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MASTHEAD

Executive Editor – Sheryl St. Germain

Editor-in-Cheif – Sheila Squillante

Managing Editor – Kelly Kepner

Fiction Editor – Marc Nieson

Nonfiction Editor – Sheila Squillante

Poetry Editor – Heather McNaugher

Associate Editors – Lisa Slage-Robinson

Assistant Editors – Jeffrey Bolden, Melanie DeStefano, Alyssa Guelcher, Rachel Kaufman, Shelby Newsom, Elizabeth Royce, Anthony Scoop, Aspen Stoddard, Kammi Trout

Copy Editors – Jeffrey Bolden, Melanie DeStefano, Alyssa Guelcher, Rachel Kaufman, Shelby Newsom, Lisa Slage-Robinson, Elizabeth Royce, Anthony Shoop, Aspen Stoddard, Kammi Trout

Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum

Administrative Support – Brittany Hailer

Cover Art – Cindy Derby, “Day Dreaming”

Juvenescence feature

POETRY

  • Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Self-Portrat at Fourteen

  • M.L. Brown, Some Color; Candlepins

  • Jenna Le, Sibling Rivalry

  • Paul Martin, Talents; Stations

  • John Davis, Why I Skip School; Bowline; Center of Energy

  • Clara Schwartz, Before We Know Darkness; Crisis, 1962

  • Anne M Rashid, That Field of Long Grass

  • Charles Kell, High School Field Trip; Shop Class

  • Grant Clauser, After the Tree Fort Fire

  • Dayna Patterson, Apples

  • Maxine Susman, Time Zones

  • Terresa Cooper Haskew, Why I Am Not An Only Child

  • Jennifer Gravley, Boys

  • Lisa Summe, Coming Out

  • Fred Shaw, Reason to Be; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

  • Karen Paul Holmes, Pinpointing My Anxiety

  • David Thornbrugh, Shopping for Pop-Tarts with My Mother

  • Mackie Garrett, In Defense of Idleness

  • Donna J. Long, Eleventh Grade English Oral; Dead-end Road

  • H.K. Hummel, Urban Self-Portrait

  • John Zedolik, To Turtle; Passion Study

  • Erin Cummiskey, S-C

  • Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson, What You Answer To

  • Melissa Oliveira, Birdwatching: A Primer; Trespassing; Tick; At First; Pruning

  • Ellen Gloldstein, Going to Ground; Partial Eclipse; Della

  • Zilka Joseph, Tea with the Romantics

  • Janice Miller Potter, Dame School

  • Rober Gibb, Richard Carpe; Soap & Water

  • Steve Myers, Forerunner

  • Elisabeth Farrell, Mosquitoes

  • Emari DiGiorgio, Interrogating the Archangel, or In Defense of the Dark; Leaves of Paper, Shards of Bone

  • Athena Kildegaard, First Snow in the Neighborhood

  • Shari Winslow, Housekeeping

  • Jennifer Martelli, Stone-colored Birds

  • Scott T. Hutchison, I Was Kid

fiction

  • Tom Weller, The Mulberry Tree

  • David Athey, Learning to Drink

  • Hallie Pritts, God Punishes Fornicators and Musicians

  • Jan Haag, Dialing for Jesus

  • Emily Ansara Baines, Makeup Shopping with Mr.s Monroe

  • Steve Scholzmon, Motion

  • Katie M. Flynn, Recede

  • Mylene Dressler, The Accident of the Fire

NONFICTION

  • Kate Leary, The Name Game

  • Grade 5/6 students of ‘'Waratah’ class, South Arm Primary School, Tasmania, Australia, Senses of South Arm

  • Tim Hillegonds, The Right Kind of Time

  • Justin Maxwell, Of Fog

  • Christopher Barzak, Risking it All: The Rewards of Living and Writing with Higher Stakes

  • Rachel Hiser, Rendering the Fantastic: An Interview with Christopher Barzak

Other featured work

Poetry

  • Robin Becker, Alex, an Obituary; True Blue Communications Man

  • Hannah Larrabee, Butcher Bone; Edge

  • G.C. Waldrep, Touching Lichens

  • Suzanne Langlois, Insomniac’s Lullaby; Spring Night

  • John Elliot, Yermo

  • Jeffrey Alfier, North from Tangiers; Your Side of Odessa Canyon

  • Michelle Brooks, The Kitchen Is Closed but the Bar Stays Open Late; Camp Bowie at Night

  • Chelsea Dingman, In Old Montreal, Two Rivers

  • Lee Peterson, Inheritance

fiction

  • Jeffrey Honduran, Salt of the Earth

  • Milena Nigam, What Kind of Feeling is There?

Nonfiction

  • Jocelyn Heath, February’s Foot