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Cover Art: "Ra’Lasia Wright" by Tai Ericson

About the Cover Art

"Ra’Lasia Wright" by Tai Ericson is part of a series of portraits honoring transgender people impacted by violence—constructed from the pages of Harry Potter books. Ericson says, "The author of those books has contributed purposefully and relentlessly to a culture that vilifies and endangers trans people around the world. The portrait destroys her work, replacing it with a memorial to someone that lost their life to the culture fostered by the author."

Ra’Lasia Wright was a 25-year-old Black Latina transgender woman of Puerto Rican descent who loved her friends and family, as reported by the Human Rights Campaign. Camilla Lieng, a friend of Ra’Lasia, described her as being “outgoing and protective.” Ra’Lasia was born in Gary, Indiana, and her family later relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota around when she was 10-years-old. On November 30, 2024, Ra'Lasia was found killed. Her death was at least the 31st transgender or gender-expansive person killed in the United States in 2024.

Tai Ericson is a multimedia sculptural artist, transforming the familiar into the unexpected. By amassing everyday objects, often in monumental quantities, he crafts objects that tell one story from afar, then reveal their true identity up close. His studio is in Bellows Falls, Vermont. You can see more of his work at www.ericsonarts.com or by following him at @ericson.arts.

Contributors

T Bambrick, nicole v basta, Jo Bear, Connor Beeman, Luis Carlos Barragán Castro, plum.e champlin, Alana Craib, Lily Daly, isaac dwyer, Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez, Tai Ericson, Shelley Ettinger, Blue Fay, Noa Micaela Fields, Ella Hormel, Rose Jenny, Louie Leyson, Parker Logan, Jennifer Love, Alec Evan March, Rebecca Morton, b mossotti, Magenta Naaku, Blue Nguyen, Jae Nichelle, Gwendolyn Paradice, Artie Patel, caroline ganci patterson, Damon Pham, m. mick powell, Eli V. Rahm, Gaia Rajan, Jake Rose, Laurel Roth, frank kensaku saragosa, Lauren Saxon, Razi Shadmehry, D. M. Spratley, Mae Juniper Stokes, Eden Julia Sugay, Will Summay, M. Sun, Disha Trivedi, Ashley Varela, Michael Walsh, Reo Wang, and Christian Yeo Xuan.

GUEST EDITORS

Edgar Gomez

Guest Hybrid & Nonfiction Editor

Edgar Gomez (he/they) is is a queer NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual, winner of the American Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Their sophomore memoir, Alligator Tears, was released February 2025 and called "triumphant, dazzling, and unfailingly stylish" by Publisher's Weekly. Gomez lives between New York and Puerto Rico.

Charlotte Joyce Kidd

Guest Fiction Editor

Charlotte Joyce Kidd is a writer of all kinds of prose and public librarian based in Toronto, Ontario. She is Associate Prose Editor at Chestnut Review. She is most interested in stories about complex familial, romantic, or platonic relationships, unique and thoughtful prose, and original treatment of topics like climate change and economic injustice -- but she is also a literary omnivore who can find something to love in almost any piece of prose.

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

Guest Poetry Editor

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and their previously published works include: The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame Press, 2019), Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024), Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2025), Wayward Creatures (Host Publications, 2025), and the forthcoming Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric (Milkweed editions, 2026). They live in southern California.