Letter from the Editor

John Hardberger

John Hardberger is a Texpat writer and radio DJ, now living in New Mexico. He’s a third year fiction MFA candidate at UNM and an alum of the 2025 Clarion Writers Workshop. His fiction straddles fantasy and reality, the mundane and the weird, exploring the liminal spaces between identities, cultures, and landscapes. His journalism has appeared in Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Edible New Mexico, and he blogs about arts and culture at voyagerradio.substack.com.

Lawrence Bridges

Lawrence Bridges is best known for his work in the film and literary world. His photographs have been exhibited at the Las Laguna Art Gallery, the London Photo Festival, the ENSO Gallery in Malibu, and were featured in the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery in November 2025. He created a series of literary documentaries for the National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” initiative, which includes profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick. He lives in Los Angeles. You can find him on IG: @larrybridges