Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read
Photo of Crystal AC Salas

Crystal AC Salas

Crystal AC Salas is the author of the bilingual poetry chapbook Grief Logic, which was cowinner of the inaugural Alta California Prize from Gunpowder Press (2022). She has work in Alta Journal, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Northwest Review, and other publications. She holds an MFA from University of California, Riverside and is the recipient of a 2021–22 California Arts Council Established Individual Artist Fellowship.

Poetry

Summer 2025

Migration of a Stroke

By Crystal AC Salas

I.Today was a day when hairbrush was for teeth& face muscles scattered like marbles& all words bottleneckedmashed sopa de letras at the bottom of the dirty sinkthe dishes waiting from […]

Poetry

Summer 2025

Sequoias

By Crystal AC Salas

The way up:orange conesalert to the damageevery curve of roadcurdling in the waterdropping off in chunks.This is a mountain in distress.Sibling fires begat thewounded groves of fir and pinetoothpicked ghosts […]