Ashley Inguanta is a writer, art photographer, installation artist, and holistic educator. Her newest collection of poems, The Island, The Mountain, & The Nightblooming Field, honors a human connection with the natural world.
When you leave this life, this fast and bright
existence in the Mojave, for the swamplands
of home, you can’t help but wonder if the Florida
alligators will eat you alive.
The moon painted a picture of me and she called it “hay.” The picture is my hair, sliced off from the ears down, tied with rope and slapped onto a clean, metal table.
Heather Aimee O'Neill is the Assistant Director of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at Hunter College. Her work has been published in several literary journals, including Many Mountains Moving and The Truth About The Fact: An International Journal of Literary Non-Fiction.
Molly Gaudry discusses the birth of The Lit Pub—a publicity company, online bookstore, and an e-space for readers to gather—and explores luck and death in her most recent work, Portrait of a Modern Family.