It is winter. It is cold. It is freezing. You’ve left a bottle of water in the car, and as you throw yourself into the driver’s seat, grumpy and hassled, you notice it. The water inside is clear—still, like glass behind the plastic—and you pick it up, thinking to...
I am so excited to serve as creative nonfiction editor for Blue Mesa Review this year. As I begin sifting through submissions for our Fall 2025 issue, I’ll look for essays with a few key features. I tend to gravitate toward pieces with a compelling premise and...
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...
