Jennifer M. Colatosti lives in Pine Lake, Georgia. She is Assistant Professor of English at Perimeter College at Georgia State University, where she co-chairs the Revival: Lost Southern Voices literary festival. Her fiction and nonfiction have also appeared in The MacGuffin, Sequestrum, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, The Intentional, and Midwestern Gothic. Colatosti's nonfiction, “Revolution,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 33.1. Revolution ju

Meg Wolitzer. The Female Persuasion. Riverhead Books, 2018. $28.00. In her 2018 novel The Female Persuasion, best-selling writer Meg Wolitzer offers a story mixing coming-of-age, loss of a family member, and women’s struggle to find what the novel calls an “outside voice”—a voice to make themselves heard in a patriarchal society. The novel shares its title with the character Faith Frank’s early feminist work, which propels the book. It follows three individuals from the next

Listen to Misha Rai reading at the Jerome Stern Distinguished Writers Series.

Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and The Classroom (Gold Wake Press, 2019). Her chapbook, TV Girls, won the 2017-2018 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest. Dana earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at Susquehanna University. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Booth, Passages North, and elsewhere. She lives in Tucson. Dana Diehl’s chapbook, TV Girls, recently released from New Delta R

Sari Boren’s essays have been published in Copper Nickel, Lilith Magazine, Alimentum, Hobart, and Pangyrus, among others. She teaches creative nonfiction at Grub Street and co-manages Boston’s Four Stories reading series. Sari is also a museum exhibit developer who’s written exhibit text for dozens of museums across the country. Read more at: sariboren.com Boren's nonfiction, “Something Like That. Like Nothing,” was originally published in The Southeast Review Volume 33.2. So

This Review was written by Peter Fontaine and was featured in The Southeast Review Vol. 29.2. Alissa Nutting. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. Starcherone Books, 2010. $18.00. Alissa Nutting’s debut collection of short fiction, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, looks and feels very much like a concept book. There is no title story to be found within. Instead, the title indicates what these collected stories have in common, why they have all been brought together in one volum

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Parthenogenesis Envy these female hammerheads: how they swim in purified fields, pregnant by salt or ocean without contact with males. Link and lock that warmth. No tepid waters. No freeze. Immaculate. I am fertile as loam and no one braves me – oh, flesh of flesh of bone of blood and someone was inside me but I remain terrible I remain empty. The roots of parthenogenesis are “virgin” and “creation” – spiders, snails, scorpions love themselves, love their bodies, rapture, rup

The Clearing What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops teeth, her own, what else does she have, and the prince or woodcutter or brother or man musty with beard and thick in the pants collects the teeth with a wide rustic hand holds their gray roots to a nostril to smell the fresh feminine rot, fingers the bony stems of her fear, born of watered-down broths, of motherlessness, of an owl’s sharp beak crooking back around into itself? The wolf licks his parts with a san

Maria Adelmann's novel, AFTERMATH, which reimagines fairy tale characters as modern American women in a support group for trauma, is forthcoming from Little, Brown, who will also publish her short story collection, GIRLS OF CERTAIN AGE. Her fiction has been published by Tin House, the Indiana Review, The Threepenny Review, and Epoch, among others. She lives in Baltimore, MD. Her website is www.mariaink.com. Elegy Age 35. With them absent now for years you find yourself standi