Selected Stories
“And suddenly it seems like me and all the kids and Mrs. Candler are squeaking madly. Surreal. Fellini meets Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons.”
Chris Sumberg lives in East Tennessee. His work has been published in The Guardian, Chronogram, Urbanite, OrionOnline (Orion Magazine), RealPoetik, Binx Street, and other magazines and journals.
“Annuals were too fake for your taste. They had an artificial quality—a burst of flamboyance and then gone forever. Their blossoms were a little too scripted. But their alternative—the perennial—tested all of what was supposed to be substantive and eternal.”
Kathryn Streeter was born to missionaries in the Philippines and in 24 years of marriage has lived in many great places around the world including London, Dubai, Germany and Washington, DC. Streeter’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Literary Mama, Mamalode, The Good Men Project, and elephant journal. Her essay was named a finalist in The Briar Cliff Review Creative Nonfiction Contest and appeared in Volume 26. A fulltime wife, mother and writer, Streeter resides in Austin, Texas. You can find her on Twitter @streeterkathryn.
“I am not sure why my mother is still here in this house, in this town, in Iowa. She teaches history a city over and there is nothing tying her to this place except perhaps a sense of loyalty. I always imagined she thought that if she moved, a mass exodus would abandon the town she had called home to ashes and dust.”
Originally from Seattle, WA, Kim Bussing is currently in Georgetown University’s Honors English program and previously studied creative writing at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. When not writing, she can be found at a used bookstore, drinking too much coffee, or on Twitter: @kimbussing.
Inherited Vocabulary: An Interview with Lacy Johnson
By Amanda Scott
Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based artist, curator, teacher, activist, and author of The Other Side (Tin House, 2014) and Trespasses: A Memoir (University of Iowa Press, 2012), and she is co-creator of the location-based storytelling project the invisible city. She worked as a cashier at Wal-Mart, sold steaks door-to-door, and puppeteered with a traveling children’s museum before earning a PhD from University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Houston Arts Alliance, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Kansas Arts Commission (may it rest in peace), the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Inprint, and Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, The Racial Imaginary (Fence Books, 2014), Fourth Genre, Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2013), Creative Nonfiction, Sentence, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She teaches Interdisciplinary Art at University of Houston.