When the train came, I got on and looked back at the blank stretch of tiles. Maybe if I stayed underground long enough, the city would look beautiful again when I came back up.

—Becky Blake, “Excerpt: Proof I Was Here”

Featured Writers

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From the archives

Works to Watch For

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  The Shaytan Sumaiya Matin

  Dundurn Press

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  Two Times Removed by Tiara Jade Chutkhan

  Independently Published

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  Pull Focus by Helen Walsh

  ECW Press

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  Care Of by Ivan Coyote

  Penguin Random House

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  Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali

  Milkweed

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  Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng

  Simon & Schuster