Food

Jenn Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize) and Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Series, University of Arkansas Press). Her…

When I was growing up, my family celebrated Fat Tuesday by attending an all-you-can-eat pancake dinner in the basement of a nearby Episcopal church. “They’re practically Catholic,” my father would…

Denice Frohman is an award-winning poet, writer, performer, and educator. She is a 2014 CantoMundo Fellow, 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, 2013 Hispanic Choice Award winner, and…

Summers in Progreso are hot, blistering months. Pregnant with desperation, they swell during the beginning weeks, then ooze and burst at the season’s end. It was raining when we returned…

Clint Smith is a writer and doctoral candidate at Harvard University and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the National Science Foundation. He is a 2014…

Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, which won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as…

I arrived in Rome at the end of a hot June, to study Italian for a month the summer between my junior and senior years of college. I hadn’t brought…

Rachel Mennies is the author of The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. She…

Alok Vaid-Menon is a nonbinary writer, performance artist, and solidarity activist with a lot of feelings. Alok has organized with racial, economic, and gender justice movements across the world. Their creative…

A Campus Pride Hot List artist, Trans Justice Funding Project Panelist, and Trans 100 Honoree, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, performer, and educator, navigating life as a disabled pin@y-amerikan…

I bake Tiramisu Cupcakes for the housewarming of my new home in Reno, Nevada. Realize there’s an essay under the frosting when I spy the red welt between my breasts.…

Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and five chapbooks, including recently, Security Theater(Present Tense Pamphlets, 2016). His poems can or will be found in Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies.…

C. James Bye is the Editor-in-Chief and of Knee-Jerk Magazine and co-editor, with his wife, of the anthology, The Way We Sleep. He received an MFA in Writing from Columbia College…

I teach a course for graduate students in Creative Writing and Food Studies called “The Literary Cookbook.” Not wanting to take anything for granted, I begin every class with a…