Editorial Statement

Dear Readers,

In 2004, when the literary journal known as Decomposition Magazine first went live, it was an experiment in online publication. Led by Mike Smith, it was one of the first small-scale, independent online journals, and set the tone for other online journals that followed.

In 2007, when Jason Jordan took over editorial duties, Decomposition Magazine transformed into decomP magazinE, and again became a place of experiments. Jason invited more flash fiction, and encouraged submitters to accompany their pieces with audio readings and other multi-media works. This was when I joined the journals’ ranks as a Prose Editor in 2013, and pushed the journal to include more quirky and complex artwork by marginalized artists.

In 2020, the journal went through another shift. After the difficult (and unexpected) halting of the magazine in January, I asked four students at the Social Justice Institute where I work (Lutze Segu, David Ng, Jess Lau, and Diana Kamau) to help transform the journal from decomP magazinE to decomp journal. As we wrote in our collective mission statement, we desired to remake decomp into a journal that can “explore what it means to be marginalized within ‘the creative’” in ways that “hold room for both rage and joy.”

As with previous transformations of the journal, this one is also an experiment.

decomp journal is today the literary in-house journal of the University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute, and its creative decisions are led entirely by teams of the Institute’s students. As a fiction author and literary scholar myself, I have written about how that the biggest problem that bipoc and other marginalized writers/artists face is that there are too few of us in editing roles. As many popular magazines have been pointing out since at least 2015, bipoc editors are vastly marginalized and often relegated to the lowest rungs of the publication ladder. The very first gatekeepers marginalized writers/artists will face are the white and the privileged editors whose impulse has been to tokenize and simplify the artists’ work for an audience that reflects the editor’s own communities, not the artist’s. We are hoping that decomp journal can help create spaces for works that explore the uncomfortable realities, complicated affinities, and unmapped radiances of being marginalized, racialized, and othered.

So, welcome to our experimental first issue. Thanks to the tireless work of our seventeen student editors, we have curated fiction, media/art, poetry, and non-fiction pieces that we hope reveal as much about our current difficulties as they do entice us with joy and imagination to energize us for our collective futures. This issue, as every issue from hereon, is accompanied by a multimedia e-zine curated by a GRSJ student or group. Zine #1 is titled “Twin Futures: Black Resistance and Indigenous Sovereignty,” and is guest edited by Lutze Segu.

Welcome to our experiment, and thank you so much to our readers and supporters,

Christopher B. Patterson (aka Kawika Guillermo)

Managing Editor of decomp journal

 e-zine #1 Editorial Message

For the past three years, I have been living and moving across North American borders as an international doctoral student at The University of British Columbia. As a Black queer femme from the South who is also Haitian-American, moving between the fictitious borders of these two nation-states reconstituted my being and gave me a deeper understanding of anti-Blackness, a new somatic orientation to my Blackness, and a new articulation of Black liberation. Studying on the unceded lands of Squamish and the Coast Salish Peoples further politicized me. It is on these beautiful Vancouver lands that I paused long enough to take seriously that land is pedagogy and that it is supposed to inform our methodologies of liberation. As my sociopolitical values and ethics started to take new shape, I was noticing something very pernicious that would happen in activist spaces on both sides of the border. Rarely was anti-Blackness and indigenous sovereignty seen as two liberation struggles that were mutually tied. Many people saw these futures as distinct and not interdependent. Indigenous dispossession + anti-Blackness = North America. Decolonization is not the same as social justice claims, but what the summer of racial reckonings revealed--in calling for the defunding of the police and the abolition of the carceral state--is that abolition is the road that gets us to decolonization. As a Black feminist practitioner whose Black feminism is animated by a woman of color feminism and Native feminism, I have come to the only realization that makes sense: there is no Black liberation without the end of indigenous dispossession and there is no Indigenous sovereignty without the abolishing of anti-Blackness.

This is why this Zine is called Twin Futures: Black Resistance and Indigenous Sovereignty. The writers, poets, and critical creatives who are featured in this Zine are asking us to think about futurity in new ways and what is needed to project ourselves into new futures that are built on the grounds of anti-Blackness and Indigenous dispossession. It is my hope that we who believe in social justice and decolonization and anti-racist futures will resist the temptation of binary thinking and allyship. May the pieces in this Zine help guide your way through this somatic undoing.

There is no future without Black, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous people.

