The 2020s
SHR ARCHIVES    Vol 53.1 to Present

              53.1
              SPRING 2020

53.2
SUMMER 2020

53.3
FALL 2020

53.4
WINTER 2020

              54.1
              SPRING 2021

54.2
SUMMER 2021

54.3
FALL 2021

54.4
WINTER 2021

55.1
SPRING 2022

55.2
SUMMER 2022

55.3&4
WINTER 2022

56.1
SPRING 2023

56.2
SUMMER 2023

56.3
FALL 2023

56.4
WINTER 2023

57.1
SPRING 2024

57.2
SUMMER 2024

57.3
FALL 2024

57.4
WINTER 2024

58.1
SPRING 2025

58.2
SUMMER 2025

58.3
FALL 2025

58.4
WINTER 2025
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Volume 53.1    SPRING 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
DIANE MEHTA      Invisible Woman
HEATHER CORRIGAN PHILLIPS      A Scattershot Approach

F I C T I O N
RAIMA EVAN       Woman in the Trees 
DEWAINE FARRIA      The Tap Cascade
TRUDY LEWIS       Villa Medusa 
DARA PASSANO       It Goes Well with the Rest  

P O E T R Y
CATHERINE CARTER      Lactobacilli
JULIE CHOFFEL      Eyelet
CATHERINE ESTHER COWIE      Assimilation   |  Trigger 
JANE CRAVEN        Incidental  |  An Etymology  
CALEB CURTISS       Duplex 
JANICE N. HARRINGTON       Turner Circling  |  Cuttings 
ANDREW HEMMERT       Sawgrass Sky 
CLAY MATTHEWS       Revelation in the Second Person 
ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS      Notes on the State of North Carolina
MOLLY TENENBAUM       Choosing Which Dessert to Eat at a Potluck 
LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA       Facts on the Ground 
JAIME ZUCKERMAN       Regret 

C O V E R   A R T
SUZANNE STRYK      Beyond Biology (Rabbit), Mixed Media. 2018.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.2     SUMMER 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
CHARLOTTE TAYLOR FRYAR      Blackwater *
A. MOLOTKOV      Wood on Snow

F I C T I O N
KIM BRADLEY       King of the Mountain
JUDITH DANCOFF      The Death of Ria Munk
JANIS HUBSCHMAN   Coyote
JEFF MCLAUGHLIN   Burning Away the Fog
ANN RUSSELL   A New Roof

P O E T R Y
JOSEPH BATHANTI      Liberty
JAMES CIANO      Rolling Rock
BRYCE LILLMARS        Dear Human
ESTHER LIN      Hidden One
DEREK MONG       U. A. V. 
CHRISTINA OLSON       Anxiety Lake
LEE PETERSON       Equinox: Elegy
L. RENÉE       Ghazal: Hog Killing Time
KRISTIN ROBERTSON      Lottery (She wants...)  |  Lottery (With my...)
MARA ADAMITZ SCRUPE       Stone-on-Stone
WESLEY SEXTON       Origin Story 
ANNIE WOODFORD      A Poem in Which I Grab My Poverty Like That Jaguar in the Video Grabbed a
                              Crocodile Out of the River and Carried It into the Jungle

C O V E R   A R T
STACEY KOLBIG      Paper Peeker No. 8, Paper (Rives BFK). 2020.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.3     FALL 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
ALLISON LaSORDA      The Pain You Want to Know *
ALEXANDRIA PEARY      Hello to All That *

F I C T I O N
MARLENE LEE      City of Tomorrow
DENNIS MCFADDEN      Another Little Legend
SEAN ROSE      Dancer
GREGORY WOLOS      Bed of Nails

P O E T R Y
ASHIA AJANI      Durag
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY      00:00:11
ARIANA BENSON      On Mars
NATE DUKE      Illinois River, Northern Arkansas  |  Texarkana Apocrypha
MATT DONOVAN      The Etymology of Gazebo
BETHANY SCHULTZ HURST      Exposure
RASAQ MALIK      Ode to Despair
LESLIE MCINTOSH      Moynihan Dreams of the Black Life's Lack
MARY MORRIS      Dear September
JULIA THACKER      God Awful
MARISA TIRADO      Selena Sonnets
ANNIE WOODFORD      Wilkes County Posada

