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Cover Artist: Mayme Kratz

Mayme Kratz

Mayme Kratz’s mixed-media assemblages feature plant and organic materials that she disassembles and rearranges into kaleidoscopic patterns on panel before encasing them in colorful resins. The compositions often come to Kratz in dreams or in those suspended moments between states of consciousness right before sleep. Combined with a smooth, matte finish achieved by hand-sanding, these mesmerizing arrangements recast the natural world in poetic and inspired terms.

Watvh a video of Mayme in her studio here: Mayme Kratz

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Preview a selection of content from each genre of our Issue 52 - Fall 2026 . To read the work online, click on the title of the piece in the listing below.

Interview: Aaron Tyler Hand

The Rot that comes for everything

Aaron Hand’s debut poetry collection, the 2025 Catamaran Prize for West Coast Poets–winning Floodchaser, features vacillating sections that trade off between exploring the speaker’s familial history and an elaborately constructed, intimate reimagining of the story of Noah’s ark. Even beyond this epistolary retelling, Hand’s debut is preternaturally interested in exploring a vast array of forms and styles, including duplexes, elegies, and even poems written in the form of a direct message transcription.

Fiction: David Rea

The whale’s concerto

David Rea is a novelist and short story writer who has been long-listed for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is also a journalist with a particular interest in the intersection of music, culture, and history and is the founder and editor of the online music magazine State of Sound.

Nonfiction: Asya Graf

Seaweeding

Asya Graf’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alocasia, Epiphany, and The Dodge, among other journals. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology and her work has been supported by Monson Arts, Hewnoaks, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Lambda Literary. She is currently working on a book about kelp forests, ecogrief, and place-attachment to the ocean. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her wife.

Poetry: Joan Baranow

Cleaning the closet

Joan Baranow is the winner of the 2026 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. She is the author of seven poetry books, including Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, winner of the 2021 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Posit, JAMA, and elsewhere.

Translation: Simone Regina Adams

gary cooper on the north sea dikes

Simone Regina Adams is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of a novella and three novels, including Die Halbruhigen (The Half-Restless), which was awarded the Werner Brunig Literary Prize honoring a notable work of contemporary prose and emerging literary talent. Adams lives in Freiburg, Germany, and works as a psychotherapist.

Zack Rogow received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award for Earthlight by Andr. Breton (Black Widow Press, 2015) and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (BABRA) for George Sand’s Horace (Mercury House, 1995). His other translations include Colette’s Green Wheat (Sarabande Books, 2004) and Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island (State University of New York Press, 2014).