Student Spot­light Adam Rodriquez-Dunn What do you write? Stories. At least, that’s what I need to tell myself in order to write anything—fiction, non­fic­tion, screen­play, even dabs of poetry. It all comes back to writing some sort of story in some sort of fashion in which…

POETRY By Shannon Marzel­la Brook­lyn, you were a hot mouth of wolf- hunger. Those nights, you ate me whole, ribs & every­thing, then spit out an acidic sunrise–orange blis­ters split and cack­ling, or maybe it was you pouring laugh­ter, filthy and bright. I forgot every­thing but the cross painted…

POETRY By Michael Rogner I have basil burst­ing bodies emerg­ing garlic sig­nal­ing the under­ground life has life left tomato vines strain­ing while the asshole jays poke holes in every fruit we all want the toma­toes inside us we harvest seeds in barrels feed them to clouds left…

POETRY By Tamara Kreutz When my hand finally braves the wilder­ness between my legs, I find its oasis gone —dry, a desert, and despite the distant thun­der­ing inside me, no rain will fall upon this dry earth. Our daugh­ter has sucked me to deple­tion, but you ask…

What do you write? I write mostly non­fic­tion, usually short essays.    Is there an author or artist who has most pro­found­ly influ­enced your work? I read Marc Hamer’s memoir How to Catch a Mole at the right time and the right place. The book felt like…

POETRY By Summer Hardinge When she writes, Ya need dogs for company, I almost feel as if I need to own one. As a child, I could tame any ram­bunc­tious pup, wild cat, or tena­cious pony. Some­thing like an empa­thet­ic nerve. The dogs in my neigh­bor­hood sense it,…

POETRY By Stephanie Kirby Each birth brings the body closer to death: a birthing body splits like rot, equal in burden to falling trees. Its weight: almost leaf­less.  There is nothing left except a tree in decline, housing life. This anatomy is not so different:…

What do you write? I write popular fiction, poetry, and analog game design. Is there an author or artist who has most pro­found­ly influ­enced your work? Authors who elevate BIPOC voices, such as Pam Pun­za­lan, a ttrpg game devel­op­er and author. Why did you choose Stonecoast for your MFA? Stonecoast helps me…

POETRY By Summer Hardinge tomor­row we will meet the horses/ after they have run the fields can­tered around us /nudged / this is not a war poem/ we use soft ropes/ drape shoul­ders and withers/ coax them in/ they will not halter for this/ is not a…

What do you write? If I don’t reg­u­lar­ly put pen to paper−or fingers to keys−all the frag­ments of stories and ideas would come spilling out on unsus­pect­ing passers­by.  In all seri­ous­ness, I have written in some way, shape, or form since I was very young. I…