Online Features 

Cover Artist: Elizabeth Tracy

Elizabeth Tracy is a full-time practicing artist living in Santa Monica, California.  "Constructing Paradise" is a large series of works which explores the inter-play between a visual collage of rendered garden forms and the graphic rendering of more conceptual garden plans. Gardens from all over the world have inspired these paintings.

She received her BA from UCSC and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She was a lecturer at UCSC, an artist-in-residence for five years at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, and a professor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Her work may be found in such museums as The Hammer Museum in LA, San Jose Museum of Art and corporate collections such as Pepsico and GE in New York, McKinsey in New Jersey and Cigna in Connecticut.

Interview: Elizabeth McKenzie

To preview Catherine Segurson’s interview with Elizabeth Mckenzie click on the title below:

Elizabeth McKenzie Interview

Elizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Dog of the North (Penguin Press, 2023) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in fiction. Her novel The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press, 2016) was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and received the California Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Tin House, and others. McKenzie is the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.

Fiction: Bette Lynch Husted

Gracie

Bette Lynch Husted’s previous work includes the novel All Coyote’s Children (Oregon State University Press, 2018); a poetry collection, At This Distance (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010); and two collections of personal essays—Lessons from the Borderlands (Plain View Press, 2012) and Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land (Oregon State University Press, 2004), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Nonfiction: Sage Marshall

Powder Daze

Sage Marshall is an essayist, poet, and journalist. His creative essays have been published in journals such as The Missouri Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. His work was named notable in The Best American Essays 2021. He’s a contributing writer and former editor for Field & Stream. His nonfiction manuscript “The Barbs” delves into the intersections of ice hockey, the outdoors, the American West, boyhood, violence, and masculinity

Poetry: Frank Paino

Spring Peeper Gospel

Frank Paino’s fourth full-length collection, Dark Octaves, won the Longleaf Book Prize and will be published next winter.

Translation:

Mauricio Montiel Figueiras
translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine

The Woman of M

Mauricio Montiel Figueiras (Mexico, 1968–) is a writer of prose fiction and essays, as well as a poet, translator, editor, and film and literary critic. He is the author of fifteen books in different genres. His work has been published in magazines and newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been a resident writer for the Cheltenham Literature Festival in England (2003) and the Bellagio Center in Italy (2008). In 2012 he was appointed a resident writer for the prestigious Hawthornden Literary Retreat in Scotland. In 2020 he was selected as an artist in residence for the Saari Residence in Finland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico City.

Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Suzanne Jill Levine has written scholarly books that include The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (Graywolf Press, 1991; reissued by Dalkey Archive, 2009) and Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000). She has won many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and PEN America Literary Award, and translated over forty volumes of Latin American literature. She is the editor and cotranslator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’s poetry and nonfiction for Penguin paperback classics and her translation of Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (Seven Stories Press, 2020) was finalist for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. Her latest translation is Marjorie Agosin’s Notes from the Sea: A Diary (White Pine Press, 2024)

Issue 44 Spring 2024

Cover & Table of Contents