Judith Lewis is a name that not many readers will recognize; but those who fell victim to the late 2000s-early 2010s dystopian/ fantasy young adult novel craze (think Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, later Harry Potter novels, The Selection, etc.) might recognize...
TW: This post deals with eating disorders. Melissa Broder’s short novel, Milkfed, discusses a world often left untouched by literature, especially fiction, that world being the hellscape that is living with an eating disorder. In short, the book follows Rachel, a...
I once read about a small town in New Mexico that was overrun by tumbleweeds. After further research, the location became more realized to me: Clovis is a military town close to the Texas border where the land is flat and relatively featureless compared to the rest of...
As a writer who constantly deals with writing blocks and boredom when it comes to writing at home, I have found it helpful to move around. Exploring has always encouraged creativity and I have often found myself wandering around different parts of Albuquerque in...
“If I must die, you must live” – from “If I must die” by Refaat Alareer What do we do when a poet is killed? How do we respond—as a magazine, as students, as writers—when a poet is imprisoned, tortured, expelled, exiled? When a poet is executed? When a poet is...