Until we all get free,

Lutze B. Segu

Main Issue Contributors

Brendan Walsh
has lived and taught in South Korea, Laos, and South Florida. His work appears in Rattle, Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, American Literary Review, and other journals. He is the winner of America Magazine’s 2020 Foley Poetry Prize, and the author of five books, including ‘Go’ (Aldrich Press), ‘Buddha vs. Bonobo’ (Sutra Press), and ‘fort lauderdale’ (Grey Book Press). He’s online at www.brendanwalshpoetry.com.

Beaumont Sugar
is an essayist, poet, and painter living in Anchorage, AK with Penelope and Waffle, their wife and cat. More of their written work can be found in HASH Journal, The Whorticulturalist, Ruminate Magazine, GASHER Journal, AnchoragePRESS, and their visual art is on instagram @beaumontsugar, and at Tidal Artist Haven.

Danny Robb
After a successful career as a professional engineer and Air Force Reserve colonel, Danny graduated from retirement to become a student of the literary arts. He recently earned a Certificate in Fiction Writing from UCLA, a first step in the lifetime of hard work needed to achieve his goal of becoming a good writer. His published non-fiction stories and blog can be found at his website, aptly named from his nom de guerre, www.thenakedpeacock.com. Danny’s most remarkable achievement is winning the heart of a beautiful and classy girl. Mary and he reside in Whidbey Island, Washington with their spoiled, ornery dog, Ichiro.

Ron Riekki
Ron Riekki’s books include I have been warned not to write about this (Main Street Rag), Niiji (Cyberwit, co-written with Sally Brunk), My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot ‘n’ Waddle), and U.P. (Ghost Road Press). Riekki co-edited Undocumented (Michigan State University Press) and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead (McFarland), and edited The Many Lives of It (McFarland), And Here (MSU Press), Here (MSU Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book). He wrote the films America and Thank You for Your Teeth! (mc2 film, both shot in Romania).

Sara Quenzer
graduated from Washington State University (May 2020) with degrees in creative writing and journalism. Currently, she is an associate writer for Hallmark Cards. Her submission is based on her experience as a college renter and as a survivor of a sexually and emotionally abusive relationship. She originally wrote it for a class, and it was an imitation assignment. She chose to imitate Jamil Jon Kochai’s ‘Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain) which is why there are 80 million run-on sentences and it’s written in second person (he’s a goddamn genius). Her professor said it still sounded like her, so she’s hoping it reads more like she was inspired than like she was imitating!

twitter: @ghostmalooone || instagram: ghostmalooone

Sujash Purna
Bangladeshi-born Sujash Purna is a graduate student at Missouri State University. A poet based in Springfield, Missouri, he serves as an assistant poetry editor to the Moon City Review. His poetry appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Kansas City Voices, Poetry Salzburg Review, English Journal, Stonecoast Review, Red Earth Review, Emrys Journal, Prairie Winds, Gyroscope Review, and others. His chapbook collection “Epidemic of Nostalgia” is coming out soon from Finishing Line Press. He is on Twitter: @Purnathepoet and Instagram: Sujash17.

Anna Oberg
is a professional photographer based in Estes Park, Colorado. When she’s not arranging family portraits with the perfect view of Long’s Peak as backdrop, she focuses on writing tiny memories and small stories. She has been published in Cleaver Magazine, Burningword Literary Journal, Causeway Lit, The Maine Review, Wanderlust: A Travel Journal, and HerStry blog.

Chelsie Nunn
is an LGBTQIA+ painter and educator working in Knoxville, TN. My artwork and writing are collages that conceptually relate to the general working class, relationship narratives, and my queer Appalachian experience. My paintings have recently been exhibited at Walter’s State Community College, Pellissippi State Community College, and the UT Downtown Gallery. My writing most recently appeared in The Quaranzine (Fearsome Critters 2020). Thank you for reading.IG: @chelsienunnm || Facebook: Chelsie Blair Nunn

Kaye Nash
is a writer and teacher from Vancouver Island. She has had poems published in many journals including Mookychick, Lunate, and Anti-Heroin Chic, as well as in anthology projects from The Bangor, Teen Belle and Castabout Lit. She is a regular contributor at Headline Poetry and Press. She can be reached at stapletonknash@gmail.com and on Twitter at @knashingmyteeth, or on her website, www.kayenash.wordpress.com.

Feixue Mei
is an interdisciplinary artist based in Richmond, Virginia and Maryville, Missouri. She is fascinated by mass media and internet culture. Her work explores diverse media such as publications, videos, performances, illustrations, comics and installations, and examines how they may be used to address such context as globalization, cultural manipulation, language adaptation, intimate relation, as well as fluid identity. She is also an art educator at Northwest Missouri State University. She earned an MFA in Design with a concentration in visual communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University, and a BFA in Visual Communications from Central China Normal University.

