![]() Violeta lives with her husband and three children in western Pennsylvania. “My goal as a writer,” says Melody Gee, “is to find ways where language intersects, complicates, and gives new meaning to the various parts of my identity and world: motherhood, adoption, immigration, education, bilingualism, and religious conversion.” We loved her essay, “Language Learners,” which untangles and illuminates all these threads. The author of three collections of poetry, Melody lives with her family in St. ![]() In Our Tía’s Tortillas, children learn the many variations of one simple snack Guava Jam offers a sweetly rhyming exploration of the delicious fruit and the lovely Good Night Shift explores a child’s feelings of sadness and pride about her mother’s work. We all delighted in Romy Natalia Goldberg’s picture books, which are charming, relatable, and warm. Romy lives with her family in College Station, Texas. Patrice Gopo aims “to write everyday stories centered around Black children, celebrating their joys and normalizing childhood across race.” We loved the focus on food and family rituals in her lyrical books. Raised by her Jamaican immigrant parents in Alaska, Patrice now lives with her family in North Carolina. Is a thing the husbands have never said.”Ģ019 Finalist Rebecca Hazelton delighted us with excerpts from her work in progress, a collection of poems exploring American masculinity and the role of the “husband” in contemporary marriage. The author of three previous books of poetry, Rebecca lives with her family in Illinois. There’s nothing wrong here: this is just the way my body works.”Īubrey Hirsch shared an excerpt from her graphic memoir-in-progress, Heart/Sick, a beautifully-drawn, timely, compelling, and infuriating exploration of her experience with unexplained illness and the medical establishment. ![]() Aubrey lives with her family in New York. Thomas Holton is a photographer who impressed us with a series of sensitive portraits of a family in New York’s Chinatown whom Holton has known and photographed for nearly 20 years. They are intimate without being voyeuristic, creating a moving and empathetic record of stay-at-home life during the pandemic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. In Kristen Iskandrian’s story, “Picnic, Ocean, Hatred,” we meet a woman consumed by grief for her daughter who has drowned, until that grief takes a surprising and supernatural turn.
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