Jack – The Scholar and the Dragon
Givot, Stuart – San Carlos Depot
Heimgartner, Matty – Bella Nature
Horner, Chris – Discovering Traces
James, Q’shaundra [portfolio] – [Issue 154 Contest Winner]
Kotler, Anya [portfolio] – [Issue 153 Contest Winner]
McNeal, Meridith – Inside Outside Freebird Books (Red Hook, Brooklyn)
Thompson, Michael – Hell Hath No Fury Like…
Profiles and FEatures
Adry, Talia – “T.C. Boyle: On Satire, Mortality, and Why We Make Art”
Berger, Lane – “Mighty Mike McGee: My City is Finding its Voice”
Dalton, Sarah and interviewees – “Gilroy Strong: A Community Speaks”
Dayton, Lily – “When the Walls Speak, José Ortiz Listens”
Harrison, Kelly A. – "The Glamorous Writing Life: A Tribute to Cathleen Miller, Reed Magazine Editor-in-Chief Emerita"