C O V E R   A R T
KAT LEZNIK      Circus 12, 22, 34, 36, 47, 51. Pencil on Moleskin Paper. 2020.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021

Volume 53.4     WINTER 2020

N O N F I C T I O N
TAYLOR BRORBY      Levi
CERIDWEN HALL      Submarine Reconnaissance: Bodies, Permutations, Voyages *

F I C T I O N
NICOLE BAUTE      Only Human
TORREY CRIM      Mountain, Mother
GLORIA L. HUANG      The Hive
MEGAN KAKIMOTO      Madwomen

P O E T R Y
CELIA BLAND      Something Between Breaths
E. G. CUNNINGHAM      Dog Walks Through a Garden
R. M. KINDER      When I Die
DANIEL LASSELL      Sinkhole
RODNEY TERICH LEONDARD      XI
JENNIFER MAIER      Mirror
EMILIE MENZEL      We Step Outside and There's an Uneasiness
LUCAS DANIEL PETERS      How Else
DEREK SHEFFIELD      A Moment Ago
SIMON SHIEH      Day One
NATHAN SPOON      A Cup of Tea
BEATRICE SZYMKOWIAK     O Horizon

C O V E R   A R T
HEIDI HOGDEN      Watching / Waiting. Oil on Canvas. 2020.
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Volume 54.1     SPRING 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
JADE HIDLE      Thúy
EMILY WAPLES      Sick Time

F I C T I O N
REMY BARNES      The Eventual Return of All Lost Things
CHRISTINE MA-KELLAMS      La Llorna and Chang'e are Friends
RAQUEL OLIVE      Resurrection
KEIJA PARSSINEN      Don't Look  |  New Orleans

P O E T R Y
JOHN BLAIR      Eclogue 15: What We Owe This Life  |  The Comedy of This King
ASA DRAKE      Dreamscape Dressed in My Younger Self  |  American Crow Delivers a Message 
                                                                                               to My Younger Self
GILES GOODLAND      Rain  |  God is My Co-Pilot
AIDEN HEUNG      At a Deserted Neighborhood
PATRICK HOLIAN      The Archivist
AVERY K. JAMES      Here, I forget the sound of engines
DAVID KLOSE      Dividing by Zero
ROOJA MOHASSESSY      War  |  Believers


C O V E R   A R T
J. LEIGH GARCIA     January. Woodcut. 2013.
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Volume 54.2     SUMMER 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
MYRONN HARDY      The Puppet
IAN SPANGLER      Red Wine Vinegar

F I C T I O N
SER ÁLIDA      Love thy neighbor.
LESLIE BLANCO      A Sane Person Doesn't Do Something Like That
BENJAMIN MURRAY      Playgrounds
GLEN POURCIAU      Invade

P O E T R Y
HALA ALYAN      Fatima : : Solstice
ANNE BARNGROVER      Owls Come to Us
JORDAN ESCOBAR      Abuelo, Your Voice Remains Tangled in Hills I Cannot Climb  |  Banjo on  
                               Duchesne Ridge, UT
RHIENNA RENÉE GUEDRY      FKA Plaquemines
SJOHNNA MCCRAY      In America, We are Always Metaphors
IMMANUEL MIFSUD  translated by  RUTH WARD      Palestiniana
ANNA NEWMAN      Between light and the body
KIMBERLY RAMOS      cut in the earth
KAREN RIGBY      Portrait as Demilune Console with Marquetry
BRETT SHAW      Ode to In Between
travis tate      A POEM IN WHERE I'M DEAD & I TALK TO MY PORTRAIT IN A MUSEUM


C O V E R   A R T
AGNIYA TOLSTOKULAKOVA     Pink City. Digital. 2020.
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Volume 54.3     FALL 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
BARBARA LILES      My Father's Portraits
JJ PEÑA      he got lost humming & then went over his body

