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  • VOLUME 8
  • Editor’s Note
  • Fiction
    • Garden Manifesto by Ellery Beck
    • Blue Chimera Camera by Kile Zomar Lowery
    • And One Happy Halloween by Beatrice Ogeh
    • Berlin by Haley Thielen
  • Creative Nonfiction
    • The Stock of a Writer by Saitharn Im-Iam
    • Balancing Act by Grace Ramos
    • To Breathe, To Blow by Camille Whisenant
  • Poetry
    • God by Geoffrey Ayers
    • Honeylocust by Greer McAllister
    • daphne devine died with the room key by Jack Mitchell
    • i killed leo at the reception by Jack Mitchell
    • The Absence on Sunflower Street by J. Nehemiah
    • Feeding the Birds by Annie Przypyszny
    • seven lives in the art museum by Madeline Ragsdale
    • lost days by Madeline Ragsdale
  • Author Interview with with Kawai Strong-Washburn
  • Student Editor Book Reviews
    • Black Star
    • Crying in H Mart
    • Klara and the Sun
    • Self-Portrait with Cephalopod
    • Some People Let You Down

BOOK REVIEWS

by volume eight student editors:

Black Star
by Eric Anthony Glover
Ill. by Arielle Jovellanos
Harry M. Abrams

Reviewed by Cal MacFarland

Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Penguin Random House

Reviewed by Emma Harrington

Self-Portrait with Cephalopod
by Kathryn Smith
Milkweeds Editions

Reviewed by Larissa Larson

Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Penguin Random House

Reviewed by Angel Kidd

Some People Let You Down
by Mike Alberti
University of North Texas Press

Reviewed by Olivia Rose Lee

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