Brandon Marlon
is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. in Drama & English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry was awarded the Harry Hoyt Lacey Prize in Poetry (Fall 2015), and his writing has been published in 300+ publications in 32 countries. www.brandonmarlon.com

Seth Leeper
is a queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coastal Shelf, otoliths, Gertrude Press, Noisemaker Magazine, Xenith Magazine, Awosting Alchemy, and Mythic Circle. He holds an M.A. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY, with his cat, Rocket.

Sam LaBelle
is a Cape Cod raised, queer, artist and writer. His writing has been published in The Main Sheet and The Cape Cod Poetry Review. His artwork has been displayed at The Higgins Gallery and The Provincetown Art Association Museum. He currently lives in Fairhaven and can often be found in the woods, searching for mushrooms.
Instagram: @rainbowunicorndreamkitty Twitter: LaBelleSam

Belle (Bom) Kim
is a cartoonist and PhD candidate in English literature at University of Washington. Her comics are deeply informed by her lived experiences of navigating economic and visa insecurities, systemic racism, and mental health concerns as a non-citizen woman of color. In her work, she seeks to interrogate how marginalized communities have been displaced, racialized, and instrumentalized, as well as how they have resisted such practices in creative and powerful ways. Ultimately, her comics attempt to engage with the hidden potentialities of the everyday and mundane, while also reminding us that writing is always a deeply political act. Her comics are forthcoming in Exposition Review and Pangyrus, and can be found at bunboti.com.

KS Keeney
is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at George Mason University. She also received an MA in Film Studies from Ohio University. She has been previously published in Quaker, Tishman Review, and Roanoake Review, among others. Currently, she’s not doing all that much except reading, sleeping, and occasionally hiking.

Sam Kasper
was born in Canada, is of Lebanese heritage, works in USA as an orthopedic surgeon, and writes part-time, preferring topics of nature, existentialism, social justice, deep raw genuine emotion, heritage, memory... He’s had over 20 publications so far of his poetry (Vallum, Tiny Seed, Rigorous, Iron Horse etc), prose (Burnt Pine, Snapdragon etc), plus scientific publications. Facebook page reading poetry & prose: @MightySamster

Lori Horvitz
Lori Horvitz’ personal essays have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Epiphany, The Laurel Review, Hobart, Chattahoochee Review, The Guardian, and Hotel Amerika and North Dakota Quarterly. She has been awarded writer-in-residence fellowships from Yaddo, Cottages at Hedgebrook, VCCA, Ragdale, Blue Mountain Center and Brush Creek. Professor of English at UNC Asheville, Horvitz is the author of the memoir-essay collection, The Girls of Usually (Truman State UP).

Bari Lynn Hein
Bari Lynn Hein’s stories are published or forthcoming in The Saturday Evening Post, Mslexia, Vestal Review, Mud Season Review, Adelaide, Verdad, The Ilanot Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Sensitive Skin Magazine and elsewhere. Her prose has been awarded finalist placement in many national and international writing competitions, among them The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest and the OWT Fiction Prize. Her debut novel is on submission. Learn more at barilynnhein.com.

Michael Harper
is a teacher and writer living in Vienna. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of Vienna. His work has appeared most recently in the Manzano Mountain Review and Litro Magazine.

Robert René Galván
born in San Antonio, resides in New York City where he works as a professional musician and poet. His last collection of poems is entitled, Meteors, published by Lux Nova Press. His poetry was recently featured in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Azahares Literary Magazine, Gyroscope, Hawaii Review, Hispanic Culture Review, Newtown Review, Panoply, Prachya Review, Sequestrum, Shoreline of Infinity, Somos en Escrito, Stillwater Review, West Texas Literary Review, and the Winter 2018 issue of UU World. He is a Shortlist Winner Nominee in the 2018 Adelaide Literary Award for Best Poem. Recently, his poems are featured in Puro ChicanX Writers of the 21st Century and in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. His forthcoming books of poetry are Undesirable: Race and Remembrance, Somos en Escrito Foundation Press, and The Shadow of Time, Adelaide Books.

William Fargason
is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara (University of Iowa Press, April 2020), and the winner of the Iowa Poetry Award. His poetry has appeared in The Threepenny Review, New England Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and a PhD in poetry from Florida State University. He lives with himself in Tallahassee, Florida, where he serves as the poetry editor at Split Lip Magazine.

