Editor-in-Chief
Winniebell Xinyu Zong

Associate Editor
Monica Kopenhaver

Poetry Editor
Spencer R. Young

Fiction Editor
Alyssa Freeman-Moser

Nonfiction Editors
Mary Cook, Tolu Daniel

Art Editor
Mawi Sonna

Associate Fiction Editor
Molly James

Readers
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Fiction: Jessica Moore, Jillian Dunlay

Graphic Design Intern & Art Reader
Shae Murphy

Social Media Manager
Mary Cook

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EDITOR’S PICK
Gabrielle Oliver
ten translations of “Bambo Balanta”

READERS’ PICK
Julia Haney
theory of yellow

Liam Al-Hindi
One Playbook

Maria Bolaños
Now Before Names

C. Diaz
Throwing Rocks

Chelsea Jackson
After the Raven

Jeddie Sophronius
Visitor

EDITOR’S PICK
Yvanna Vien Tica
Nanay’s ​Advice on Becoming a Woman

Sean Cho A.
Happy Poems Don’t Exist #1
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Ally Ang
Soft Boiled Egg

Prince Bush
March
Player versus Player

Elisheva Fox
negative.

Jessica Mehta
The Temporary Nature of Being

Adam Shea Lancaster
Andromeda

Adam Shea Lancaster
Penelope

Jack Bordnick
Facing It Together Series

K. Johnson Bowles
Circuitous Path

EDITORS’ PICK
Prophet Dauda
The Stool, the Fetish and I

Booi Carlyn
Toilet Paper

Zachery Morris
Halfway House

READERS’ PICK
Laura Maffei
The Bracelet

John Onah Otroyin
Servant of Death

EDITORS’ PICK
Yuko Taniguchi
Running Through

Abha Sharma
KITAAB

Anna Oberg
The Shape of the World

EDITORS’ PICK
Sandra Sanchez
All the Answers I Don't Have

Sebastián Ponce
Walrus-man

Melissa Wang
When The Universe Enfolds (quadriptypch)

Lawrence Bridges
She Wears Diamonds on Her Shoes

Melissa Wang
When The Universe Enfolds (quadriptypch)

FIRST PLACE FICTION
Sarah L Troub
Empty Nest

FIRST PLACE POETRY
Jillian Dunlay
A Thing Lost

FIRST PLACE NONFICTION
N. Norwood
How to Prepare...

SECOND PLACE FICTION
Mary Winzer
Imposter Syndrome

SECOND PLACE POETRY
Aubrey Painter
Snow Sunsets

SECOND PLACE NONFICTION
Ellie Pirog
Upper Body Workout for Beginners