45.1, Spring 2021
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Editor’s Note
2020 EDITORS’ AWARDS
Nonfiction
Katerina Ivanov Prado, “To Be Good”
Alison B. Hart, “Endurance”
Poetry
Michael Mlekoday, “In at Least a Thousand Worlds”, “As If”, “The Maker, Misgendered”
Kim Garcia, “strange churches I have known”, “Materland”
Erin Hoover, “White woman”
Fiction
Karyna McGlynn, “Welcome to the Western Archive of Pre-Awakening Artifacts”
Victoria María Castells, “Boy Bands”
David Crouse, “Marriage or Wolves”
Chapbook
Sayuri Ayers, “The Wild Sow”
Leanne Grabel, “from ‘Husband'”
NONFICTION
Robert Erle Barham, “Gun Maintenance”
Madeleine Barowsky, “Back-of-House as Home”
Daniel Rousseau, “Toward the Physics of Trauma”
POETRY
Andrew Koch, “Catechism”
Nels Christianson, “unbearable blue”
Madelyn Garner, “When I Dream”
Karen Kovacik, “Treadmill with Virtual ActiveTM: Swiss Alps”
Joss-Michel Kisarli, “Floridian Vignette”
Anthony DiPietro, “the hardest part is knowing I’ll survive”
Arien Reed, “The Ballad of a Married Trans Man”
John Surowiecki, “Rhode Island”
Sasha West, “Cassandra”
Eric Rawson, “When My Enemy Was Alive”
Dana Roeser, “Birthday Walk in Prophetstown”
Cody Smith, “Aubade after Coming Home from the Waffle House”, “Elegy Running the River a Last Time”
Emily Paige Wilson, “Amplified Pain”
Haya Pomrenze, “The Recent College Grad, Arriving at Dachau after Enjoying a Beer Bath in Prague (She Soaked Naked in a Vat of Lager While Drinking What They Had on Tap), 2018”, “Wiedergutmachung”
D. James Smith, “These Particulars of Rain”, “Wheeling above the Darkening”
Jay Hopler, “love & the memory of it”, “appendix”
FICTION
Kristin Keane, “The Thin Space”
MH Rowe, “Vampire Swim”
Anne Sanow, “The Big Country”
Karen Kates, “Lefties”
CONTRIBUTORS