COVER
Sprinkler by Deanna Dikeman

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Noreen Tomassi

PUBLISHER
Willard Cook

ASSISTANT EDITOR
Emma Schneider

WEB EDITOR
Jose Diego Medina


PROSE EDITOR
Chris Leslie-Hynan

CONTRIBUTING FEATURES EDITOR
Jamie Kahn

MANAGING EDITOR
Miracle Jones

COVER DESIGN
Joe Lops and Magdalena Levandoski


POETRY


Claire Scott
Banshees, Jesus, Hyenas, Sharks but No Wine in Sight
Post-Accident Fallout

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
For Forests
Winter

Amanda Stopa Goldstein
Feast of Saint Francis: Blessing of the Animals

Nikki Ummel
Portrait of St. Paul with Martini Olives
To the Brazilian Kids Who Zoom Bombed My First Book Launch
On the Six-Month Anniversary of My Ex’s Death, I Meet His Baby Mama
First Gay Crush (Ode to Alex Kelly from The O.C.)

Nancy Keating
From “The Ice Land”

Lindsey Marie Siferd
on touching an orange without gloves on
paris syndrome

Christine Degenaars
Readying
Mother’s Dilemma
The Dive Pool
Piano

Thea Matthews
Dez
Cornhusker
As the Family’s Landlord
Back Alley Justice

Lindsay Lusby
The Quantum Mechanics of Missing Girls
Self-Portrait as Night Swimming
Self-Portrait as Recurring Dream

2023 EPIPHANY AWARDS

FRESH VOICES FELLOWSHIP

Dawn Angelicca Barcelona (Winner)
Dear Violet
Bilateral Stimulation

Stephanie Niu (Finalist)
He Sleeps
The Ocean in Miniature
Measuring Fever

Lindsay Ferguson
Before We Knew It Was the End of the World


BREAKOUT PRIZE WINNERS

Tzu Hsien Huang (Fiction)
Haven


Chelsea Dingman (Poetry)
Constant Shame Leads to an Absence of Feeling, Researchers Say

ART


Shan Kelley
From Here
From There


Deanna Dikeman
Sprinklers, Birdbaths, and Puddles

 

SELECTIONS FROM THE ISSUE AVAILABLE AT EPIPHANY ONLINE:

 

FICTION


Elizabeth Gaffney
How Not to Run Away from Monsters

Jai Chakrabarti
The House of Everything

Ramón Isao
The Last Tree on Earth

Tracy Winn
House in the Field, River in the House

Will Willoughby
Splice

Sarah Starr Murphy
The Heretic’s Tale

Paige Kaptuch
San Rafael Swell

Dawn Elardo
Bodega Girls

NONFICTION

Afton Montgomery
Ghosts, Ghosting, Filaments of Light: A Study

Gabriel Mae
Selvedge

IN RESPONSE: THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA

Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
Muse

Sugar Vendil
“Inside is the Pain” from BAS

INTERVIEWS

Ethan Nosowsky, interviewed by Noreen Tomassi
On Publishing

Tom Piazza, interviewed by David Gates
On Writing

IN TRANSLATION: FROM THE PORTUGUESE

Ana Luisa Amaral, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Que sera, sera: worlds later
Prayer in the Mediterranean
About the heart and about beauty, or perspectives
The table

Alvaro Fausto Taruma, translated by Grant Schutzman
Untitled
Obituary

Jarid Arraes, translated by Eruna Dantas Lobato and Julia Sanches
Five Thousand Liters