ISSUE 10.1 welcomeissue contentscontributorsinterviewsfeatured artour editors Annie Cigic“People always talk about the dimensions of grief or the timeline of grief, but I personally believe everyone experiences grief differently. You cannot put a number or time limit on it.“ Ginny Connors“I read widely as a kid and I still do. It’s a way of trying to see the world through the eyes of others.“ Joe Davies“I know different writers have different ways of going about fashioning story content, but I almost always write beginning to end—usually as an act of discovery.” Jessy Easton“I write toward the pain, the anguish, all the things that put my heart in my throat.” Ashish Isaac“I’ve always believed that the power of art lies precisely in revealing the complexities lying latent within such deceivingly simple positions.” Jayant Kashyap“I’m some sort of an atheist with very many scientific questions but the irony is also that I’m from a culture where gods are GODS!” Michael Lauchlan“I was struck by moments when we are almost blown by the wind or by unacknowledged currents within the self.” Olivia Lehman“When I see something…that connects me to the past, I often feel drawn back to that moment. I follow the tether back and time collapses.“ Renee Lepreau“The older I get, the more I lean on a sense of humor to survive the pathos of life.” Mary Carroll Moore“In many traditions, water is the womb, a place of birth and change, the unconscious and the place of possibility. For scuba divers, water is where the best and worst imaginable can happen.” John A. Nieves“I see nostalgia as an important pain: a particular resonant goneness that helps define who we are.” Derek Otsuji“In a poem, an image must be a living image, not a specimen pinned and labeled in an exhibition case. It must move and have its being in the little biome that the poem creates.” Megan Reilley“The beauty of dreams is that anything can happen. Not even the sky has a limit.“ Matthew Rohrer“…the things I’m interested in capturing in writing are the moments of wonder that exist right there, just underneath the everyday..” Rikki Santer“…I find myself lingering on memories of my upbringing with two loving parents who taught me the traditions of my heritage.“ Beaumont Sugar“I have voices that wail and snap and snarl. Writing allows those voices to speak their piece, and when they do, I become more fully realized.” Katelyn Tucker“I think our deepest emotions and our strongest memories have this kind of connective tissue with the senses.“ Sage Tyrtle“The first hard lesson I had to learn was that I no longer had my own inflections or pauses to tell the story as an addition to the actual words.” Ralph Uttaro“I enjoy speculating about the people I meet, those I pass on the street or ride with on the subway, especially those with lives so different from my own.” Randall Van Nostrand“For me there’s nothing more satisfying than being truly seen and heard by someone you love.” Boen Wang“…I guess everything feels overdramatic when you’re twenty-one.” Rose Maria Woodson“We live in dark times. It’s always good to have something bigger, brighter than yourself to look up to.” Ellen Zhang“Slowly and surely, I am cultivating a more nuanced lens of what the ‘American Dream’ entails.”
