In This Issue
2022 Patricia Grodd Prize for Young Writers
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Contributors’ Notes
Sophie Bernik is a creative writing major at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan. Her work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Red Wheelbarrow, Fledge, and Identity Theory. When not writing, Bernik enjoys hiking and swimming.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press, 2019), longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and How Narrow My Escapes (Diagram/New Michigan, 2019), Personal Science (Tupelo Press, 2016), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press, 2016), and But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012). Their next book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press.
Drew Calvert’s writing has appeared in Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, Commonweal, and other publications. His awards include an Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, and a Fulbright grant for creative writing. Calvert is at work on a book of short stories and a novel.
Laura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad (Poetry Society of America, 2020), winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2021–22 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cresté has poems in and forthcoming from The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review’s Poem of the Week series, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from New York University.
Sophia Emmons-Bell is an MFA candidate at the Michener Center for Writers. She is from Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in The Harvard Advocate.
Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is a winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lannan Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Granta, Iowa Review, FIELD, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social justice philanthropy.
JP Grasser, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, holds a PhD from the University of Utah. He lives in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and serves as an associate editor for 32 Poems.
Andrew Hemmert is the author of Sawgrass Sky (Texas Review Press, 2021). His poems have appeared and are forthcoming in various magazines, including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. Hemmert won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest. He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently serves as a poetry editor for Driftwood Press.
Stories by Thomas Israel Hopkins have appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Cincinnati Review, Fence, and One Story, among other publications. A chapbook of his short fiction, What I Remember of My Love Affair with the Bird and Other Stories, was published by the Cupboard Pamphlet in 2020. Hopkins lives in Oberlin, Ohio, with his wife and their two sons.
Rochelle Hurt is the author of three poetry collections, including The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022). Her work has been included in Poetry magazine and the Best New Poets anthology. She’s been awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Hurt lives in Orlando and teaches at the University of Central Florida.
Myra Kamal is a Pakistani American writer, currently residing in Phoenix. She serves as the 2021–22 Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate. Kamal is the founder and editor in chief of the youth literary magazine the borderline. She has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and National YoungArts and is an alum of the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. Her work is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal.
Peter LaBerge is the founder and editor in chief of The Adroit Journal, as well as an MFA candidate and a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at New York University. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, New England Review, Pleiades, and Tin House, among others.
Sena Moon is the recipient of the 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and second-place winner of the 2021 CRAFT First Chapters Contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, Quarterly West, and The Fiddlehead. She earned her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Moon hails from Seoul.
A writer from West Virginia, Matthew Neill Null is author of the novel Honey from the Lion (Lookout Books, 2015) and the story collection Allegheny Front (Sarabande Books, 2016). He has received the O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the Michener-Copernicus Fellowships, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, Null is at work on a novel.
Alison Powell is a poet, lyric essayist, and scholar. Her second collection of poetry, Boats in the Attic, won the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize and is forthcoming from Fordham University Press; she is also the author of The Art of Perpetuation (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and On the Desire to Levitate (Ohio University Press, 2014). Powell is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oakland University and lives with her husband, son, and daughter in metro Detroit.
Marney Rathbun is a substance abuse counselor and high school teacher in Massachusetts. Rathbun’s writing has been featured in Salt Hill Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, and The Fourth River, and in their chapbook I call my father by his name (Jubilat, 2016). Rathbun is at work on a first collection.
Dan Rosenberg’s most recent collection of poems is Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022). His work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Conduit, The Adroit Journal, and Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets. An associate professor of English at Wells College, he lives in Ithaca, New York.
Callie Siskel is the author of Arctic Revival (Poetry Society of America, 2022), winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and other journals. She is a 2020–22 Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.
Tan Tuck Ming is a writer and an MFA graduate of the University of Iowa. Born in Singapore and raised in New Zealand, Tan explores in his work the shifting structure of the family, especially in the context of migration, displacement, and welfare. His writing has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Speculative Nonfiction, Fence, and other publications.
Jeff Whitney’s most recent collection, Sixteen Stories, is forthcoming from Flume Press. His recent poems can be found or found soon in The Adroit Journal, Cherry Tree, Poetry Northwest, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. Whitney lives in Portland.
Adam Wilson is the author of three books including, most recently, the novel Sensation Machines (Soho Press, 2020). A National Jewish Book Award finalist and a recipient of The Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize, Wilson has had his work published in Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories, among many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two sons.
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
Madison Xu is a student at Horace Mann School in New York City. She has been recognized by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Apprentice Writers, and The New York Times. In her free time, she likes to read, ski, and bake.
On the Cover
Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate, and educator. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Seaberry first came to Providence, Rhode Island, to attend Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Alongside his art, he built a career as a grassroots organizer, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including Probation Reform and the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill, as well as laying the groundwork for the Ban the Box movement in Rhode Island.
Seaberry serves as Codirector of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a people-powered nonprofit agency, and most recently worked as Director of Public Policy at the Nonviolence Institute. He serves as Chairman of the Providence Board of Canvassers, overseeing the city’s elections; as Board Member at New Urban Arts in Providence; and as Board Member for Protect Families First, working on community-oriented drug policy reform. He has received fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation and the Rhode Island Foundation, and recently served as Community Leader Fellow at Roger Williams University School of Law.
Seaberry maintains a painting studio in Providence and has displayed works at such institutions as the RISD Museum, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Boston Center for the Arts, and exhibition spaces in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
The Birth Partner
2019
67 x 48 in.
Acrylic and mixed media on unstretched canvas