N O N F I C T I O N
Weaning Dove
“When the Arkansas sun stopped thieving layers of bark and paint and soft child skin, when it was cool enough for creatures to flutter and roost under the layers of wet fall leaves, my mother would make Avgolemono.”
elise cheesman
25 States in 25 Days
“When I think back to this day, I cannot clear away the misty sheen of youth that tints my view, brightens the sun and the sky and hues of floaties and pool toys and waterslides.”
saba jana-worku
Hong Kong Harbour
“I lay there on the sun-baked pavement, chest heaving, staring up at the sky,
wondering how something so simple, chasing each other around the courtyard, could
leave me so spent.”
emmy chen