Nonfiction
We are thrilled to share our Spring 2024 issue, Bending, curated by Angie Cruz with drawings by Laylah Ali and writing by Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.
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.
Now that 2022 is coming to a close, Aster(ix) editors and contributors picked their favorite…
The unmasked lead their gaggles of unmasked children into Target. They walk out pushing red…
my head because if she’s going to eat with us she needs a nickname & she has to be our friend. one woman is the imp-
Every year, Aster(ix) nominates some of our best work in poetry, story, and nonfiction for…
Black women are supposed to have strong backbones but my Black back is jacked. Before…
<Trinity Sites> is on the outskirts of the town of Alamogordo, 190 kilometers southeast…
I’m going to go backwards through this particular part of my story because I hate…
ROGELIA JAMES IS NO PENDEJA by Catalina Bartlett “Dad let me stew in the holding…