C. Christine Fair
is a professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program within the School of Foreign Service. She studies political and military events of South Asia and travels extensively throughout Asia and the Middle East. Her books include In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (OUP 2019); Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (OUP, 2014); and Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States (Globe Pequot, 2008). Her forthcoming book is Lines of Control: Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s Militant Piety,with Saifina Ustad (Oxford University Press, 2020). She has published creative pieces in The Bark, The Dime Show Review, Furious Gazelle, Hyptertext, Lunch Ticket, Clementine Unbound, Awakenings, Fifty Word Stories, The Drabble, Sandy River Review, Sonder Midwest, Black Horse Magazine, Barzakh Magazine, Bluntly Magazine, Badlands Literary Journal, among others. Her visual poetry has appeared in pulpMAG, The Indianapolis Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, The New Southern Fugitives and forthcoming pieces in Existere Journal of Arts & Literature PCC Inscape Magazine. She causes trouble in multiple languages.
Twitter: @CChristineFair || Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/c.christine.fair || Tumblr: tumblr.com/blog/chrissyhassomethingtosay

Michael Emeka
is a writer, a teacher and lover of nature. His works have appeared in Volney Road Review, Potato Soup Journal, Eboquills and Adelaide Literary Magazine. A believer in the saying that the world is the writer’s workshop and an avid reader, he lives in Lagos, Nigeria and can be found on Twitter @michael64639151.

Mike Dillon
lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry and three books of haiku. Several of his haiku were included in “Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years,” from W.W. Norton (2013). His most recent book, “Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor,” was published by Unsolicited Press in April 2019. A chapbook, “The Return,” is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2021.

Christopher DeWan
is author of HOOPTY TIME MACHINES: fairy tales for grown ups, a collection of domestic fabulism from Atticus Books. He has created television projects with AwesomenessTV/Viacom, the Chernin Group, and Electric Entertainment, published more than fifty stories in journals including Hobart, Passages North, wigleaf, and X-ray, is featured in Best Small Fictions, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Learn more at http://christopherdewan.com.

Liz DeGregorio
(she/her/hers) is a writer and editor living in New York City. Her poems have appeared in Crack the Spine’s anthology “Neighbors,” Beyond Words Literary Magazine, “The Heartbreak Project” anthology, Gravitas, The Tulane Review, From Whispers to Roars, Riva Collective’s Chunk Lit and In Parentheses. Three of her poems were included in Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s anthology “SMITTEN,” which was a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist. Her flash fiction has appeared in *82 Review, Ruminate Magazine and Two Sisters, and she’s had fiction published in BUST Magazine.

Marilee Dahlman
Marilee grew up in the Midwest and currently lives in Washington, DC. Her other stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Cleaver, The Bitter Oleander, The Saturday Evening Post, Timeworn Literary Fiction and elsewhere.

Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner
is a lifelong New Yorker and educator who lives with her husband, daughter, and two crazy shelter cats. She finds writing inspiration from almost every subway ride, bodega breakfast run, and skyline sunset in her beloved city.

Joelle Byars
is a Masters student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pursuing her degree in Creative Writing. After finishing her Bachelors degree in English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, she began delving deeper into the possibilities of prose fiction. Her work can also be seen in Prometheus Dreaming and soon The William and Mary Review. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

K. Johnson Bowles
has been featured in 80+ exhibitions and 60+ publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Houston Center for Photography, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA from Ohio University and BFA from Boston University.www.kjohnsonbowlesart.com || Instagram: kjohnsonbowles1 || twitter: @BowlesJohnson

Carl Boon
is the author of the full-length collection Places & Names: Poems (The Nasiona Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Posit, and The Maine Review. He received his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American Literature from Ohio University in 2007, and currently lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American culture and literature at Dokuz Eylül University.

Christopher S. Bell
is a writer and musician. His fiction has recently appeared in The Fiction Pool, Spillwords, Midway Journal and Nymphs among others.

N.T. Arévalo
N.T. Arévalo’s stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Necessary Fiction, The Boiler Journal, Hayden Ferry’s Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Regarding Arts & Letters, Rose & Thorn Journal, Waterhouse Review, Eunoia Review, The Vitni Review, and Eclectica, and received Honorable Mention in the 2014 Bevel Summers Prize Contest. Learn more at arevalossketches.com.

Evan Anders
brews coffee for mass consumption in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, California Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and Chicago Quarterly Review. He is a retired stay-at-home dad who thinks Bob Dylan was best in the eighties.

Cheryl Aguirre
is a poet based in Austin, Texas. Their work focuses on queer and biracial experiences in a red state. You can find their previous work in Ghost City Press and The Whorticulturalist. You can follow them at @drowsy_orchid on Instagram, or @wheat_mistress on Twitter.

 zine #1 Contributors

 C.J. Anderson-Wu
is a writer, translator and publisher of Taiwanese literature.

