Table of Contents

Special Features

• Overarching Genre: An Interview with Stuar Dybek on Writing Fiction and Poetry (Interviewed by Ryan Effgen)

Fiction

• Taylor Antrim, “Deep Space” (Winter Contest Winner)
• Interview with Taylor Antrim
• Julie Hensley, “Olivia, the Rock”
• Jane Sandor, “Alamogordo”
• Kate Peterson, “Eighteen Conjugations of Cambridge”

Poetry

• Noah Eli Gordon, “A Dictionary of Music” (Greg Grummer Contest Winner), “Yesterday I Named a Dead Bird Rebecca,” “A Black Mirror for the Capital,” “Pointillism Makes of Me an Outdoor Poem”
• Interview with Noah Eli Gordon
• Erika Howsare, “Known”
• Eleanor Graves, “Cricket”
• Charlotte Boulay, “Monsoon”
• Bliss Morehead, “Incident with the Scarf”
• Danielle Deulen, “Bough/Orchard/Dusk/Road”
• Julianne Buchsbaum, “Still Life with Rooms People Live In”
• Christina Mengert, “Apology”
• Nicholas Strickland, “Eye-Bats”
• Jennifer Chapis, “Composition Faculty Falling in Love”
• Christian Teresi, “You Will Never Be My Girlfriend”
• Adam Chiles, “January,” “Deck Hand,”
• Ryan G. Van Cleave, “Explaining It All,” “The Mural of J. Robert Oppenheimer”
• Rebecca Aronson, “Fourteen Little Apologies”
• Allegra Morton, “Resumption”
• J.D. Scrimgeour, “Absence”
• Sam Taylor, “Postscript”
• Barry Ballard, “A Mind of Fire and Fieldstone”
• G.T. Gordon, “One White Night”
• Alycia Tessean, “Despondency: A Behaviorial Approach”
• Quinn Latimer, “The Machinist’s Daughter”
• J. Ely Shipley, “Inertia”
• Sheila Squillante, “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”
• Susanne Kort, “Rainy Season (Sundays) (Dining Room)”
• Mary Jane Ryals, “Music in Arabic”
• John Poch, “Split End”

Art

• Kirsty Vander Voort, “Cotton (from Elegance Fleurie),” “The Bottle (from Elegance Fleurie)”
• Claudine Hellmuth, “Chicken Me” (front cover art), “And Man’s Best Friend” (back cover art), “Chicken Mom,” “Date Night,” “Leaving Home,” “Then She Flies Away”
• Matthew Ross Thomas, “WTO Seattle,” “Gap for Kids”