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Nerve Chorus (The Word Works, 2018). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Narrative, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry video and multimedia work has been featured in Interim, Narrative Outloud, Writers Resist, and other venues. She earned her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New York City. willacarroll.com  

Auden Lincoln-Vogel is an American filmmaker whose work spans from animation to expanded cinema performances. His experimental films, animations, and live action narrative films have been screened at festivals including Slamdance Film Festival, Black Nights Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, and the European Media Arts Festival. He is the recipient of a 2016 Fulbright Scholarship in Tallinn, Estonia, where he also received an MA in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2019. He is currently based in Iowa City, Iowa, where he is an MFA candidate in Film and Video Production at the Unive...

When Angela cornered Lucy in the girls’ locker room and said, “White girl!” there was a moment when Lucy wanted to tell her how she wasn’t white or black, only the perfect mix of both, which is what her father liked to say. Instead, she turned away as her mother had taught her. Her mother would say, “Don’t fight. Be better than those petty girls, baby.” One of the LaLas, either LaDonnia or LaTasha, freshman girls who’d once been friends with Lucy, said, “Cut her hair!” and laughed. Lucy grabbed the long thick braids that trailed down her back and tried to think of a comeba...

After my best friend died I became jealous of the fireflies and kept smashing them against my forehead. I wanted my loneliness to be visible to those I loved. For people to see the yellow balloons I hid in my lungs. What I’m saying is I couldn’t breathe for an entire year. When they tore down her elementary school, we all lined up, days later, for bricks. We held them against

George H. Gurley wrote a general interest column for the Kansas City Star three times a week for ten years and was the book review editor for a number of years. He later wrote a regular column for the Lawrence, Kansas Journal World. He has two books of poetry ( Home Movies, Raindust Press and Fugues in the Plumbing, BkMk Press and a collection of columns with Peter Simpson ( Press Box and City Room, BkMk Press). His poems and short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Poetry and Cures and Cures won the Missouri Arts Council's playwriting contest. His book reviews have appea...