Issue 9 Table of Contents
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Executive Editor – Sheryl St. Germain
Editor-in-Cheif – Peter Oresick
Managing Editor – Caroline Tanski
Fiction Editor – Robert Yune
Poetry Editor – Heather McNaugher
Nonfiction Editor – Marc Nieson
Assistant Editors – Nicole Bartley, Carmen Bryant, Kira Golden-Belisle, Amanda Hart, Orion Hippie, Matthew Humphrey, Jessica Kinnison, Sarah Mackinac, Elizabeth McDonnell, Gina Olszowski, Katie Regan, Lara Scandrett, Jessica Simms, Christine Stroud, Timothy Trimmer, Travis Wade, Kyra Walker
Layout & Design – Gina Olszowski
Cover Art – “‘Pulteney’s Ballad,’ Bath, England” by Marla Druzgal
FICTION
- Eric Boyd — Anything for Johnny 
- Abby Geni — Fire Blight 
- Rachel Mangini — My Sister, the Tiger 
- Jane McCafferty — The Sisters of Redemption 
- Meghan Perry — Another Ocean 
NONFICTION
- Faith Adiele — The Way Back 
- Jane Fishman — Moving On 
- Barbara Hurd — In the Garden Once Again with Adam 
- Robert Isenberg — The Hills of Paradise 
- Lori Jakiela — Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe 
- Phillip Lopate — The Future of the Essay 
- Dinty W. Moore — Tooth and Claw 
- Michele Morano — On Going and Being and Writing Like a Woman 
- Nicol Stavlas — Mountain Ranges 
- Mary Swander — The Role of the Writer in a World of Peak Everything 
- Kim Todd — The Rodent Diva 
- Kate Ver Ploeg — Where the Levee Ends 
- Margaret Whitford — What Remains 
- Lorena Williams — su•per•son•ic 
POETRY
- Kara Arguello — Homage to Gwyneth Paltrow 
- Jan Beatty — We Cover Our Heads Like Deer; White Girl in a Record Store 
- Joan Colby — Paying Attention 
- Brandon Courtney — Obsidian 
- Frank X. Gaspar — I Would Be True in My Own Body; Black Notebook, Day Six, Canadian Rockies 
- Robert Gibb — Herbal 
- Sierra Golden — Hatchery; Roses 
- Terry Hermsen — Envoi for Nathaniel 
- Ivan Hobson — Cutting His Teeth 
- William Jolliff — The Way Things Work Out 
- Randall Mann — Fling 
- Laura Jane Martin — Our House; Surveyor 
- Stephen Massimilla — Gloss 
- Travis Mossotti — The Logger 
- Lisa Mullenneaux — August 
- Nguyen Phan Que Mai — Stars in the Shape of Carrying Poles; Two Truths; The Gardener in the Royal Citadel; Journey of the Human Train 
- Dawn Potter — Incident at Jacobs Creek, 1755; The Old General's Equipage Trunk, 1784; An Elephant in Greensburg, 1808; Incident at Jacobs Creek, 1976 
- Donna Pucciani — On a Lover's Deafness 
- Jill Reid — Unrooted 
- David Salner — The Road to Philippi, WV; Paper-Mill Town; Tejas: First Spring 
- Ronald F. Smits — Inkberry 
- Richard St. John — Pluto 1; Pluto 2; Pluto 3 
- Mitchell Untch — Saving Anne Sexton for Paris; Floribunda 
INTERVIEW
- With John Balaban 
- With Phillip Lopate 
- With Stewart O'Nan