AN INTERVIEW WITH SERGIO TRONCOSO

September 09, 2024

Rey M. Rodríguez An Interview with Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso was born to Mexican immigrants in the Ysleta neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. The family lived in a colonia near the border in a house that Troncoso's parents built, without electricity or running water for their first two years in Ysleta. He is a Chicano writer, and more broadly a U.S. writer, who deserves to be widely read and studied. He attended ...

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: “Stardust & Destiny” by Vandana Khanna + Bonus Interview

September 03, 2024

Vandana Khanna Stardust & Destiny Meena wakes with a dry mouth and swirls of blue-black marks on the back of her hand—a fake bruise indicating every club or bar that she’d been to over the weekend. The previous nights’ restless revelry resulting in a cluster of them blooming on her skin like a garden. From dimly lit Karaoke bars with mechanical bulls to slick rooftop pools overlooking the glittering eyes of ...

Congratulations to Josh Emmons, Winner of the Kinder/Crump Award!

July 02, 2024

Pleiades congratulates Josh Emmons, winner of this year’s Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction, judged by Anjanette Delgado. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning story, “There Is a Field, I’ll Meet You There,” will be published in the Fall 2024 issue of Pleiades. Josh Emmons has published two novels and a story collection, plus work in magazines and book anthologies. He lives in ...

REVIEW OF “LONG EXPOSURE”

May 28, 2024

By Loisa Fenichell Long Exposure. Julia Anna Morrison. Moon City Press, 2023. $14.95 Grief and the Moon: A Review of Julia Anna Morrison’s Long Exposure  “The moon is the only model I have for motherhood,” Julia Anna Morrison writes in her award-winning debut poetry collection Long Exposure, in which Morrison adopts an older theme—the moon as a matrilineal symbol—and explores it through poems that are at ...