F I C T I O N
BARBARA BARROW      A Bitch for the Rest of His Life
ERIN COMERFORD      A Prayer for Frank Lane
JUDITH DANCOFF      The Beautiful Gaze
ERICA JASMIN DIXON      Marta's Baby
LEE ROZELLE      Baby Face

P O E T R Y
ELIZABETH AOKI      Slouching like a velvet rope
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN      In Which I Am a Sum of Parts
NOAH DAVIS      The Last Beast We Revel In
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN      Morality Police
MARLANDA DEKINE      Plantersville, South Carolina
ANDREW HEMMERT      Angels
MAURYA KERR      Dorothy Dandridge on White Men in Hollywood
CATE LYCURGUS      Eye Witness
ATHENA NASSAR      Ken'ya See Us Now
KHALISA RAE      Circus Acts: No More Black Girl Magic
DARIUS SIMPSON      I Left the Church in Search of God
ARIANA FRANCESCA THOMAS      Slingshots for Cowboy Astronauts


C O V E R   A R T
LAVETTE BALLARD     The Absence Of... Mixed media/collage on reclaimed wood fencing. Collection of Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Reproduced with permission of the artist.
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Volume 54.4     WINTER 2021

N O N F I C T I O N
PHILIP ARNOLD      Thresholds: The Space(s) Between
SARAH GORHAM      "Be Dark Night" by Phosphorescent

F I C T I O N
JEROME BLANCO      Here
MICHAEL COLBERT      The Ash Cabin
EVAN GRILLON      Real Horse, Real Story
ELIAMANI ISMAIL      Garfield, 2005
PARDEEP TOOR      Tony and Jim's

P O E T R Y
REBECCA CROSS      The Children Know all about Snow
CHIYUMA ELLIOTT      Water Under Bridges  |  Histories, Landscapes, Flowers, Etc.
GREG EMILIO      After the Last Supper
CLAIRE HERO      What We Saw from the Ruined House
SARAH NANCE      Collecting
CAROLINE HARPER NEW      How women smell blood
STEVEN PAN      Homeland
JENNY QI     The Shape of Salt
ROGER SEDARAT      Last Shots (or, The Revolution Will be Televised)
BENJAMIN VOIGT      Burnt Umber
D.S. WALDMAN      After Modernism

C O V E R   A R T
GEORGE J. TONKS     Humpback. Digital Vector Illustration, March 2021.
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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023

Volume 55.1     SPRING 2022

N O N F I C T I O N
MONICA JUDGE      Near the Hollows*
EVAN JOSEPH MASSEY      The Breath of God

F I C T I O N
SCOTT GLODEN      Scenario
KYLE FRANCIS WILLIAMS      Out East
CONNOR WHITE      Open House
PS ZHANG      Feast

P O E T R Y
LISA AMPLEMAN      Reasons for Lack of Success
CAITLIN COWAN      In the Dream
ESTEBAN ISMAEL      Kingdom Come (Grandma’s Reprise)
LH LIM      “Oh my! bomdongi!” 
LANCE LARSEN      Shopping with Sappho
FASASI ABDULROSHEED OLADIPUPO      How to Welcome the Night
EMILIA PHILLIPS      Magical Realism  |  Echo Eyes Herself
VASANTHA SAMBAMURTI      வசந்தா—SPRING
JACE RAYMOND SMELLIE      port of what we return to
JULIA THACKER      God Denies Any Knowledge of Dead Angel in His Bed
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS      Skyscrape

C O V E R   A R T
VERONICA STEINER      Cicada Summer. Watercolor on Paper, 2021.
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Volume 55.2     SUMMER 2022

N O N F I C T I O N
GEORGE ESTREICH      Plague Novel
KELLY ANN JACOBSON      Acclimated

F I C T I O N
ALENA GRAEDON      The Gift
LUCY ZHANG      Imprinting
TANYA ŽILINSKAS      The Singer
SANJENA SATHIAN      How I Talk to My Mother

