Juan Cruz :: A Morning in Bogotá ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I moved to the US when I was in my twenties. I lived in South Carolina for almost a decade. I earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of...
Kay Jenkins :: Marie Margan ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Not a bone in my body is non-southern. Brought up by my grandparents, whose people spent a hundred and fifty years moving south from the Northern Neck of Virginia through North and South Carolina. Finally, in the...
Amita Basu :: Escape Plan ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Here in South India, filter coffee is the norm. This is not just a method of brewing coffee — using a pair of cylindrical steel vessels, the top vessel containing a filter — but also a type...
John Frame :: A Real Job ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent a year living in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1996 and 1997, teaching at UNC-Charlotte and conducting historical research with the help of scholarships from Nations Bank and the St. Andrew’s Society of North Carolina. There...
Monica Viera :: Fighting the Death Instinct ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Monica Viera lived in the 7th ward in New Orleans after getting accepted into a writing commune. She lived in a shotgun house and warded off crackheads on her walk to work in the French Quarter. Fighting...
Janie Borisov :: The Islands of Weed and Mushrooms ::
*Hello hello! So I live in Australia, south of just about everywhere (aka the Butt of the World). Having spent the bulk of my adult years travelling, I like to muse about my wanderings. This piece is about the southernmost...
Eddie Black :: Tailgates and Tomatoes ::
I come from a place where you save leftover fat in a coffee can for biscuits or eggs or a gravy base. I come from a place where men go from one mother to another right after high-school and where...
Hold on, I’m coming…
Seriously, the February issue will happen. Almost there, a few edits and sparkles. Meanwhile, how’s the weather? Talk amongst yourselves.
Chaz Lilly :: Holding Water ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Florida, raised in Georgia and migrated to East Texas for a spell. I’ve worked in the Arklamiss at UL Monroe and now reside in North Georgia. I have a tattoo of a frog with a...
Anne Anthony :: The Bingo Ladies ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though when she engages you in conversation it’s clear she was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. Still, if she’s reading you her stories, sometimes her voice slides into the gentle sway...
C. C. Evans :: Gladys’s Girls ::
C. C. Evans is a Southern-based educator who grew up in Florida. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in Cathexis Northwest Press, Visit Florida, Hii Magazine, and Choeofpleirn Press, amongst others. She’s a fan of the comma splice....
Margaret Donovan Bauer :: Ted’s Push ::
Southern legitimacy statement: As I tell my students, I am from as far South as you can get: Franklin, Louisiana is at the bottom of the state. I grew up on the Bayou Teche there, in a plantation house my...
Landon Whitley :: Three Poems ::
SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATMENT: Landon Whitley was born in North Carolina in 1996, just like The Dead Mule. Over twenty seven years, he saw Union County turn from the home of duck-tape bandaids to the county with the highest average income...
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