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 ...
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 ...
