Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti Liesel Hamilton When you open Anjali Enjeti’s Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, these are the first words that you will encounter—these are the words that will guide you through pages of personal essay and narrative journalism. They are words that shape Enjeti’s life and her experience as a Southern, multiracial woman, but, as these are questions about identity, they

"About the Work" with Nadia Shahbaz In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Nadia Shahbaz's story, “Immigrant Making Art Origin Story," in SER Vol. 39.2. My essay “Immigrant Making Art Origin Story” began many years ago in a more traditional story structure. I was trying to explore how “arriving” forms a part of my American identity—that notion of my family needing to

"About the Work" with Hannah V Warren In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Hannah V. Warren's poem, “Let Us Have Our Own Suffering," in SER Vol. 39.2. At its core, “Let Us Have Our Own Suffering” germinates from my obsession with how women experience/suffer/embrace Southern Gothic landscapes—both cultural & natural. Right now, I’m writing poems from the collective w