ISSUE 13.1 FALL 2025 welcome issue contents > fiction > nonfiction > poetry > art contributors interviews our editors Dariana Alvarez Herrera“The idea of a resurrection is truly symbolic for a longing for change that likely doesn’t happen.” Alexandra Bergmann“I want to apply pressure to language until it breaks—then magnify the pieces.” Ray Carey“There has to be contrast in any artistic work. A positive tension.” Laurel Digangi“I always tell writing students not to title a work until it’s finished, because you don’t know what you’re writing until it’s written.” Julianne DiNenna“Mythology explained the inexplicable, as today’s poetry seeks to express the inexpressible.” Maggie Felisberto“I think there’s something really resonant about the way that games of luck mimic the physical actions of fortune telling.” Andreas Fleps“You don’t want to write like somebody else—they are busy playing a different song.” John Ganshaw“Death doesn’t always mean the end of life. It can also mean the end of certain relationships, aspects of life; to some, it means hopes and dreams die.” Mary Herrington-Perry“What used to be proof of a loved one’s habitual presence is now an unavoidable reminder of their absence.” Caroline Huckeba“Like, if I was already struggling to eat, why on earth would you hand me a stale microwavable quesadilla and then have someone watch me eat it?” Amanda Izzo“If you walk into a room and ask everyone if they know a victim of sexual assault, most hands would be raised.” Skye Ayla Mallac“In the last weeks of my grandad’s life it felt like he was slipping between worlds: ours and the one beyond.” Katherine May“There’s always more truth to be revealed outside of your own comfort zone.” Savannah S. Miller“My theatre experience empowers me to create characters that are well- rounded and understandable, even if they are not necessarily sympathetic.” Sreeja Naskar“That, to me, is the quiet power of language: the way it shifts something deep within without even screaming.” Jennifer Riggan“My hope is that writing fiction might allow me to reach an audience who might not have any interest in reading an academic article or books.” Marlo Scheitler“Ending with the narrator’s response gives the narrator agency instead of passive acceptance…” Ashwini Shenoy“Death defines the boundaries of our existence, and within those boundaries, everything gains meaning.” Kirby Michael Wright“And if you never explored your interior world through art, writing, you don’t leave anything behind. What is left behind?” Kenton K Yee“I wanted to use the abalone’s point of view to convey the victim’s experience—the human experience.”
