Catalina Bartlett

Catalina Bartlett

Catalina Bartlett is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. Her writing has appeared in Aster(ix): A Journal of Art, Criticism, and Literature, and A Walk Along the River: A Literary Anthology from the Upper Rio Grande. She has been awarded an ART OMI Ledig House Fellowship and an artist residency at Prairie Center for the Arts. Currently, she lives in Lansing, Michigan where she is at work on a short story collection that draws on her matrilineal family history and early life along the southern Colorado-northern New Mexico corridor.

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Fire by Tiago Cabral
Snap this Photo of Two Good Men

After the chisme made the rounds and Tío had split the scene, I’d started over. Took any job I could get, hauling manure, laying sod at the golf course, planting potatoes, until I found my current employer. People had begun to respect me. My hand trembled as I turned up the heat beneath the skillet, praying that the crackle and hiss of frying eggs might mask the sound of his voice, intimate like the guitar in my favorite Roberto Griego song Un Pobre No Más. I willed my uncle to leave our casita, even knowing it would hurt Ma to see him go. 

Rogelia James Is No Pendeja

Dad let me stew in the holding cell for eight hours. By then, the vomit…