October 17, 2024
By Oli Peters
You. Rosa Alcalà. Coffee House Press, 2024. $17.95
Recently, a father told me of his daughter's first catcall. She was confused. How could her body, walking down the street, listening to music, betray her like that? How could it elicit commentary so sharp that it pierced through her headphones? No noise-canceling device is strong enough to protect people from the publicity of their body in a world that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
