Genta Nishku was raised in Tirana and lives in New York City. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Washington Square Review, Barzakh, Warscapes, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. She is completing a PhD in comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Find her at gentanishku.com.
July/Aug 2022
Understory
For my father That July, the neighborhood was covered in plums. They dropped everywhere, their purple-burgundy insides dotting the side streets. They broke from the impact of hitting the ground […]