Cover Art

Santurce, Puerto Rico by Photojournalist Victor J. Blue

Fiction

Better Truths by Soek Fambul

Prodigal by Wandeka Gayle

Mudslide by Matan Gold

Farradiyya by Reem Kassis

Señal by Townsend Montilla

Played or How I Failed at Becoming a Chapiadora by Cleyvis Natera

Cast Away by Britney Wilson

Nonfiction

With love, to the Sertão das Gerais by Juliana Ravelli

Poetry

The Tower of Babel Fails Reverse-Engineering at Aburi by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

Antigua Black by Brian Francis

Between Drafts by Brian Francis

Half of the Parrots Disappeared by Karl Michael Iglesias

Lessons Ghazal by Preeti Parikh

Elegy for the Way Home by Yamini Pathak

Manifesto for the Indian Widow Who Wishes to Live by Yamini Pathak

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