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Carter Sickels

Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press, 2021) and The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). His writing appears in various outlets, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, BuzzFeed, Guernica, and Joyland. Sickels is an assistant professor of creative writing at North Carolina State University.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

Forage

By Carter Sickels

The Kenyon Review · “Forage” by Carter Sickels Not long after my grandfather died, my mother told me she had a dream about him. He was sitting on the edge […]