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Spring/Summer 2022

Conversation

A Conversation with Elsa Nekola
Writing Through A Place

Fiction

Akhim Alexis
I, Cassava
Finalist for the 2021 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction
Hayden Casey
Evergreen
Alayna Becker
Doe

Poetry

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
pa-la-la-la
M.R. "Chibbi" Orduña
Diaspora – A Spiral
AM Ringwalt
Egg
Evan Nicholls
2 Poems
Jeffrey Hecker
Hans Zimmer’s Phones
Matthew Tuckner
The Holocene, with Figurative Language
Winner of the 2022 Yellowwood Poetry Prize

art

MARINA LEIGH is a queer, biracial writer and photographer. She was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She earned her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is the 2020 recipient of the University of Mississippi’s Grisham Fellowship in poetry, where she is currently earning her MFA. She currently serves on the editorial board for Yalobusha Review, and has previously served on the editorial board for The Meadow and as the copy editor for Insight Magazine at UNR. She has had poems and visual art published in several journals, including Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Product Magazine, where her poem “Cherubs in the Clouds” was the poetry prize winner, and Truckee Meadows Community College’s literary journal The Meadow. She was also the inaugural UNR English Undergraduate Chapbook Contest winner, resulting in the publication of her chapbook, Wild Daughter.