Online Features 

Cover Artist: Ellen Wiener

Ellen Wiener is a visual artist whose prints, paintings, andgenerally bookish work revolve around themes concerninglandscape, reading, myth, and the natural sciences. She is aMacDowell fellow and her work has been reviewed inTheBrooklyn Rail,The New York Times,The Philadelphia Inquirer,Artforum,Art in America, andThe Washington Post. Her workis in the public collections of Cooper Hewitt, SmithsonianDesign Museum; the Berlin State Library; Yale University;the Parrish Art Museum; the Hood Museum of Art; and theBuffalo AKG Art Museum

Preview a selection of content from each genre of our Issue 48 - Summer 2025 . To read the work online, click on the title of the piece in the listing below.

Interview: Kira Jane Buxton

Tartufo

Kira Jane Buxton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and many more journals. Her debut novel, Hollow Kingdom (Grand Central Publishing, 2019), was an Indie Next pick, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Good Housekeeping, NPR, and Book Riot. Tartufo was published in January 2025 by Grand Central Publishing

Fiction: James Harmes

Buffalo

James Harms is the author of ten books, including, most recently, Rowing with Wings (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017), a collection of poems. Newer work appears in The Gettysburg Review, SALT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Missouri Review, among other journals. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, as well as three Pushcart Prizes. Originally from Altadena, he now divides his time between California and West Virginia.

Nonfiction: Don Lago

Obsidian: Digging Deep into the semi-precious gem

Don Lago is the author of Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon (University of Nevada Press, 2025). He lives in a cabin in the forest in Flagstaff, Arizona

Poetry: Mathieu Cailer

The Boy in the bottle

Mathieu Cailler is the author of seven books: a novel, two short story collections, two volumes of poetry, and two children’s titles. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in over one hundred publications, including Wigleaf, The Saturday Evening Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has received many prestigious awards, including a Pushcart Prize; a Readers’ Favorite Award; and accolades from the Paris, Los Angeles, and New England Book Festivals.

Translation: Giacomo Sartori
translated from the Italian by Michela Martini and Elizabeth Mckenzie

My City

Giacomo Sartori lives and works between France and Italy. He has published seven novels and four collections of short stories as well as a collection of poetry. He won the Frontiere Grenzen Award and was finalist for the Settembrini Prize, and his novel Baco (Bug [Restless Books, 2021]) was a finalist for the 2020 Procida-Isola di Arturo-Elsa Morante Award and for the Francesco Gelmi di Caporiacco Award. The English translation of Sono Dio, I Am God (Restless Books, 2019), was named a Best Book of 2019 by the Financial Times and won the 2019 Foreword INDIE Gold Award for Literary Fiction. He’s an editor of the online literary collective Nazione Indiana.

Michela Martini’s translations include works by Italian poets and novelists such as Edoardo Sanguineti, Giorgio Caproni, Gabriella Leto, Patrizia Valduga, Rossana Campo, Emanuele Trevi, and Giacomo Sartori, appearing in numerous journals and volumes, including Literary Review, Poetry International, Gradiva, Chicago Quarterly Review, Journal of Italian Translation, Italian Poetry Review, and The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry.

Elizabeth McKenzie has collaborated with Michela Martini on translations of the work of Rossana Campo, Emanuele Trevi, Giacomo Papi, Tommaso Avati, and Giacomo Sartori. She is the author of three novels and a linked story collection. Martini and McKenzie received a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Project Fellowship in 2023 for work on Sartori’s novel Anatomy of the Battle, forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

Issue 48-Summer, 2025

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