P O E T R Y
ANGELICA MARIA BARRAZA      For You, Malinalli
CLAYTON ADAM CLARK      Suffusion
TODD DAVIS      Eclogue for an Extractive Economy
JESSICA DIONNE      Retired Racehorse, in Field
alyssa hanna      nine hundred thousand offshore
CONSTANCE HANSEN      Be Small
SARA HENNING      Cairns at School House Beach
MAURYA KERR      paterfamilias
DANIEL EDWARD MOORE      To Know Utterly What You'll Never Be
tano rubio     Abandoning the interstate,
MAUREEN SHERBONDY      Gray Elephants
GRACE Q. SONG      Laundry

C O V E R   A R T
MIMIPRINT      Computer Network. Watercolor.
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* Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023

Volume 55 No. 3 & 4
WINTER 2022

N O N F I C T I O N
KATE LISTER CAMPBELL      Body Work*
JUSTIN JANNISE                 A Flamboyance
GAGE SAYLOR                     I Wanna Talk to Pat
CAROLINE SUTTON              Ghost Plant
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F I C T I O N
RACHAEL FOWLER              The Lady I Don't Know
NEAL HAMMONS                 Life-Coaching Sessions with Marlon Brando
MAX HIPP                         Stump Girl
JOHN KIM                         The Child
TALIA LAKSHMI KOLLURI      Someone Must Watch Over the Dead
STEPHANIE MACIAS             This Is My Good Side
GREG TEBBANO                  Spiders and Their Kin

​P O E T R Y
JULIA C. ALTER      Rutland
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY       Addendum
JAI HAMID BASHIR       On Oysters
PIEDAD BONNETT translated by AJAY SAWANT       On the Edge
M. CYNTHIA CHEUNG       The Last Surgeon in Mariupol
JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH       Watching Masha i Medved as Russia Invades Ukraine
MARISSA DAVIS      In summer, a bird 
                            Second Parable for the Apocalypse We Built: The Forum
DANIEL DONAGHY       Tulsa Triptych
EMET EZELL       WHITE MAN RUNNING KICKS HIS DOG
ZOË FAY-STINDT       Tar River Taxidermy
ADAM J. GELLINGS       Old Age
BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG       Bud Break
JACOB GRIFFIN HALL       First I Should Acknowledge the Conditions
TENNESSEE HILL       Sometimes, Farm Boy
ASHLEY KUNSA       I Need Her on Her Knees
B. TYLER LEE       Vesper Bell with Supply Chain Breakdown
KAREN MCPHERSON       To the Quick
HELENA MESA       The want for faith
CINDY JUYOUNG OK       In Atlanta
DESIREE SANTANA       Flatfooting & Fatalism
JAMIE L. SMITH       Swatches
                            Training Ground
NICOLE STOCKBURGER       Palindrome
ALEXANDRA TEAGUE       Correlations     (online only)
ANEEQA WATTOO       Women's Time

C O V E R   A R T
DORIS ALEXANDER THOMPSON      Darker Sister, 1944. Ink on Paper. Gift of Dr. Lynn Barstis Williams Katz to the Imprinting the South Collection. Collection of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University.
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Volume 56 No. 1      SPRING 2023


​N O N F I C T I O N
W.P. OSBORN       The Remnants: Author Note and Review
MARIAN RYAN       Enchanted

F I C T I O N
CODA CANEPA       Herman
ELIZABETH GONZALEZ JAMES       The Tiny and Fleeting Pleasure of Feeling Moored
MEHDI M. KASHANI       The House Behind the Crossed Windows
HELENA OLUFSEN       Miriam Hour

​​P O E T R Y
SHARON ACKERMAN       A Walk After Retirement
HUSSAIN AHMED       Radio
CELIA BLAND       Shooting Script: Brazen Jackson, Season One
                         Episode 8: Brazen Jackson: "Tomahawk Chop!"
                         Epidsode 9: Brazen Jackson: "Doggie-Do"
TARA SHEA BURKE       What on Earth
BRITTANY CAVALLARO       Tornado in December
LAWRENCE DI STEFANO       Translation with Traffic
TIMOTHY DONNELLY       The Voices
KRISTINA ERNY       A History of Chartreuse
JADE HIDLE       A Natural History of Jade
HAESONG KWON       Knowledge of Tea
ALAFIA NICOLE SESSIONS       On Nights My Son Asks to Sleep in My Bed
MARIA ZOCCOLA       missus johnson goes to church on sundays

