Last spring, Pleiades published “Jordan,” a short story about trauma and transcendence, about desire, and deliverance, and the writer Brandon Allen's own reckoning with the fundamentalist religion that raised him. The story begins eerily with the main character, a...
Novelist Patrick deWitt feels like an anomaly. At a time when writers are expected to maintain a constant public presence, to explain their work, promote themselves, and remain perpetually available, the relative lack of access to one of our most celebrated writers...
Kristen Millares Young went looking for God and found a woman, found a goddess, found herself. She went looking for new stories about girlhood, motherhood, womanhood and found an origin story, her own but also that very first story of that very first woman. No, a...
I first met Mansi Dahal in a graduate class dedicated to writing the body. It was a fitting introduction — while our work varies in topic, theme, and form, we share a habit of writing about sensory intimacies, small tactile details that reverberate across the psyche....
When I first sat down to write about heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s fifth poetry collection Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric, I didn’t know where to begin — not because this collection fails to give its readers an entry point into the text, but because...
Although short stories are often sites of some of the most intellectual and formal experimentations in literature, their authors must still possess the skills of more conventional storytellers. The short story is a fickle form, challenging our ideas about narrative,...