While Watching Dragonflies on a City Bridge by: Danae Younge   Danae Younge is a 20-year-old, internationally published poet and an undergraduate at Occidental College. Read more of her work at www.danaeyounge.com

Self-Portrait After I Move To Kentucky by Beth Gilstrap photography by author Beth Gilstrap is the author of Deadheading & Other Stories, winner of the 2019 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, forthcoming October 5. She currently lives and writes in an old shotgun house in Louisville.

Deboning Song by Simon Nagel art by  Manda Comisari  Simon Nagel is a writer from California that now lives in London. He’s built a house, worked in an immigration law firm, and dabbled in printmaking. He’s finishing a novel and you will like it. Iluustration by artist Manda Comisari: www.mandacomisari.com