​C O V E R  A R T
SARA GEVURTZ      Inorganic Plains, 2021. Video Still. Courtesy of the artist.
* Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2024
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Volume 56 No. 2      SUMMER 2023


​N O N F I C T I O N
AMANDA GAINES       Flea*
L.I. HENLEY       A Blur on the Spine*
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F I C T I O N
KIM SAMEK       A Nervous Tic Motion Kind of Peace
CAROLINE SCHMIDT       How the Weight of the Earth Presses Down
CAMERON VANDERWERF       Blood Money Melancholy
TARA ISABEL ZAMBRANO       Hairball

​P O E T R Y
ROBERT CHIWAMBA translated by BENEDICTO WOKOMAATANI MALUNGA       Life
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN       I Tell a Friend
​MELISSA CROWE       Untouch
STEPHANIE YUE DUHEM       Ariadne in Triptych
STEPHANIE YUE DUHEM       Central Market
TIKUMBUKE H. HARARE       How a Woman Should Be Praised
MARTIN CHRISPINE JUWA       In Praise of Loneliness
WILLIAM KHALIPWINA MPINA       I Am the Fire
ATHENA KILDEGAARD       Returning Home
ATHENA KILDEGAARD       Nostalgia
​RAYMUNDO CHIFUNDO MAGANGANI       After Church Service
​NDONGOLERA C. MWANGUPILI       In Ilala
​JEFFERSON NAVICKY       Moon Review at the Emergency Vet
NYIRONGO PATRICIA ANUWALITY       The Symmetry Cry
​JENNIFER POLSON PETERSON       The Students
​GRACE ATHAUYE SHARRA       My Ex's Socks

​C O V E R  A R T
PAULETTE TAVORMINA      Lemons and Prickly Pears, 2013. Edition: 5 of 5. Inkjet print, pigment based. Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; The William Dunlop Collection.
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Volume 56 No. 3      FALL 2023

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​N O N F I C T I O N
ESINAM BEDIAKO       The Daddy Issues
AMY BENSON       Active Shooter

​F I C T I O N
JUDITH DANCOFF       Still Life with Cherries
EMMETT KNOWLTON       Plans
NICOLE SIMONSEN       Listen to Me, Dahling!
HEATHER SWAIN       Pool Robot

P O E T R Y
HUSSAIN AHMED       Sand Therapy†
JESSICA COHN       Body
JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH       10 Months Since the Full-Scale Invasion of My Birthplace as Math Problem
JESSICA JACOBS       Elegy in Prophetic Perfect
JESSICA JACOBS       Joint Account
JESSICA JACOBS       Why There Is No Hebrew Word for Obey
SHANNAN MANN       a poem of many births†​
DAVID MOOLTEN       Grindelia Squarrosa
JED MYERS       Empathy's Shadow
WESLEY ROTHMAN       Chasing a Fugitive
SAMYAK SHERTOK       Mother Tongue: A Haunting*
MELANIE TAFEJIAN       Zeitun
FELICIA ZAMORA       The Dead Sea Is Dying


*Winner of the 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
†Runner-up of the 2023 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

​C O V E R  A R T
ANDRÉ MASSON      Untitled (female nude with horses), n.d. Edition: 22/50. Color etching with aquatint. Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; The Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Mark Thornton Collection 2013.15.05.
© 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

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Volume 56 No. 4      WINTER 2023


​N O N F I C T I O N
CHRIS CAMPANIONI       Seen and Not Seen
JENNIFER TAYLOR-SKINNER       I Don't Want Somebody in My House

​F I C T I O N
CHAYA BHUVANESWAR       Wormhole
AREEJ QURAISHI       51°3.6' N, 12°49' W
M.C. SCHMIDT       The Rabbit Died
RACHEL TALBOT       Wild Animals of Las Vegas

