An Interview with Aaron Angello Patrick Parks Photo Credit: @michaelmasonstudios Aaron Angello is a poet, playwright, and essayist from the Rocky Mountains who lives and feels remarkably out of place in the charming, but very Eastern, town of Frederick, Maryland. He received his MFA and PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder, and he currently teaches writing and theater at Hood College. As part of a creative writing class that focused on process rather than product, Aaro

"About the Work" with Stevie Edwards In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Stevie Edwards's poem, “Some Lines for the Looming Apocalypse," in SER Vol. 40.1. I began drafting “Some Lines for the Looming Apocalypse” in April 2020. Like many people, I spent April 2020 in full quarantine mode and was overwhelmed by the uncertainty over how COVID-19 would affect my life,

"About the Work" with Siavash Saadlou In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Siavash Saadlou's essay, “My Mom Told Me," in SER Vol. 40.1. In 2018, my then-five-year-old niece was giving me a quick tour of their remodeled house in Shiraz when she pointed at a framed photograph of my dad on one of the walls and said, in her innocently homespun verbiage, “That one is my

Finna by Nino Cipri Sierra Biggs Finding an elderly grandmother who’s lost in a furniture store should be easy, right? Well, maybe not if the furniture is actually alive and capitalism itself is out to get you. Nino Cipri’s Finna is a punchy, romantically adventurous, queer novella designed to poke fun at the boredoms of everyday life. This 2020 work wastes no time pushing the reader, quite literally, into another dimension, as this science fiction-fantasy work never pauses f