Jihan Thomas
Is a visual fine artist and arts educator. She has been teaching in the Philadelphia community for over 15 years. Her work is inspired by the people and their patterns of life. She journeys through her expressions from the lens of a black women in a Black body. Themes in her artwork consist of race, joy, history, rebellion, Afrofuturism, strength, pain, power, motherhood, love and the relationships of womanhood through the Black womans anatomy. Instagram: @mindsmine3

Salizan Takisvilainan
is an indigenous Bunun writer from Taiwan. In addition to his literary career, he is a mountain guide for backpackers hiking in his ancestors’ traditional territory. Salizan Takisvilainan is the recipient of many literature awards, among them the 2016 Gold Prize of Taiwan Literature Award was the most eminent honor in Taiwanese literature society. In 2020, his book of prose “Carrying Mountains with their Tumpline - the Story of Bunun Mountain Guides, Porters, and Forest Patrols” was shortlisted by the Taiwan Literature Award.

Edward Michael Supranowicz
is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet.

Samantha Steiner
,MFA (she/her/hers) is a Fulbright Scholar and two-time Best of the Net nominee. Her work is published or forthcoming in Sou’wester, the Apple Valley Review, Beyond Words, and the print anthology Coffin Bell 2.2. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @ Steiner_Reads.

Ernst Perdriel
is of African descent and was born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) in 1974. He is a multi-field artist (visual art, photography, writing - French), designer and horticulturist.

His life mission: To transmit the passion of the cultural and environmental heritage

through arts, lifestyle and sharing of knowledge. He participates in solo and group exhibitions in visual arts since 1995. Perdriel has contributed to numerous publications since 1992 as a writer, illustrator, artist, photographer and in self-publishing. His works have appeared in Sunspot Literary Journal, Seisma Magazine, Photo Solution Magazine, Into the Void, The Healing Muse, Iris Literary Journal, 3Elements Literary Review, Hey, I’m Alive Magazine and others.

Max Kerwien
is a poet and comedian. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. In 2016, he won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize. In 2018, he published his first collection of poetry, “Poems to Ruin Dinner with.” Instagram: @ kerwien

Patty Nicole Johnson
is a Black and Puerto Rican science fiction writer. In her Chicago bungalow, she weaponizes time travel, holograms, multiverses and more to envision a more equitable society. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in New American Legends, On the Seawall, Midnight & Indigo, Black Sci-Fi Gothic Fantasy Anthology and Constelación. She primarily writes flash fiction and short stories, yet she’s revising her debut novel, The Rhythm of Reveries. She was also a moderator and panelist for the FIYAHCON 2020 Virtual Conference for BIPOC+ In Speculative Fiction. Read her work at pattynjohnson.com, or find her on Twitter & Instagram at @pattynjohnson.

Rashida James-Saadiya
is a writer and cultural educator who uses African-futurism to explore migration, identity, the transmission of spirituality, and cultural memory amongst Black women. Her work has appeared in al-Qalam, Hand to Hand Poets Respond to Race, Voyages Africana Journal, and Kaleidoscope Contemporary Muslim Voices. She has many dreams and is doing her best to write, speak, see, and touch them all.
FB: Rashida James-Saadiya IG: solsalaam Twitter: @RSaadiy

Richard Dinges, Jr.
Lives and works by a pond among trees and grassland, along with his wife, one dog, three cats, and seven chickens. Pennsylvania English, Stickman Review, North Dakota Review, Talking River Review, and William and Mary Review most recently accepted his poems for their publications.

Nancy Cook
U.S.-based writer Nancy Cook lives 475 kilometers from the Canadian border. She serves as flash fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press and also runs “The Witness Project,” a program of free community writing workshops in Minneapolis intended to enable creative work by underrepresented voices. Some of her newest work can be found in The London Reader, Channel Magazine, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.

Jonathan Chan
is a recent graduate in English from Cambridge University. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore where he is presently based. He is interested in questions of faith, identity, and creative expression. He has recently been moved by the writing of John Donne, Robert Macfarlane, and Cathy Park Hong. You can find more of his work at jonbcy.wordpress.com.

Bracy Appeikumoh
is a Sarah Lawrence College Creative Writing (Speculative Fiction) MFA candidate who writes to imagine a world wholly different from our own. She explores issues such as sexuality, gaze theory, the subversive effects of fandom culture, and internet culture. Also a nerd. Find her on Twitter @bybracy. Humor her by visiting her website appeikumoh.carrd.co. You'll get a cookie.