We are thrilled to share the second part of our tenth anniversary double issue, highlighting some our best short fiction and interviews.
Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue.
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (August 1, 2023, Ecco Press) ““Family Lore is a deeply Dominican…
The Tarot Issue features Chancletazo for Your Soul by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, and is now available…
Now that 2022 is coming to a close, Aster(ix) editors and contributors picked their favorite…
We are thrilled to share our September 2022 issue, Mothers Unearthed, co-Edited by Emily Raboteau…
As a woman of color in the academy, I do more labor than my white colleagues. But then I have guilt that my mother is laboring more than me. And I ask myself, “Was it worth it? Is it worth it?” In the fight, you have to remember to rest.
by Lydia Flores there is a languagethe tongue cannotkiss the teeth to speakbut there is…
Featuring 6 micro-fictions and 5 poems inspired Cecilia Vicuña’s 1972 “Amaranta” which was “lost and reborn” when found in 2021. The Chilean artist-poet-activist writes simply as an introduction to her work, “My work dwells in the not yet, the future potential of the unformed, where sound, weaving, and language interact to create new meanings.”