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  • A woman with blue eyes, dark-rimmed glasses, and dark pink lipstick smiles with her mouth closed. Her hair is dark with gray in it and she wears a white and black striped shirt and a black jacket. The background is blue.

    An interview with Tiffany Midge

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    In her book of essays, Bury My Heart At Chuck E. Cheese’s, author Tiffany Midge uses humor as an act of resistance and reclamation. While humor categories in traditional publishing are dominated by white authors, it’s high time Midge take her place as one of the funniest names in satire.

  • A white woman with short hair wears round glasses and a black sweater. She gazes at the camera. The photo is in black and white.

    Vertigo

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    In her poem Vertigo, author and poet Amba Elieff captures the dizzying horror that is having your world flipped upside-down mid step and what it means to push through it like nothing happened.

  • A white person, with long, dark hair and glasses smiles at the camera. The background is all thin threes and blue skies.

    An interview with E.M. Anderson

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    No one understands why eighty-three-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, but Edna, armed with only gumption and knitting needles, leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. We spoke with author E.M. Anderson about The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, mental health and invisible illness representation, and American white pelicans.

  • Lessons in Belonging

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    “The average able-bodied stranger, though, only notices the ways my body is different from theirs.” In her essay, Lessons in Belonging, Julie Weissman-Steinbaugh details her experience growing up with cerebral palsy.

  • An interview with Bridgette Dutta Portman

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    Olive Joshi has messed up big time. When she falls through a portal into her own abandoned story, Olive finds double suns scorching the earth, a brutal prince seeking power, and her heroine missing. We spoke with author Bridgette Dutta Portman about The Coseema Saga, the third book of which is out now.

  • A Black person with white-rimmed glasses smiles widely with their eyes closed. They are holding their book, DEAR PHILOMENA by Mugabi Byenkya, and are surrounded by a circle of light.

    Seizure #774

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    If a loved one infringed on one of your most private moments for their own curiosity, how would you respond? That’s what author and poet Mugabi Byenkya writes about in their poem, Seizure #774, which takes place during a seizure.

  • An interview with Camri Kohler

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    When twenty-three-year-old surly (and slightly tipsy) Frankie finds her hag of a grandmother dead on the sofa, her best friend Ben introduces her to the magical underbelly of Aspen Ridge, Utah. We spoke to debut author Camri Kohler about her horrifying urban fantasy novel, Peachy.

  • A person with long, brown hair, bangs, and black rimmed glasses hides half their face behind a black and brown cat with blue eyes.

    Ghosts

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    “I think about ghosts and love./I think about haunted houses and empty spaces.” So begins AM Rodriguez’s ethereal poem, Ghosts, about the grief that haunts us, the longing we can’t escape, and a morbid curiosity the speaker can’t shake.

  • A white woman with short hair wears round glasses and a black sweater. She gazes at the camera. The photo is in black and white.

    An interview with Amba Elieff

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    Amba Elieff spent most of her life a closet poet. Now, she’s put her work out there for all to see in her debut collection, Maiden, Mother, Crone. We spoke with Elieff about sacred spaces, womanhood, and what it means to be in community with other through her work.

  • The picture shows the cover of The Recall Paradox by Julian R. Vaca. The text on the top says, "In this war, memories are weapons."

    Book Excerpt: The Recall Paradox

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    Author Julian R. Vaca is back with the sequel to his YA dystopian debut, The Memory Index, in which alliances are made, memories disappear, and no one is who they seem to be. The Recall Paradox is out April 11, 2023.