​P O E T R Y
ABDULKAREEM ABDULKAREEM       Kismet
TERRY BELEW       The Anatomy of the Cold
ANDERS CARLSON-WEE       Caught
JACKIE CHICALESE       Wreckage
ALIYAH COTTON       Event Horizon
BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO       Home Improvement
TREY MOODY       River Oblivions​
ROBERT OKAJI       Angels on High
EMILY OLIVER       A Decade Made of Hours
DOUG RAMSPECK       Center of Gravity
CHEYENNE TAYLOR       Key to the South
CHEYENNE TAYLOR       Imitations of Cartography
ALEX TRETBAR       Book of Years
LINDSEY WAYLAND       A Woman Strolls by a Table with a Warm Apricot Atop
RL WHEELER       Ars Poetica: Lyric by River I Am Always Running Toward

​C O V E R  A R T
NORA KELLY      Stairway to Heaven, 2023. Oil. Courtesy of the artist.

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 * Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025
** Selected as a Winner of the 2025 O. Henry Prize edited by Edward P. Jones

Volume 57 No. 1      SPRING 2024


​N O N F I C T I O N
SHALA ERLICH       Lost and Unlost*
ADELE ELISE WILLIAMS       Murder Walks

F I C T I O N
MARILYN ABILDSKOV       The Sadness of Wicker
MACK BASHAM       The Wandering Gringo
SAM SCHIEREN       Non Sequitur
YAH YAH SCHOLFIELD       Strange Fruit**

P O E T R Y
URVASHI BAHUGUNA       In Paintings of Motherhood, Why Are the Children Always Young?
MIRANDE BISSELL       Reading Notes: What Belongs to You
JOHN BLAIR       The Greatest Weight
MIKE BOVE       Gemstones of the Western Foothills
RYAN DZELZKALNS       There's Flooding in Kyushu and Everyone Wants to Know If You're Okay
ALLISON HUTCHCRAFT       Is Wrack, Is Rak, Is Wreckage
ALLISON HUTCHCRAFT       Cobble
DIANE LEBLANC       Dust of a Future​
EDWARD LEES       Universe in a Spoon
CHLOE MARTINEZ       Rationale
LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER       Derrida's Cat
HEATHER QIN       Lessons on Healing
ELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS       daugh·​ter
ROSS WHITE       Poem in Which Kurt Cobain Appears

C O V E R  A R T
DIANA CATCHPOLE      Fauna, 2023. Linocut Print. Courtesy of the artist.
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* Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025

Volume 57 No. 2      SUMMER 2024


N O N F I C T I O N
DEBRA DEAN       End Times
MAGGIE NYE       June 1, 2020: A Photo Essay*

​F I C T I O N
TAYLOR DE LA PEÑA       Rival Kings
EMILY GREENBERG       Wild Wild Wolves
SVETLANA SATCHKOVA       Summer Break
GABRIEL WELSCH       Words Like Zeitgeist

​P O E T R Y
CARSON COLENBAUGH       Love Song in Someone Else's Loblolly Stand
PATRICIA DAVIS       My Cousin the Surgeon
ELIZABETH C. GARCIA       When the nuns arrive at the zoo
ELISA A. GARZA       Radiation Bestiary
HUA QING translated by LIANG YUJING       Story, Again, of the Stone
HEATHER JESSEN       Alternative Lives with Teeth
THOMAS KNEELAND       African American Abecedarian
JAMES DAVIS MAY       Referred Pain​
JAMES DAVIS MAY       About That Ghost We Don't Believe In
MATTHEW NIENOW       Ownership
SUSAN RICH       After Thirty Years I Return to the Cape to Collect a Sprig of White Pine
ANGELA SORBY       Find a Penny, Pick It Up
LINDSAY STEWART       Interview with an Ancestor
LAURA VAN PROOYEN       Feathers and Gills
ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT       I Put Life on Hold

​C O V E R  A R T
GEORGE LUKS      Holiday on the Hudson, 1912. Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art; Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1933.2291.

