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Cover Artist: Adam Jahiel

Adam Jahiel is an internationally recognized photographer who lives and works in the American West. Though he is mostly known for his photography of the American cowboy, his photography has taken him all over the world. His poetic and dynamic images have been exhibited and published worldwide. In 1996, he became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, in Cody, Wyoming. His photographs are in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as private and corporate collections. He lives in Story, Wyoming.

Interview: Brad Crenshaw

To preview Lilly Tookey’s interview with Brad Crenshaw click on the title below:

Lilly Tookey: A conversation With Brad Crenshaw

Brad Crenshaw is the author of three previous poetry collections: My Gargantuan Desire, Genealogies, and Memphis Shoals. His poetry has appeared in a wide range of journals including Catamaran, Shenandoah, Chicago Review, Massachusetts Review, and The Common, and has been anthologized in Bear Flag Republic, The Hard Work of Hope, and California Fire and Water. As a literary critic, he has published multiple articles on contemporary poets. He worked for many years as a neuropsychologist at Baystate Medical Center, and at the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Fiction: Olivia Murphy-Major

Any Day Now

Olivia Murphy-Major is a writer and student based in Montreal, Canada. She attends Concordia University, where she is completing her undergraduate degree in honors English literature and creative writing. She will soon have a nonfiction essay published in a Montreal-based literary journal called yolk.

Nonfiction: Laura Kraftowitz

Stranded in Gaza City

Laura Kraftowitz’s appears in The Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. She is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace and a founding co-director of City of Asylum/Detroit.

Poetry: Kuhu Joshi

Saraswati Considers the Mother line

Kuhu Joshi is an Indian poet and educator based in New York City. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Best New Poets, Four Way Review, Rattle, Memorious, Black Fork Review, SWWIM, Sweet Literary, Yearbook of Indian Poetry, and other journals. She received her MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was a Jane Cooper Poetry Fellow. Her work has received support from the Academy of American Poets, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Teaching Artist Project, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the author of My Body Didn’t Come Before Me (Speaking Tiger, 2023), a collection of poems exploring deformity/disability and girlhood. Her second poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series.

Translation:

Mauricio Montiel Figueiras
translated from the Spanish by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

Pages from a diary found amid the dust inhabiting the only bar of a ghost town

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.

Issue 45 Summer 2024

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