... Claytor Award for Best Poem in 2021, and they were awarded the Naomi Kitay Creative Writing Fellowship in 2022. Hannah Feustle is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi and a graduate of the University of Memphis s MFA program in fiction. She is the recipient of the 2019 Deborah L. Talbot...

.../219764398407145/?active_tab=about . Southern Poverty Law Center . n.d. “ Garrett Hardin .” www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin ( accessed July 2, 2019 ). Walker Hunter . 2015 . “ Donald Trump Just Released an Epic Statement Raging against Mexican...

... emerges in one postcard only over time, like an eye softens to darkness. This is the barbeque we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it Your son Joe Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Though the day smoldered, he must have...

..., Slipstream, Southern Indiana Review, William and Mary Review, and numerous other journals Allison Donohue holds degrees from Virginia Tech and Texas Tech University. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Whiskey Island, Hotel...

...- sity of California, Irvine. Her work has been published in Southern Indiana Review, Radar Poetry, West Review, and poets.org, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2015 and 2017. She is currently the assistant editor of The West Review. Gene Albamonte s fiction has appeared...

... is currently in the MFA program at Syracuse Uni- versity. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indi­ ana Review, Harpur Palate, South Dakota Review, Willow Springs, and others. Jaydn DeWald, an MFA candidate at Pacific University, currently lives with his wife in San Francisco, CA...

... Republic of Southern California.” Though a joke, Moyers was correct. Davis shows a way of being a Marxist intellectual in an inhospitable time. He also has never gone far from his roots in working-class southern California. With his second book, City of Quartz (Verso, 1990; Vintage, 1992...

... second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta (2008), was published by University of Georgia Press. Her first book, Circle (2005), was published by Southern Illinois University Press. Her poems have appeared in various publications. She lives in Southern California and works as a business writer...

... © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Contributors Creative Allison Berry is working on her MFA at Queens University of Char- lotte and is a lecturer for the Women’s Studies Program at Pittsburg State University and the Department of English and Philosophy at Missouri Southern State...

.... Visit her website: chelseadingman.com. James Dunlap is an Arkansas poet. He studied creative writing at University of Arkansas and Southern Illinois University at Carbon- dale. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Nashville Review, storySouth, Juked, Gulf Stream, and Copper Nickel...

... and an editor from Nigeria. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Tinderbox, Southern Humanities Review, Joyland, McNeese Review, and No Tokens, among others. He is a staff writer at Open Country. Teresa Pham-Carsillo is a Vietnamese American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating...

... have appeared in Southern Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry, and others. He is currently a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Houston and is a former nonfiction editor of Gulf Coast. Kelly Forsythe is currently living and writing...

... with fundamentalism's effects on her girlhood/womanhood and confronts its nationalist rhetoric and roots. Her work has appeared in Poetry , Bone Bouquet , Four Chambers , and Cartridge Lit , among others. Alexandria Juarez is a Chicanx lesbian writer, editor, and pop culture enthusiast from Southern...

... of central Texas, he lives in Manhattan and sojourns in Spain. Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), Mixology (Penguin USA, 2009), and The Big Smoke (Penguin USA), forthcoming in 2013. He teaches at Southern Illinois 150 the minnesota review University...

... Orleans East .” Planning Perspectives 23 , no. 2 : 197 – 219 . Sturgis Sue Kromm Chris . 2012 . “ Troubled Waters: Two Years after the BP Oil Disaster, a Struggling Gulf Coast Calls for National Leadership for Recovery .” Institute for Southern Studies , www.southernstudies.org...

... in with a slow hymn, a southern spiritual, I guessed, and then Rabbi Goldfine began a Chassidic chant, the kind generally accompanied by clarinet, and elderly Mrs. Booth— You can imagine how this must have sounded, an awful cacophony of five or six...

..., Autofocus, Juked Online, and other journals. Her corporeal form can usually be found in Chicago, but her recent dreams take place in Las Vegas. Will Dolben holds a master s in writing from the University of Southern California s Master of Professional Writing Program. He was a quarterfinalist...

..., a diversion from the hardships of everyday life. However, Dickstein argues for a continuity from Busby Berkeley’s musical extravaganzas and Cary Grant’s elegant impersonations to 62 the minnesota review Margaret Bourke-White’s stark photographs of destitute Southern...

... over Congress entirely because of the great Southern flip, the switch of Southern whites from overwhelming support for Democrats to overwhelming support for Republicans. (11-12) It’s not clear whether his theory leads Michaels to ignore this history, or his...

... desires. Cold coffee in the cup holder. His thumbprint’s bruise on her forearm. Her cut scars. Shake off the cold southern Wyoming— It’s all static. Nicotine, gasoline. Sunglasses rattling on the dash. minnesota review 81 (2013) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2331976  © 2013...