Excited to see past contributor Karen Kao in Kenyon Review. We featured a short story by her last spring (Issue 22); #fiction, #nonfiction, she does it all!

Oh! Hey! My lyric essay "Inventory" is in this issue! Thank you J for working your magic on this piece. So proud to appear alongside all these greats.

So excited to have this baby in my hands. Welcome Kenyon Review to Amsterdam!

"In the half-light of a Californian winter, the sky has no color and the horizon goes flat. Smog burns the throat. Better to keep the windows closed so that the car can fill with a man’s cologne." From "Fish Tales" by Karen Kao: kenyonreview.org/journal/winter…

"One sneaker clings to the retaining wall. The other one drops until I am a flamingo standing on one bloody leg. My first scar is shaped like a fish. Silver, striated, swimming." From "Fish Tales" by Karen Kao: kenyonreview.org/piece/fish-tal…

"The scales of my mother and her mother shimmer in the fluorescent light of Lucky supermarket, their shopping cart a cornucopia of the four food groups no one eats in the motherland." From "Fish Tales" by Karen Kao: kenyonreview.org/piece/fish-tal…

"We hope these object lessons will remind [readers] how varied the [short story] form can be, how vital it remains, and how much pleasure it can give. Words by Loren and Sadie Stein. My review here bit.ly/3KiNPvG

"I remember things in retinal flashes. [...] It's all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common." Words by Lidia Yuknavitch. My review here bit.ly/43dSTsM

Join me in conversation with Lola Shoneyin, Nigerian author and poet, in Amsterdam. Come talk craft and stay for cocktails? Register here: tiwc.eu/shoneyin

"When my mother and her mother are not in the motherland, their mouths are always hungry. They gape like gar in a stream of fish burgers, tartar sauce, and soggy french fries. Their eyes never blink." From "Fish Tales" by Karen Kao: kenyonreview.org/piece/fish-tal…

"Let me say what sorcery is not: it is not divine power [...]. It must be made and worked, planned and searched out, dug up, dried, chopped and ground, cooked, spoken over and sung." Words by Madeline Miller. My review here bit.ly/3UyuEkY

"The angel baby doesn't look like a ghost. She doesn't float and she isn't pale and she doesn't wear a white dress. She's half rotted away, and she doesn't talk." Words by Mariana Enriquez. My review here: bit.ly/3GYtGZy

Oh, wow, @sumitamukherji this is so cool!

Thanks for the love Charlotte Hamrick

"Polygamy is for gold-diggers and bush-dwellers, not educated children brought up in a good Christian home." Words by Lola Shoneyin. My review here bit.ly/3BE1YOX

Thank you for reading Dr. Camille U. Adams 🇹🇹 !

New words out in the world. Thank you Hinterland Magazine !

Amazing news. Thank you @jennymolberg and J for this act of faith. Good luck to all the nominees!

How awesome is this? Thank you Ninth Letter !

Dipped a toe in the Substack sea with a piece on scary fish, lyric essay, and the benefits of swimming upside down. swimmingupsidedown.substack.com/p/anglerfish