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** Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2025

Volume 57 No. 3      FALL 2024


N O N F I C T I O N
CHRISTINE HALE       Inside       Outside       In-between**
NELL SMITH       Fragments of Bone, Fragments of Light**

F I C T I O N
OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN       Ardor and Not in Nine Parts
SAMANTHA KATHRYN O'BRIEN       Of Evie, I Dream
LISA CLAY SHANAHAN       The Wandered Off
LAUREN D. WOODS       Evening by the Lake

​P O E T R Y
GREGORY EMILIO       Blank Pages in the Short Book of Hunger‡
ANDREW HEMMERT       So Tell Me How It Ends†
ERIKA JING       Follow*
JENNY QI       Flagellum‡
WESLEY ROTHMAN       Wanted: Rivers†
GENEVA TOLAND       No Milk in This Country // Removal Is a Word That Absolves Itself‡
FELICIA ZAMORA       Xibalbá :: Extinction†
SHAHRYAR ESKANDARI ZANJANI       A Queen in the Zugzwang of Life‡

*Winner of the 2024 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
†Runner-up for the 2024 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
‡Honorable Mention for the 2024 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

​C O V E R  A R T
WILLIAM GROPPER      Home, n.d. Oil on canvas. Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; Advancing American Art Collection 1948.01.16. Permission given by the William Gropper Estate.

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Volume 57 No. 4      WINTER 2024


​N O N F I C T I O N
BROOKE CHAMPAGNE       Ain't Carlos
AUSTIN SEGREST       Hungry All the Years

​F I C T I O N
TREVOR CROWN       Panorama City
JIHOON PARK       O-Lan, You Are the Earth
SUNETHRA RAJAKARUNANAYAKE translated by MADHUBHASHINI DISANAYAKA RATNAYAKE       The Doll's Death
ASHLEY WURZBACHER       Vivarium

P O E T R Y
LIYANAGE AMARAKEERTHI translated by ALEXANDER MCKINLEY       The Empty Chair
RUWAN BANDUJEEWA translated by MADHUBHASHINI DISANAYAKA RATNAYAKE      The Lake
CHRISTIAN J. COLLIER       The Men in My Family Disappeared
STACI HALT       Dogma
ARIELLE HEBERT       The Inventors
ISURINIE ANURADHA MALLAWAARACHCHI       Amma
BRANDI NICOLE MARTIN       Minor Procedure When We Thought the Worst Was Over
MATTHEW NISINSON       Apparent
​M.A. NUHMAN translated by SUMATHY SIVAMOHAN       Last Evening, This Morning
TINA SCHUMANN       Self-Portrait as Pathetic Fallacy
NATHAN SPOON       To Earth
NATHAN SPOON       Welcome Back
LLOYD WALLACE       Home

​C O V E R  A R T
SHYAMA GOLDEN      Blood Orange Moon, 2024. Oil on linen. 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

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Volume 58 No. 1      SPRING 2025


I N T R O D U C T I O N
JEREMY PADEN       On Appalachian Roots

​N O N F I C T I O N
JOANNA ACEVEDO       Oh, Lydia
MADELINE JONES       Blue & Eye

​F I C T I O N
SARA LEVINE       Tribe
SUMITA MUKHERJI       After the River
ENYINNA NNABUIHE       The Curse
COTTON O'CONNELL       The Waiting Place

​P O E T R Y
WILLIE CARVER       No Smoking
BERNARD CLAY      a holler hello/ymmv in Appalachia
DORIAN HAIRSTON       Offred
PAULETTA HANSEL       Great-Grandmother Sestina
MARC HARSHMAN       This Time
JANE HICKS       A Mountain Poet Reads Lorca
SILAS HOUSE       Behold This Dreamer
LISA J. PARKER       Two Sunrises
​RANDI WARD       Groundwork
WILLIAM WOOLFITT       Like One Body Cut Into a Thousand Shreds
MARIANNE WORTHINGTON       Hunter's Moon

​C O V E R  A R T
FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH      Storm in the Mountains, 1847. Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of various donors by exchange and Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund 1969.52.

