Issues

2013 Fall - The Fiction Issue 2014 Fall - Fiction: Kianny N. Antigua 2014 Spring - Ra(i)ces: Black Feminist Encounters 2015 Fall - Tierra/Home 2015 Spring - Girls in Their Bedrooms 2016 Fall - What We Love 2016 Spring - Atravesando 2017 Fall - Dirty Laundry 2017 Spring - Best of Kweli 2017 Summer - Kitchen Table Translation 2018 Fall - Edges 2018 Winter — (un)bound 2019 Summer - Inheritance 2020 October - The Ferrante Project 2020 Winter - The Poetry Issue 2021 HMB 2021 The Fiction Issue 2022 - September: Mothers Unearthed 2022 - The Tarot Issue 2023 - 10th Anniversary Double Issue 2023 - 10th Anniversary Issue Part I: Poetry & Nonfiction 2023 - 10th Anniversary Issue Part II: Fiction & Interviews 2024 - Bending 2024 Fall – Longing 2025 - Debut Fiction Flip Book
Nonproprietary Forms: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Angie Cruz in Conversation

In Fall 2023 I had the pleasure to speak to Diana Khoi Nguyen about her…

The Altar Server

The Sunday that thirteen-year-old Patrina heard the news about Alejandro, she was selling Kool-Aid icee…

Season’s Stranger

Summer’s unbothered streetlights, bitten legs.In this scene, it’s impolite to say mother, father; to saythis…

Sworn Virgin

When she looked down at her husband the downpour had become a drizzle. Oltana didn’t…

After Hours Elsewhere

I aim for bed, the bar is on the wayAnd you. I know that bright…

The Fifth-Grade Lesbian

I was christened a lesbian when I was ten years old. My two best friends…

Near Enough

Eka felt the pressure on Tuesday morning as if she’d swallowed something large and heavy.…

ALONE IN THE ROOM: A conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou

Elaine Hsieh Chou speaks to us about her funny and insightful debut novel Disorientation, as…

Bending | The Spring 2024 Issue

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.

Call My Mother

Sometimes I think I should call my mother less often because she’s going to die. She’s neither well nor unwell, but statistically speaking, I’m not wrong to worry.