
Poetry
Zamzam Abdullahi: Do I Have the Right?
Edill Ali: “Empty Dreams”
Mohamed Ali: “Mirror”
Sara Alsheikh: “Pain” and “City that Sleeps”
Abby Asmuth: “Snow Globes” and “You She Once Knew”
Deka A. Bade: “Where I am From”
Aisha Bashir: “The Wise River”
Manqi Chen: “He Exists” and “Glory”
Alejandra Constantino: “Criminal”
Castiel Crews: “Ghost Boy”
Cesar Diaz: “Little Bird” and “Continuity”
Aiden Duarte: “The Duality of Loss” and “The World’s Longest Joke”
Anishka Duggal: “Subjugation,” “Explaining the Marangoni Effect,” and “Father Tells Me”
Avery Garcia: “Starry Skies”
Priyanka Jagadeesh: “You”
Kevin Jang: “What’s Cooking” and “I Hear a Ringing in my Ears”
Lauren Kawecki: “Choice” and “Flight”
Luci Kirlin: “Learning How to Do Relationships” series
Jessica Lao: “Penelope” and “Cassandra”
Alicia Manning: “War” and “Crossroads”
Stephanie Martinez-Beltran: “The Sun Does Not Shine Today” and “The Blue Butterfly”
Darren Mouk: “Revolve”
Layla Munye: “Mama Somalia”
Britney Obasi:“The Best Explanation”
Maggie Odom: “Pluto”
Elizabeth Pacheco: “Disjointed” and “Snow”
Maihan Phan: “Euphoria”
Ashley Renselaer: “A Golden Shovel” and “Veil”
Samantha Schmiedel: “Drops of Spring” and “Diamond River of Thoughts”
Paola Eva Sifuentes: “Blossom Five”
Mike Sims: “Xanax Boy,” “Song of the People,” and “Where Did All the Lilies Blow”
Krysta Szuszka: “Mirror, Mirror” and “Poison”
Ashley Tandoc: “Boat” and “Elysium”
Alyssa Valenzuela: “Leaves”
Clarice Yau: “A Bushel of Banned Books”
Fiction
Kiyani Carter: “May 3rd, 2018”
Janelle Edgar: “The Oldest Man”
Avery Garcia: “A Single Tear”
Charity Griffin: “The Devil Can’t Smile”
Alissar Nahhas: “Unclear”
Maihan Phan: “When Interdimensional Radio Waves Meet Grad Students”
Krysta Szuszka: “Ghosts in the Rain between Night and Day”
Violette Valencia: “Raising Joy”
Connor Wallace: “I Remember”
Micro Works
Aubrey Koyle: “Did You Know Her?”
Akyr Makuach: “Black Pearl”
Emma Mancilla: “There’s a First Time for Everything”
Violette Valencia: “My Ode to Books”
Nonfiction
Mike Sims: “The Holocaust in Literature”
Connor White: “The Light in the Mountains and Deserts”
Reviews
Pablo Orozco: “No Spoiler: They Really Do Both Die”
Images
Wren Leyva: “Orange Mist,” “Blink Once,” and “Liability”
Kevin Nguyen: “Studying but Suffering”
Audrey Parker: “Illusion,” “Being,” “Unknown,” Scratch,” and “Reaching”
Vivyan Perez: “Outstretch”
Leah Urrutia: “Off White,” “Pink Matter,” “Paradise,” “In Bloom,” “Lush”