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Volume 58 No. 2      SUMMER 2025


N O N F I C T I O N
ALLISON C. MACY-STEINES       Ampersand
JULIE MARIE WADE       Meditation 42

​F I C T I O N
NWANNE AGWU       Like Skeletons Without Skin
LESLIE PIETRZYK       Not Everyone Says Good-bye
ALYSSA QUINN       The End of Ends
WILLIAM PEI SHIH       Boy Toy

​P O E T R Y
SEAN CHO A.        Abandoned Love Sonnet #2
SEAN CHO A.      Abandoned Love Sonnet #5
RHONY BHOPLA       Daughter, Water
RHONY BHOPLA       An Ancient Song Emerged From Her Lips
LEIA K. BRADLEY       Good Place to Be From, or So They Say
PATRYCJA HUMIENIK       Cape Disappointment
PATRYCJA HUMIENIK       To a Younger Self, Younger than I Remember
WILLIE LEE KINARD III       À la Mode
WILLIE LEE KINARD III       Rose of Sharon, or Ezekiel Said
JENI O'NEAL       You Ask If Loving a Woman Is Easier
MANDY SHUNNARAH       Dreaming of a Whole New World

​C O V E R  A R T
JAYE BARTELL      Gray Stray Cat 68th Avenue, December, 2022. Olympus Pen FT half-frame camera. Courtesy of the artist.
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Volume 58 No. 3      FALL 2025


N O N F I C T I O N
CHAYA BHUVANESWAR       Akele, “Alone”
TIMOTHY COOK      Being & Numbness
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F I C T I O N
EDIDIONG UZOMA ESSIEN       Cutting One Cord, Knitting Another
THEODORE MCCOMBS       Man in the Wall
JULIE PECORARO       Someone Else’​s Wish
LAURA SPENCE-ASH       Body Burden

​P O E T R Y
LEILA FARJAMI        More Than a Dirge†
HEATHER JESSEN      Autumnal Poem with War in It
CAROLINE HARPER NEW       The Aquariums Keep Exploding†
MAGGIE NIPPS       Vantage
JANICE LOBO SAPIGAO       On Muscle Memory
ELLEN SAZZMAN       To Plait Another’s Hair
CLAYTON SPENCER       Ensuring That My Grief Knows I Mean Business, in the Land of Swinging Bridges
CLAYTON SPENCER       Reasons to Launch One Thousand Ships
CLAYTON SPENCER       The Muskrat, or Against Anthropomorphism
AJIBOLA TOLASE       Mississippi Goddamn
HANA WIDERMAN       Collage of Wreckage*
ISSAM ZINEH      History

*Winner of the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
†Runner-up of the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

​C O V E R  A R T
KANSUKE MORIOKA      Message 83P-7A, 1983. Ink on paper. 2000.01.087. Transferred from the Auburn University Art Department. The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University.
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Volume 58 No. 4      WINTER 2025


​N O N F I C T I O N
LAURA GRACE HITT       Wheezy Trill
GABRIELA MAYES      On Hurricane Ida and Other Disasters: A Letter to My American Son
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F I C T I O N
ARIEL KATZ       Rhea
LIM HYEON translated by YAERIM GEN KWON       Posture of Apology
JOANNA PEARSON       Legacy
PARDEEP TOOR       Stranded in the Dunes

​P O E T R Y
DEBMALYA BANDYOPADHYAY      Kinds of Boys
A.J. BERMUDEZ      Lanternfly
CLAIRE CHRISTOFF      Case Study House No. 18B
CLAIRE CHRISTOFF      Case Study House No. 28
DORSEY CRAFT      Agnostic
CAPRICE GARVIN      Near Forest’s Edge
JARED HARÉL      Poem Beginning with a Line by Lisel Mueller
BOB HICOK      Taking the time to think of time
BOB HICOK      Home repairs
DT HOLT      My Plum
DIANA KEREN LEE      I Believed in the Sound
OLADEJO ABDULLAH FERANMI      The Christening
OLADEJO ABDULLAH FERANMI      After the Rain
SABRINA SPENCE      Uses for the Handkerchief
JESSIE WINGATE      Liquid amber trees

​C O V E R  A R T
MAURICE DUMONT      (French, 1870-1899). Sappho, 1895. Gypsograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Friends of the Department of Prints and Drawings 1991.153.
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